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Record W4411720868 · doi:10.1177/20662203251352596

If it didn’t screw me up, I’d be screwed up: Moral injury and moral labour in Canadian federal parole

2025· article· en· W4411720868 on OpenAlexaffabout
Mari Todd-Kvam, John Todd-Kvam, Rosemary Ricciardelli

Bibliographic record

VenueEuropean Journal of Probation · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicTorture, Ethics, and Law
Canadian institutionsMemorial University of Newfoundland
Fundersnot available
KeywordsMoral injuryPsychologyPsychoanalysisPolitical scienceSociologyCriminologySocial psychology

Abstract

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The aim of this article is to develop knowledge on how moral challenges affect officers’ well-being and professional performance. Building on existing research on adverse work experiences and the developing literature on moral injury, we examine 150 Canadian federal parole officers’ experiences of moral distress at work as distinct from traumatic stress and emotional stress. We unpack the process of how officers experience and manage moral distress and its aftermath in interaction with their social, organizational, and professional context. Our findings are crucial for addressing PPOs’ adverse work experiences, and for recognizing barriers to supporting clients’ rehabilitation and reintegration in penal settings. Therefore, we suggest a conceptualization specific to the moral aspects of challenges at work – moral labour – to further theorize and examine the relationship between moral distress at work, contextual conditions for managing the distress, and adverse work outcomes such as moral injury, burnout, and compassion fatigue.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.003
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.495
Threshold uncertainty score0.967

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0030.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.036
GPT teacher head0.308
Teacher spread0.272 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designObservational
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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