Criminal Psychology

The Pennsylvania Department of Corrections has many many threats to consider when operating its day to day activities. These threats include everything from internal threats due to inmate actions to external threats from items being smuggled in through e intra state inmate laundry services. In order to address these threats, the state is in a constant situation where it is perpetually evaluating its operations and updating them based on new regulations from the governor and from its own lessons learned. For the sake of this book report I am going to focus on the employees and inmates as internal threats to the institution. It may be a bit hard to realize it, but in any business or government agency, employees can constitute a large percentage of the threats. The threats can range anywhere from simple theft of office supplies to in the case of the department of corrections, the smuggling in of cellphone which can result in the continued harassment of inmate victims as a result of social networking media like Facebook or twitter.
While working at a prison there is a large amount of internal threats caused by inmates and disobedient employees. The first threat I would consider is the introduction of illegal substances. The reasons employees bring in illegal substances are numerous. It can be for the promise of money, the promise of preferred treatment by inmates, or even through blackmail if you do something for an inmate and he threatens to turn you in if you do not do this “favor” for him / her. Even if you do not do something wrong an inmate can trick you into thinking if you do not do this they will claim that you sexually assaulted them, there by destroying your career and giving you a reputation as a homosexual, which depending on your friends and work environment, could be extremely negative.
In order to take on this form of threat from an employee the first thing the security manager will need to do is initiate a training plan the involves various