Self-image of Officer of Protection Service in the Prison System: Case Study of the Penitentiary in Rawicz

Abstract

The main objectives of the article are to determine the types of self-perception of officers in protection service in the prison system in penitentiary in Rawicz and to explain why the officers have specific self-creation mechanisms. Territorial boundaries are limited to the Penitentiary in Rawicz, temporarily to the period from September 2018 to March 2019, subjective to officers of the Protection Service in the Prison System, subject to self-image of their professional role. They were achieved by solving the following research problems: What are the ways to self-create the image of the officers? Why do the officers have specific mechanisms? Conclusions: the director and his deputies should take appropriate actions to stop the development of negative self-image creation. A qualitative field method was used, namely a survey. The technique used is in-depth interview, and the tools are the questionnaire and the typology of the interview auto-run. The study shows that most of the respondents are classified in the middle of the scale. The most important issue, which the study showed, is the fact that in the vast majority of respondents after a period of time (which is already dependent on the individual predispositions of the individual) the choice of the good or bad side is made, i.e. the start of the creation their person as a hero, savior, or servant, antichrist. The issue of thinking about one’s work (service) as bureaucratic, derogatory and badly judged by others, or the needed, heroic, necessary for the good of the whole society is raised here.