Chapter 9 of your textbook identifies eight correctional officer personalities. These include:
- The dictator.
- The friend.
- The merchant.
- The turnkey.
- The climber.
- The reformer.
- The do-gooder.
- The problem correctional officer (Schmalleger. 2021).
For the purpose of this discussion post, you are to imagine yourself as a correctional officer.
Please respond to the following in a substantive post:
- Which of these correctional officer personalities do you think best describes the role you would assume on the job? How so?
- If none of these personalities applies to you, what personality would best describe you if you were serving as a correctional officer?
- What strengths would your personality type bring to the job?
- Be sure to provide specifics.
- How could your personality type hinder your effectiveness as a correctional officer?
- Be sure to provide specifics.
- How could you counterbalance some of these hindrances?