Chapter 1: CORRECTIONS: AN OVERVIEW
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Correctional Populations in the United States
Annotation: Tables present data on the growing number
of persons in the United States who were under some form of
correctional supervision. Begun in 1985 the tables are the latest in a
series based on data from annual BJS surveys. They present
jurisdiction-level counts of prisoners, probationers, and parolees, by
gender, race, Hispanic origin, admission type, release type, and
sentence length. Data are also provided on persons under jail
jurisdiction for the Nation, as well as the 25 largest jurisdictions.
Jail information includes the number of inmates by gender, race,
Hispanic origin, juvenile status, and conviction status, and the total
jail capacity and percent occupied at midyear.
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Justice Expenditure and Employment
in the United States
Annotation: Provides selected data from the Census
Bureau's Annual General Finance and Employment Surveys. Data presented
include police protection, judicial and legal services, and corrections
expenditure and employment for Federal, State, and local governments in
2001 and national trend data for 1982 to 2001.
Chapter
2: PUNISHMENTS: A BRIEF HISTORY
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Do Criminal Punishments Prevent Unsafe Acts?
Annotation: Making conduct criminal is society's
ultimate condemnation. This paper examines whether criminalization
actually reduces the frequency of undesirable conduct.
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Prison Use and Social Control
Annotation: Allegations that incarceration
undermines less coercive institutions of social control are largely
speculative, according to this paper, which reviews and evaluates the
existing evidence that recent increases in incarceration have had such
effects.
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Preventing Crime: What Works, What Doesn't and What's
Promising.
Annotation: A congressionally mandated evaluation
of state and local crime prevention programs funded by the U.S.
Department of Justice, it summarizes the conclusions reached by the
authors in developing three separate lists of programs for which at
least a minimum level of scientific evidence is available: what works,
what doesn't, and what's promising.
Chapter
3: SENTENCING: TO PUNISH OR TO REFORM
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Thirty Years of Sentencing Reform
Annotation: The purpose of this essay is to inform the
debate on race, crime, and justice by critically evaluating recent
empirical research examining the effect of race/ethnicity on sentence
severity and by searching for clues to the contexts or circumstances in
which race/ethnicity makes a difference. Forty recent and
methodologically sophisticated studies investigating the linkages
between race/ethnicity and sentence severity are reviewed; included are
32 studies of sentencing decisions in State courts and eight studies of
sentence outcomes at the Federal level.
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Reconsidering Indeterminate and Structured Sentencing
Annotation: No single, widely shared vision of
what sentencing and corrections should be about has emerged to replace
indeterminate sentencing. Any effort to describe "American sentencing
and corrections policies" is bound to be oversimplified and inadequate.
This report describes the ideas of practitioners and scholars foremost
in their field, representing a broad cross-section of points of view,
concerning the purposes, functions, and interdependence of sentencing
and corrections policies.
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Felony Sentences in State Courts,
Annotation: Presents statistics for adults who
were convicted of a felony and sentenced in State courts. The data were
collected through a nationally representative survey of 300 counties in
2002. Within the 12 offense categories reported are the number and
characteristics (age, sex, race) of offenders who were sentenced to
prison, jail, or probation.
Chapter
4: DIVERSION AND PROBATION: HOW MOST OFFENDERS ARE PUNISHED
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A
Guide to Implementing Police-Based Diversiion Programs for People with
Mental Illness
Annotation: This report addresses what law
enforcement agencies are doing nationally to improve their response to
people with
mental illness—largely through partnerships with the mental health
community—and explores how these agencies have overcome barriers to
create and maintain effective programs.
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Pretrial Services Programs
Annotation: This report provides a review of
issues and practices in the field of pretrial services. It describes
how pretrial programs operate, discusses key policy issues, and
outlines issues and challenges for the future. It pays particular
attention to how pretrial services programs obtain and convey
information relevant to the pretrial release/detention decision. It
also describes how pretrial services agencies, the court, and other
criminal justice system agencies can work together to minimize the
risks of nonappearance and pretrial crime.
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Stress Among Probation and Parole Officers and What
Can Be Done About It
Annotation: Researchers investigated the nature
and scope of stress among probation and parole officers at nine sites
around the country. They identified the major sources of stress (heavy
caseloads, paperwork, deadlines) and what officers do to cope. They
summarize key findings and provide case studies of promising stress
reduction programs.
