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JOURNAL OF HUMAN BEHAVIOR IN THE SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT
Volume 20, Issue 6, Pages 762-777Publisher
ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/10911351003749169
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Correctional officers; police officers; organizational stress; operational stress; domestic violence; law enforcement
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New data from a prevention curriculum project on officer-involved domestic violence reveals significant differences in the reported job stress of Florida's correctional officers when compared to police officers who took the same surveys. The significantly higher reported levels of organizational stress in particular-especially those related to staff and resource shortages and attitudes about leadership-raise concerns about the relationship between organizational stress and the reported drastic budget cuts, hiring freezes, and layoffs experienced by the Department of Corrections in 2009. The surprising disparity has significant implications for policy makers, who should be aware of the high cost of stress in officer health and well-being when making budgetary decisions about the state's rapidly increasing inmate population.
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