Job Profile of Correctional Officers The job profile of correctional officers includes security and inmate accountability. They are responsible for preventing disturbances, physical attacks, and escapes by the prisoners or inmates. The job profile of correctional officers can make them both sympathetic as well as hateful towards victims. They may be sympathetic because they deal with perpetrators who have been victimized. In this context, do you think it is essential to educate correctional officers on the field of victimology? The study of why certain people are victims of crime is known as victimology. It also includes the study of how lifestyle makes certain people more susceptible to be victims. Author Susan Sontag wrote the following quotation on victims: "Victims suggest innocence. And innocence, by the inexorable logic that governs all relational terms, suggests guilt" Is the quotation in the context of the study of victimology, acceptable? Why? Have you witnessed any situations in your life that would support or rebut this quotation? Provide two such instances from your personal life to substantiate your agreement or disagreement. Can officers working with the same criminal populations have differing views on victims? Can victimologists help correctional officers or do victimologists and correctional officers form an unnatural team? Why? Support your rationale with research-based examples or real-life experiences. .

1. Job Profile of Correctional Officers
The job profile of correctional officers includes security and
inmate accountability. They are responsible for preventing
disturbances, physical attacks, and escapes by the prisoners or
inmates. The job profile of correctional officers can make them
both sympathetic as well as hateful towards victims. They may
be sympathetic because they deal with perpetrators who have
been victimized.
In this context, do you think it is essential to educate
correctional officers on the field of victimology? The study of
why certain people are victims of crime is known as
victimology. It also includes the study of how lifestyle makes
certain people more susceptible to be victims. Author Susan
Sontag wrote the following quotation on victims: "Victims
suggest innocence. And innocence, by the inexorable logic that
governs all relational terms, suggests guilt"
Is the quotation in the context of the study of victimology,
acceptable? Why? Have you witnessed any situations in your
life that would support or rebut this quotation? Provide two
such instances from your personal life to substantiate your
agreement or disagreement.
Can officers working with the same criminal populations have
differing views on victims? Can victimologists help correctional
officers or do victimologists and correctional officers form an
unnatural team? Why? Support your rationale with research-
based examples or real-life experiences.