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Probation and Parole in the United States
Annotation:
Reports the number of persons on probation and parole, by State, at
yearend 2005 and compares the totals with yearend 1995 and 2000. It
lists the States with the largest and smallest parole and probation
populations and the largest and smallest rates of community
supervision, and identifies the States with the largest increases. The
Bulletin also describes the race and gender of these populations and
reports the percentages of parolees and probationers completing
community supervision successfully, or failing because of a rule
violation or a new offense.
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Trends in Probation and Parole in the States
Annotation: This paper discusses six trends that
characterize the efforts of probation and parole to meet their mandates
and improve their effectiveness. Environmental factors that impact
probation and parole are organizational structure, workload, resources
and funding, and sentencing alternatives and reform. Trends that
redefine the missions and organizational culture of parole and
probation are collaboration and partnerships, results-driven
management, the re-emergence of rehabilitation, specialization,
technology, and community justice.
Chapter
5: INTERMEDIATE SANCTIONS: BETWEEN PROBATION AND INCARCERATION
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Drug Courts: The Second Decade (NIJ Special Report
June 2006)
Annotation: Researchers have begun to look at
the inner workings of drug courts and to investigate how key functional
drug court components, singly and in combination, affect outcomes. This
report summarizes six key findings.
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The Future of Drug Courts
Annotation: This paper examines the
implementation of drug court in four states (Louisiana, Missouri, New
York, and Ohio). Topics discussed include the early years of drug
courts, leadership and mavericks, the art of selling drug courts, the
role of statutes in drug court growth, laws creating alternatives to
incarceration, federal support, ten key components, an operational
challenge, different models, centralizing authority, building support,
promoting best practices, creating infrastructure, increasing capacity,
and conclusion - lessons of institutionalization.
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Correctional Boot Camps: Lessons From a Decade of
Research
Annotation: This report presents findings from 10
years of data analyzing whether boot camps are successful in reducing
recidivism, prison populations, and operating costs. The report found
that although boot camps generally had positive effects on the
attitudes and behaviors of inmates during confinement, these changes
did not translate into reduced recidivism.
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Sentencing To Service Review/Assessment Report
Annotation: Review/Assessment Report
This document discusses how Minnesota’s Sentencing to Service (STS)
program has proven to be both cost-efficient and effective with
long-term benefits for the state and the offenders it serves.
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What Future for "Public Safety" and "Restorative
Justice" in Community Corrections?
Annotation: Restorative justice and public
safety principals are reshaping community corrections around the
country. Pursuing public safety requires community corrections to take
a proactive approach, to come from behind the desk into the community.
This report discusses the role of restorative justice in the pursuit of
public safety.
Chapter
6: JAILS: WAY STATIONS ALONG THE JUSTICE HIGHWAY
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American Indian Suicides in Jail
Annotation: The results of this research suggest
that suicide risk assessment protocols tailored to the cultural
backgrounds of detainee populations is more effective than an
impersonally administered one-size-fits-all approach.
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Providing Services for Jail Inmates With Mental
Disorders
Annotation: This report discusses findings from
an NIJ-sponsored survey and selected site visits undertaken to identify
innovative policies and practices to address the needs of mentally
disordered offenders detained in the Nation's jails. Few jails are
equipped to provide a comprehensive range of mental health services.
Most jails have no policies or procedures for managing and supervising
mentally disordered detainees. Approximately 84 percent of survey
respondents reported that mental health services were received by
one-tenth or fewer of their inmates.
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When Neighbors Go to Jail
Annotation: The impact of incarceration rates on
community disorganization and family and economic life in Leon County,
Florida, is examined to determine the relationship between direct and
indirect exposure to the criminal justice system and attitudes toward
social control. This review reports on the attitudinal differences
between people who have been exposed to incarceration and those who
have not and how they alter neighborhood life.
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Making Jail Mental Health a Community Issue
Annotation: The implementation of Orange County
Jail Oversight Commission's (JOC) recommendations regarding mentally
ill offenders in jails is related. This article is comprised of the
following sections: background; confronting the situation --
pre-booking diversion, post-booking division, and in-custody services;
JOC revisited; and community action.
Chapter
7: PRISONS TODAY: CHANGE STATIONS OR WAREHOUSES
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Delaware Department of Correction Life Skills Program
Annotation: The Delaware Department of Correction has
implemented an innovative 4-month Life Skills Program for prison
inmates that does more than teach traditional academic and applied life
skills. The program, which meets for 3 hours every weekday, has three
major components: academics, violence reduction, and applied life
skills. The core of Delaware's Life Skills Program is Moral Reconation
Therapy (MRT), which is a systematic, step-by-step process of raising
the moral reasoning level of prisoners through a series of moral and
cognitive stages.
