Prisoners’ willingness to approach prison officers for support

Journal of Offender Rehabilitation

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 33-46

  Dear, Greg E ^a   Beers, Kelly A ^a,b   Dastyar, Gita ^a,c   Hall, Flynn ^a   Kordanovski, Beti ^a   Pritchard, Elizabeth C ^a,d  

^a EDITH COWAN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b Hepatitis C Council of WA   (United States)

^c Education Department of Western Australia   (Australia)

^d Australian Customs Service   (Australia)

Author keywords

Coping with prison; Prison administration; Prison guards; Prisoners; Social support; Unit management

Indexed keywords

EID: 85009597082     PISSN: 10509674     EISSN: 15408558     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1300/J076v34n04_02     Document Type: Article

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