%0 Journal Article
%T The self
%A Chuck Fields
%A Gorazd Me£¿ko
%A Rok Hacin
%J European Journal of Criminology
%@ 1741-2609
%D 2019
%R 10.1177/1477370818764831
%X This paper focuses on the self-legitimacy of prison staff in Slovenia. The primary aim of this study is to identify possible differences between those factors that influence the self-legitimacy of prison officers in different periods, which would confirm the applicability of some of the theoretical assumptions on the unstable nature of self-legitimacy. Possible differences between groups of prison workers will be explored. The results show that perceptions of supervisors¡¯ procedural justice, relations with colleagues, audience legitimacy and age are the best predictors of self-legitimacy. These findings highlight the unstable nature of self-legitimacy and, moreover, the perceptions of self-legitimacy vary over time and in different groups of prison workers. The implications of these findings will be discussed
%K Prison staff
%K procedural justice
%K self-legitimacy
%K Slovenia
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1477370818764831