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Objective Prison Classification
Annotation: The current state of the art in
prison classification is reviewed. The document includes a brief
history of objective prison classification, what is objective prison
classification, effective strategies, evaluations of prison
classification systems, classification of women prisoners, and other
special topics and issues in classification.
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Prisons Research at the Beginning of the 21st Century
Annotation: This analysis discusses what is known and
knowable about the collateral effects of imprisonment, crime control
effects of imprisonment, prisoners and prison staff, prison management,
and the political economy of prisons at the Beginning of the 21st
Century.
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Classification
of High-Risk and Special Management Prisoners
Annotation: Results from a survey designed to
obtain information on the procedures used to classify high-risk
inmates, particularly those in protective custody or administrative
segregation, and inmates with mental illness or medical problems.
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Developing Gender-Specific Classification Systems for
Women Offenders
Annotation: This report addresses the critical need
for gender-specific objective classification systems. It covers the
literature in classification issues for women offenders, women's
classification initiatives, building blocks to effective classification
of women offenders, addressing classification issues that require
systemic change, and future steps. This report also has two appendixes:
descriptions of seven states women's classification initiatives
(Colorado, Florida, Hawaii, Idaho, Nebraska, West Virginia, and
Wisconsin); and sample initial and reclassification instruments
developed by Colorado and Idaho.
Chapter
8: PAROLE: EARLY RELEASE AND REENTRY
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But They All Come Back: Rethinking Prisoner Reentry
Annotation: Reentry management approaches that
reintegrate offenders into the community and prevent recurring
antisocial behavior are explored and the need for the judiciary to play
a greater role is emphasized.
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After Prison: Roadblocks To Reentry
Annotation: The legal barriers ex-offenders face
upon their reentry to the community are explained. Particular attention
is given to what's the law, roadblocks to reentry, employment, public
assistance and food stamps, voting, access to criminal records, public
housing, drivers' licenses, adoptive and foster parenting, student
loans, report card, and vision for the future.
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Reentry Programs for Women Inmates
Annotation: This essay discusses the inmate
rehabilitation programs that are being developed specifically for
female inmates. Specifically, it presents an evaluation of two
therapeutic community drug rehabilitation programs for female prisoners
in Delaware: (1) The KEY program at Baylor Women's Correctional
Institute and (2) CREST, a work release program at Sussex Correctional
Institute.
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Residential Substance Abuse Treatment for State
Prisoners
Annotation: This document examines the
Residential Substance Abuse Treatment (RSAT) program at the South Idaho
Correctional Institution. The program targets parole-violating inmates
with substance abuse problems in an effort to reduce recidivism.
Researchers conducted a 15-month evaluation of the program's process to
identify strengths and weaknesses.
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Responding to Parole and Probation Violations
Annotation: Policy responses to probation and parole
violations that enhance the effectiveness of supervision while also
improving community safety are discussed.
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Prisoner Reentry and Community
Policing: Strategies for Enhancing Public Safety
Annotation: Police are crucial partners in the pursuit
of successful prisoner reintegration whether it is coordinating
community policing partnerships for the purpose of prisoner
reentry, participating in prerelease reentry planning, or joining
parole pursuit of successful prisoner reintegration. This report
presents information on why prisoner reentry is an important issue for
the policing profession, and describes with the support of examples
from the fi eld various models of police involvement in reentry.
Chapter
9: THE STAFF WORLD: MANAGING THE PRISON ENVIRONMENT
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Census of State and Federal Correctional Facilities
Annotation:
Information on facilities, inmates, programs, and staff of State and
Federal correctional facilities throughout the Nation, and of private
correctional facilities housing State or Federal inmates is provided.
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A 21st Century Workforce for America's Correctional
Profession
Annotation: This document is a report
summarizing the Discovery Phase of the extensive project entitled
'Building a Strategic Workforce Plan for the Corrections Profession'"
(p. 5). Five sections follow an executive summary: growth of the
corrections system -- problems of recruiting and retaining corrections
officers; the demographics of the correctional workforce in the U.S.;
looking ahead at the demand side; looking ahead at the supply side; and
promising human resource practices.
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Correctional Officer Recruits and the Prison
Environment.
