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Being an officer has traditionally been a masculine job. It is a male dominated field, where training is done to help the officer deal with mostly male behavior. In training this male behavior is said to be physical violence. This masculine idea is perpetuated through the training that is done. Women often drop out of training because of the fear of violence, which further perpetuated the this masculine norm. This makes less females in this occupation.
There is also a difference in men's and women's prisons. Men's prisons are characterized as a violent place. Women inmates are viewed in the correctional systems as criers, liers, and manipulators. Female officers in male intuitions are surprisingly respected and often viewed as a nurturing figure. Male officers in female intuitions are sometimes viewed as fatherly figures, but a lot of males refuse to work in female institutions because of accusations made by the prisoners.