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International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology
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Correctional Officers: How Do They Perceive Sex Offenders?

John R. Weekes, Ph.D.

Research and Statistics Branch Correctional Service of Canada 340 Laurier Avenue West Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0P9 CANADA

Guy Pelletier, Ph.D.

Department of Psychology Correctional Service of Canada Drumheller Institution Box 3000 Drumheller, Alberta TOJ 0Y0 CANADA

Daniel Beaudette, M.A.

Department of Psychology Correctional Service of Canada Stony Mountain Institution Box 4500 Winnipeg, Manitoba R3C 3W8 CANADA

A sample of 82 correctional officers from two Canadian federal institutions rated their perceptions of three offender groups: sex offenders against women, sex offenders against children, and non-sex offenders, using a 19-item perceptions scale. Sex offenders, in general, were perceived to be more dangerous, harmful, violent, tense, bad, unpredictable, mysterious, unchangeable, aggressive, weak, irrational, and afraid compared with non-sex offenders. Sex offenders against children were perceived as significantly more immoral and mentally ill than sex offenders against women, who, in turn, were perceived to be more immoral and mentally ill than non-sex offenders. Training and offender management implications are briefly discussed.

International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology, Vol. 39, No. 1, 55-61 (1995)
DOI: 10.1177/0306624X9503900107
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