1. Introduction.- PART I: Prison Officer Interpretations and Performances of Power and Authority.- 2. The moral value of authority: Reflections on the work of prison officers.- 3. Ukrainian prison officers and their power.- 4. French prison officers' legal socialization: 'The law, yes; prisoners' rights, no'.- 5. Proxy governance in (post) colonial prisons: When prison officers delegate power to prisoners.- PART II: Prison Officer Identities and Workplace Cultures.- 6. Dirty work and beyond: Representations of Prison Officers in Prison Films.- 7. "It's a very clannish type of job": Entitativity and identity in prison officers' occupational cultures and identities.- 8. 'Friendly but not friends' or 'Never trust the bastards'? Staff-prisoner interaction styles in Australia and Norway. 9. "It is important to be a prison officer and have trade union back up": Exploring trade union membership within the Scottish Prison Service.- 10. The prison officer in post-soviet Russia.- PART III: Implications of Prison Policy and Management for the Role of Prison Officers.- 11. "Prison officers should be treated fairly": Perceptions and experiences of fairness among prison officers in Ghana.- 12. Do risk-reducing measures only reduce risk? Prison officer work with risk-reducing measures in the imprisonment of a high-risk prisoner.- 13. Farewell to exceptionalism: An analysis of Swedish prisons officers' attitudes towards prison policy, organisation, and their occupational role in 2009 and 2019.- 14. The role of prison officers in transforming prisoners' lives in Hong Kong.- 15. Locating Prison Officers in the prison reforms discourse: Insights from India.- PART IV: Working Conditions and Prison Officer Well-Being.- 16. The well-being of correctional officers in Canada.- 17. Fear and perceived risk among correctional officers.- 18. Prison Officers and their Work Routine in Brazilian Prisons.- 19. Conclusion: Towards a new research agenda to analyse the contemporary prison officer role.
