TY - JOUR
T1 - The professional identity of juridical-educational professionals in prison
AU - Accordini, Monica
AU - Saita, Emanuela
PY - 2018
Y1 - 2018
N2 - The organizational changes that occurred within the Italian prison system led to profound modifications in the way juridical–educational professionals (JEPs) working in prison perceive themselves and their role. The present study aims at exploring the representations of their professional identity in two groups of JEPs working in as many correctional facilities in Italy. To reach this goal, the JEPs taking part to the research were administered the Symbolic Drawing of the Organizational Life Space, a graphic symbolic tool useful to understand the main features, values, and culture of an organization. The analysis was performed on the drawings made by the JEPs along with the transcriptions of their discourses while performing the task. The outcomes, presented in a previous study published in Narrare I Gruppi call for a further, in depth, analysis of the JEPs discourses, therefore the present study focuses on such transcripts. This article aims at inves- tigating the specific values connected to the JEPs’ professional role while exam- ining the differences in the representations and perceptions of the professionals working in the two facilities. Results show that professional identities are struc- tured around organizational values, stemming from local cultures, while more global values, shared among members of a professional category, seem to have lost their cohesive power.
AB - The organizational changes that occurred within the Italian prison system led to profound modifications in the way juridical–educational professionals (JEPs) working in prison perceive themselves and their role. The present study aims at exploring the representations of their professional identity in two groups of JEPs working in as many correctional facilities in Italy. To reach this goal, the JEPs taking part to the research were administered the Symbolic Drawing of the Organizational Life Space, a graphic symbolic tool useful to understand the main features, values, and culture of an organization. The analysis was performed on the drawings made by the JEPs along with the transcriptions of their discourses while performing the task. The outcomes, presented in a previous study published in Narrare I Gruppi call for a further, in depth, analysis of the JEPs discourses, therefore the present study focuses on such transcripts. This article aims at inves- tigating the specific values connected to the JEPs’ professional role while exam- ining the differences in the representations and perceptions of the professionals working in the two facilities. Results show that professional identities are struc- tured around organizational values, stemming from local cultures, while more global values, shared among members of a professional category, seem to have lost their cohesive power.
KW - Italian penitentiary system
KW - Prison
KW - Italian penitentiary system
KW - Prison
UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10807/132512
U2 - 10.1080/02604027.2018.1445909
DO - 10.1080/02604027.2018.1445909
M3 - Article
SN - 0260-4027
SP - 1
EP - 13
JO - World Futures
JF - World Futures
ER -