Correctional Officers Who Have Higher Levels of Job Satisfaction and Adopt

question 76

True/False

Correctional officers who have higher levels of job satisfaction and adopt a more punitive or custodial orientation toward inmates are more successful in gaining inmate compliance than officers demonstrating other interpersonal authority roles.

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