Prisons Sometimes Have Difficulty in Recruiting Correctional Officers

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Essay

Prisons sometimes have difficulty in recruiting correctional officers. What factors keep people from applying for jobs as officers in correctional facilities?

Explore the role of gender as an integral feature of organizational life.

Understand the concept and implications of hostile work environments based on sex or sexuality.

Learn about historical shifts in male self-presentation and the creation of related derogatory terms.

Understand the influence of gender on professional and work-related contexts.

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Definitions:

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Supporters of a theory in sociology and anthropology that interprets society as a structure with interrelated parts designed to meet the biological and social needs of individuals that make up that society.

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