Annotation: The report examines the adaptation of a
newly hired corrections officer to the prison environment. The report
focuses upon the following demographic profile information: attitudes
towards correctional work, attitude towards inmates support for
rehabilitation, deterrence, human service orientation, and other
qualities and factors.
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Duress Systems in Corrections Facilities
Annotation: In order to respond effectively to
assaults on personnel and other emergencies, corrections facilities
must be able to pinpoint the location
and nature of the problem within seconds of its occurrence. A duress
system—typically composed of a closed network of portable and mounted
transmitters and receivers linked by ultrasonic, infrared, or radio
frequency waves to a command center alarm console—permits the rapid and
coordinated response that can save lives and reduce institutional
damage. This Guide provides detailed information on nine commercially
available systems, covering the alarm, locator, and control subsystems;
hardware/software used; and additional features.
Chapter
10: THE INMATE WORLD: LIVING BEHIND BARS
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Prisons Research at the Beginning of the Twenty-First
Century
Annotation: Research on the collateral effects of
imprisonment suggests that policy makers have been flying blind, making
decisions costing billions of dollars and affecting millions of lives
without adequate knowledge of the nature and costs of some unintended
side effects, according to this report. The writer advocates a more
reasoned and empirical approach to criminal justice sentencing policy.
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Sexual Violence Reported by Correctional Authorities
Annotation: Presents data from the Survey on
Sexual Violence, 2004, an administrative records collection of
incidents of inmate-on-inmate and staff-on-inmate sexual violence
reported to correctional authorities. The report provides counts of
sexual violence by type and includes tables on reporting capabilities,
how investigations are handled, and characteristics of victims and
perpetrators of sexual violence.
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Caught in the Net: the Impact of Drug Policies on
Women & Families
Annotation: The rate of imprisonment of women for drug
crimes has far outpaced that of men. Families and children suffer – but
why? Either we have turned a blind eye or we simply misunderstand
women’s experiences with drugs. Jointly published by The ACLU, Break
the Chains: Communities of Color and the War on Drugs, and the Brennan
Center for Justice at NYU School of Law, this report begins a new
dialogue and insists on answers to questions about women and drugs, and
the laws and policies that should be in place.
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Gender-Responsive Strategies Research, Practice,
and Guiding Principles for Women Offenders
Annotation: The purpose of the document is to
identify critical differences between men and women inmates and to
define their implications for improving correctional management and
services for women offenders.
Chapter
11: THE LEGAL WORLD: PRISONERS' RIGHTS
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Pell v. Procunier, 471 U.S. 817 (1974)
Annotation: In this case the Court ruled that "So long
as [a] restriction operates in a neutral fashion, without regard to the
content of the expression, it falls within the 'appropriate rules and
regulations' to which 'prisoners necessarily are subject,' and does not
abridge any First Amendment freedoms retained by prison inmates."
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Cruz v. Beto, 405 U.S. 319 (1972)
Annotation: The Court held that a complaint that
challenged restrictions on an inmate's practice of Buddhism stated a
claim upon which relief could be granted, ruling that "reasonable
opportunities must be afforded to all prisoners to exercise the
religious freedom guaranteed by the First and Fourteenth Amendments
without fear of penalty.
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Estelle v. Gamble, 429 U.S. 97 (1976)
Annotation: The Court held that deliberate
indifference to serious medical needs is prohibited whether the
indifference is manifested by prison doctors in their response to the
prisoner's needs or by prison guards in intentionally denying or
delaying access to medical care or intentionally interfering with the
treatment once prescribed.
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Wolff v. McDonnell, 418 U.S. 539 (1974)
Annotation: The Court expanded due process
standards to govern the imposition of discipline upon prisoners. But
since prison disciplinary proceedings are not part of a criminal
prosecution the full rights of a defendant are not extended to
prisoners.
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Wilson v. Seiter, 501 U.S. 294 (1991)
Annotation: The Court held that any pain and
suffering endured by a prisoner which is not formally a part of his
sentence--no matter how severe or unnecessary--will not be held
violative of the Cruel and Unusual Punishments Clause unless the
prisoner establishes that some prison official intended the harm.
