I Might Be a Goody Two-Shoes, but at Least I Have a Job! An Examination of the Correlates of Following Institutional Rules Among Texas Prison Guards
I Might Be a Goody Two-Shoes, but at Least I Have a Job! An Examination of the Correlates of Following Institutional Rules Among Texas Prison Guards
Robert M. WorleyEric G. LambertVidisha Barua Worleya Lamar University, Beaumont, USb Indiana University Northwest, Gary, USRobert M. Worley, Ph.D., is Professor of Criminal Justice at Lamar University, Beaumont, Texas. Robert has published extensively on “inappropriate relationships” that occur between inmates and correctional officers. He has been interviewed by Reuters, the New York Times, the Houston Chronicle, the Dallas Morning News, and the Marshall Project, as well as other media outlets. Robert is Co-editor (with Vidisha Barua Worley) of the Encyclopedia of American Prisons and Jails (ABC-Clio). He recently served as an expert witness for the plaintiffs in Eddy v. City and County of Denver, Denver Sheriff’s Department, a federal case that was settled out of court ($1.55 M). Robert’s work has appeared in journals, such as, Deviant Behavior, Criminal Law Bulletin, American Journal of Criminal Justice, Journal of Criminal Justice Education, and Criminal Justice Review, among others. Robert is currently an Associate Editor of Deviant Behavior and the Book Review Editor of Theory in Action. In 2019, Robert won the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences’ Historical Mini-Grant Award ($5,000).Eric G. Lambert is Professor and Chairperson of the Department of Criminal Justice. His research interests include criminal justice organizational issues, the effectiveness of correctional interventions, organizational effects on the attitudes, intentions, and behaviors of criminal justice employees, capital punishment attitudes and views, and the international perceptions, attitudes, and views on criminal justice issues and punishment. Dr. Lambert has published articles in The Prison Journal, Security Journal, Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice, International Criminal Justice Review, Criminal Justice and Behavior, and Punishment and Society, among othersVidisha Barua Worley, Ph.D., Esquire, is Professor of Criminal Justice and Director of Strategic Planning for the Center for Death Penalty Studies at Lamar University, Beaumont, Texas. Vidisha is also a former contributing editor and columnist with the Criminal Law Bulletin (January 2010 to December 2013); founding member of the Institute for Legal Studies in Criminal Justice, Sam Houston State University; Associate Book Review Editor of Theory in Action; and Co-editor of the Encyclopedia of American Prisons and Jails (ABC-Clio). Vidisha is a licensed attorney in India and New York. She was a journalist in India for six years and worked at three national dailies, The Asian Age, Business Standard, and The Financial Express, respectively. Vidisha presented a paper on intellectual disability and the death penalty at the Oxford Round Table, Oxford University, England in March 2010. Professor Worley’s research areas include police and prison officers’ liabilities for the use of tasers and stun guns, the death penalty, prison rape, correctional officer deviance, inappropriate relationships between inmates and correctional officers, cyberbullying and sexting, ethical issues in criminal justice, and terrorism. Her published books include Press and Media Law Manual (2002) and Terrorism in India (2006).