Role Exit in Prison Officers av Sarah Nixon, Darren Woodward

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<p>Role Exit Within Prison Officers: Returning to ¿Civvy Street¿ explores the reasons why prison officers leave His Majesty¿s Prison and Probation Service (HMPPS) England and Wales and examines the processes and trajectories involved in returning back to civilian life, which is referred to as ¿civvy street¿.</p><p>Writing from their experiences as ex-prison officers now working in academia, the authors draw upon ¿insider¿ positionality of their own ex-prison officer narratives, which has shaped and developed their research design. They also employ interview data collected from other ex-prison officers to identify the rewards and challenges of working within a prison environment, with Ebaugh¿s (1988) role exit theory serving as a theoretical framework to offer an original approach to understanding the lived experience of prison officers who leave the service. The authors address issues including the impact of austerity, Voluntary Early Departure Scheme (VEDS), the decline in transmissio