CHAPTER
12: SPECIAL PRISON POPULATIONS: THE ELDERLY, HIV/AIDS, AND THE
MENTALLY CHALLENGED
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Mental Health Problems of Prison and Jail Inmates
Annotation: This report resents estimates of the
prevalence of mental health problems among prison and jail inmates
using self-reported data on recent history and symptoms of mental
disorders, and compares the characteristics of offenders with a mental
health problem to those without
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Crossing the Bridge: An Evaluation
of the Drug Treatment Alternative-to-Prison
(DTAP) Program
Annotation: This report analyzes results from a
five-year evaluation of Brooklyn's Drug Treatment Alternative-to-Prison
(DTAP).
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Telemedicine Can Reduce Correctional Health Care
Costs
Annotation: Telemedicine, the remote delivery of
health care through telecommunications, is promising for prison use.
This report examines how prisons can use telemedicine to reduce health
care costs and decrease security risks. Demonstrations of telemedicine
in four Federal prisons indicate that, in addition to cost savings,
remote telemedical consultations can provide access to new specialists
and improve the quality of care delivered to prison populations.
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Correctional
Health Care: Addressing the Needs of Elderly, Chronically Ill, and
Terminally Ill Inmates
Annotation: This report reviews recent literature,
describes promising approaches taken by systems in six states and
discusses “how agencies are meeting related operational, programmatic,
and health care delivery challenges.”
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Dignity Denied: The Price
of Imprisoning Older Women in California
Annotation: This reports examines the conditions of
confinement for older women imprisoned
in California, documents their health and safety concerns and discusses
strategies
to improve their health and well-being. The findings are based on data
derived from
120 surveys of women prisoners aged 55 and older as well as a series of
semi-structured
interviews with older women prisoners, their families and friends. The
findings
address activities of daily life, housing, work and programming, health
care, abuse
and social support for older prisoners. The last three chapters examine
current
efforts nationally to respond to the crisis generated by the graying of
the prison
population, explore the questions surrounding the development of
geriatric prisons,
and make recommendations for ways California policymakers might address
the issues.
Chapter
13: PRISON ISSUES AND CONCERNS: SECURITY, PRIVATIZATION,
TECHNOLOGY AND ACCREDIDATION
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Biometrics
Catalog Online
Annotation: The Biometrics Catalog is a U.S.
Government sponsored database of information about biometric
technologies including research and evaluation reports, government
documents, legislative text, news articles, conference presentations,
and vendors/consultants.
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Supermax Prisons and the Constitution.
Annotation: This monograph discusses the
liability issues in operating supermax prisons. It covers the
background of supermax prisons and related litigation, and it takes a
close look at case law, prison policies and practices, and "lessons
learned" in operational areas that give rise to litigation.
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Implementing Telemedicine in Correctional Facilities
Annotation: Telemedicine uses telecommunications
equipment that allows health care providers to see and diagnose inmates
in prisons located far from health care providers' offices. The
experiment reported on here showed that prisons could improve inmate
health care by providing remote access to more medical specialists
while reducing prisoner transport costs and related security management
costs. This report provides a model for estimating the relative costs
of telemedicine under varying conditions in a correctional setting.
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Resolution of Prison Riots.
Annotation: This research discusses how eight
State and Federal prisons have dealt with riots and what strategies and
procedures are effective during the stages of a prison riot. Safety of
prison employees, inmates, and residents of the area in which the
facility is located, plus the financial cost of prison riots makes
their prevention and containment a critical issue. Factors that must be
addressed include such criminal justice issues as how prisons are
administered (and how command is divided during riots), race relations
in prisons, how prisons are built and renovated, how prisons are
staffed, and how staff are utilized and augmented during riots. On the
basis of an in-depth examination of eight disturbances, the study
concludes that proactive planning and preparation along with reactive
problem solving is the most effective approach to prison riot
resolution
Chapter
14: THE VICTIM: HELPING THOSE IN NEED
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The Rights of Crime Victims: Does Legal Protection
Make a Difference?
Annotation: This survey of more than 1,300
crime victims, the largest of its kind,
was conducted by the National Center
for Victims of Crime to find out
whether State constitutional amendments
and other legal measures designed
to protect crime victims’ rights
have been effective.
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Repairing the Harm: A New Vision for Victim
Compensation in America
Annotation: Financial compensation for victims
is a critical ingredient in repairing the harm caused by crime. After
the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, the nation responded
immediately with a remarkable level of private and government support
for the thousands of victims left behind. Repairing the Harm reflects
on our approach to compensating the September 11 victims and explores
how best to provide financial assistance to all crime victims.
