text: By: Mary Ann Farkas
  Keywords:correctional officers; duties; duty; prisoners
  Correctional officers perform a variety of duties and may work in the state or federal correctional system or work as a sheriff deputy or jail officer in the county jail system. This entry focuses on the occupational duties of the state correctional officers since custodial workers at the state level constitute the bulk of correctional employees. A brief overview of correctional officers, their rank structure, academy training, and some of the primary characteristics of correctional works are discussed. The duties of correctional officers and their underlying purposes are then described in some detail, followed by a discussion of occupational stress.
  Correctional officers may be of either gender, but are predominantly male, and typically work at the [Page 194]more common correctional facilities for men. Correctional line officers ...
  Farkas, M. (2019). Correctional officers, occupational duties of. In R. Morgan (Ed.), The SAGE encyclopedia of criminal psychology (Vol. 1, pp. 194-196). SAGE Publications, Inc., https://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781483392240.n70
  Farkas, Mary Ann. "Correctional Officers, Occupational Duties of." In The SAGE Encyclopedia of Criminal Psychology, edited by Morgan, Robert D., 194-96. Thousand Oaks,, CA: SAGE Publications, Inc., 2019. https://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781483392240.n70.
  Farkas, M. 2019. Correctional Officers, Occupational Duties of. In: Robert D. Morgan Editor, 2019. The SAGE Encyclopedia of Criminal Psychology, Thousand Oaks,, CA: SAGE Publications, Inc. pp. 194-196 Available at: <https://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781483392240.n70> [Accessed 20 May 2022].
  Farkas, Mary Ann. "Correctional Officers, Occupational Duties of." The SAGE Encyclopedia of Criminal Psychology. Edited by Robert D. Morgan. Vol. 1. Thousand Oaks,: SAGE Publications, Inc., 2019, pp. 194-96. SAGE Knowledge. 20 May 2022, doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781483392240.n70.