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Exploring why prison officers leave His Majestyâs Prison and Probation Service (HMPPS) and the processes and trajectories involved in returning to âcivilian lifeâ, this book examines the reasons that prison officers want to leave HMPPS and how they transition back to âcivvy streetâ.

As well as presenting qualitative data from interviews with ex-prison officers, the authors also draw analytically on their âinsiderâ positionality to offer insights on the lived experience of prison officers both in the role and on their subsequent departure from the service. In doing so, they identify the rewards and challenges of working in a prison environment, while using Ebaughâs (1988) four-stage model of role exit as a theoretical framework to help understand the process of leaving the prison service. Among the issues addressed are the impact of austerity, the Voluntary Early Departure Scheme, the decline in transmission of knowledge (âjail craftâ) to new recruits, high staff turnover, incr

Role Exit in Prison Officers

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      Publisher Taylor & Francis
      Published 12/30/2024
      ISBN-13 9781032049519
      978-1032049519
      ISBN-10 1032049510
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      Law Criminal justice law

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      Book Synopsis

      Exploring why prison officers leave His Majestyâs Prison and Probation Service (HMPPS) and the processes and trajectories involved in returning to âcivilian lifeâ, this book examines the reasons that prison officers want to leave HMPPS and how they transition back to âcivvy streetâ.

      As well as presenting qualitative data from interviews with ex-prison officers, the authors also draw analytically on their âinsiderâ positionality to offer insights on the lived experience of prison officers both in the role and on their subsequent departure from the service. In doing so, they identify the rewards and challenges of working in a prison environment, while using Ebaughâs (1988) four-stage model of role exit as a theoretical framework to help understand the process of leaving the prison service. Among the issues addressed are the impact of austerity, the Voluntary Early Departure Scheme, the decline in transmission of knowledge (âjail craftâ) to new recruits, high staff turnover, incr

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