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Analyzing Repeat Victimization
Annotation: This report helps police identify and
understand patterns of repeat victimization for a range of crime and
disorder problems. It describes the concept of repeat victimization and
its relationship to other patterns in public safety problems, such as
hot spots and repeat offenders
Chapter
15: DEATH: THE ULTIMATE SANCTION
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Convicted by Juries, Exonerated by Science
Annotation: This research report discusses a study,
initiated in June 1995, to identify and review cases in which convicted
persons were released from prison as a result of posttrial DNA testing
of evidence.
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The Future of Forensic DNA Testing
Annotation: The National Commission on the
Future of DNA Evidence was created by U.S. Attorney General. This
report identifies the technical advances through 2010 and assesses the
expected impact of these on forensic DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid)
analysis.
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Getting to Death
Annotation: Annotation: Researchers investigated the
hypothesis that the more a jurisdiction used the death penalty,
sentences would be found legally invalid and overturned. Error rates
were computed within States from 1973, when capital punishment was
reinstated in the United States following the Supreme Court decision in
Furman v. Georgia through 1995. The study found that heavy use of the
death penalty created a significantly higher risk that reversible
mistakes will occur. It was also concluded that the conditions
pressuring States to overuse the death penalty and thus increase the
risk of unreliability and error include race, politics, and poorly
performing law enforcement systems. Error was also linked to
overburdened and underfunded State courts. Policy options and reforms
are discussed.
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Furman v. Georgia, 408 U.S. 238 (1972)
Annotation: In its decision in Furman v. Georgia in
1972, the United States Supreme Court invalidated all then-existing
death penalty laws, determining that the death penalty was applied in
an "arbitrary and capricious" and unreliable manner that violated
Eighth Amendment protections against cruel and unusual punishment. In
1976 the high court ruled in Gregg v. Georgia that, on its face,
Georgia's new "guided discretion" capital-sentencing procedures
appeared to have reduced the problem of arbitrary, capricious, and
unreliable death verdicts that had led the Court to invalidate prior
capital statutes in Furman v. Georgia.
Chapter
16: JUVENILE CORRECTIONS
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A Century of Juvenile Justice
Annotation: This document examines multiple forces
that have substantially impacted the juvenile justice endeavor during
the 20th century. An examination of shifts in policy and practice over
time provides a valuable foundation for envisioning justice for youths
in the new century. First, it describes the development of the juvenile
justice system, underscoring major eras in its evolution. It then
examines trends in four broad areas that have shaped the juvenile
justice system: (1) social constructions of childhood and delinquency;
(2) the role of criminological theory and measurement; (3) juvenile
crime patterns as represented primarily in official reports; and (4)
general social, economic, and cultural trends, including patterns of
change in the larger criminal justice system. Finally, there is an
examination of the possibilities for at least ameliorating some of the
seemingly intractable dilemmas of justice for youths.
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Into The Abyss: A Personal Journey into the World of
Street Gangs
Annotation: Read this Web-based groundbreaking
work on the youth gang subculture and access more than 2,300 links to
useful gang-related information.
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Dismantling the Border Between Juvenile and Adult
Justice
Annotation: This chapter reviews the origins of
juvenile justice in the United States, summarizes the legislative and
policy changes that are effectively dismantling the juvenile-criminal
border, and examines research on the impact of such policies. The
discussion concludes with a review of issues that should be prominent
in any debate about the future viability of the juvenile-criminal
boundary.
Chapter
17: PROFESSIONALISM
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New Approaches to Staff Safety
Annotation: Staff safety training issues for community
corrections agencies are discussed including use-of-force continuum,
crisis prevention, self defense and physical fitness, oleoresin
capsicum, body protection, safety in the office, protection from
disasters, arrest, search, and seizure, field work, canine
considerations, scenario training, and critical incidents.
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Correctional Officers Professional Orientation Scales
Annotation: A review of tools utilized in
assessing correctional officer attitudes is presented. Scales
considered are organized into three groups: offender related scales,
orientation to correctional work scales, and attitudes towards
corrections scales. Each entry includes a brief description of the
scale, corresponding items, and psychometric properties to be derived
from scale use.
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Who Will Control the Jails Beyond 2000?
Annotation: A discussion how to succeed at jail
management. Topics include how to know when there's a problem, direct
supervision, mission and philosophy, and correctional leadership.
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Correctional Leadership Competencies for the 21st
Century
Annotation: Characteristics that result in the best
performance of executive and senior level leaders are identified along
with the key skills, knowledge, and attributes of effective and
successful leaders which are then linked to a set of specific
behaviors.
