Experiencing Corrections : From Practitioner to Professor.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (297 pages)
Cover -- Brief Contents -- Detailed Contents -- Preface -- 1 - Introduction -- 2 - Looking Back -- 3 - Presentence Officers as Beasts of Burden -- 4 - Experiencing the ISP Movement -- 5 - Patient Evaluations R Us -- 6 - Re-discovering Possibility -- 7 - Administrative Work in Institutional Corrections -- 8 - The Experiences of an Outsider Spending Time Inside -- 9 - Learning Corrections -- 10 - Corrections -- 11 - An Attempt to Change Disproportionate Minority Contact by Working in Youth Corrections -- 12 - Helping Residential Youth Pursue Their Interests -- 13 - Experiencing the Parallels Between Juvenile and Adult Community Corrections -- 14 - Working With Minority Youth in Residential Treatment -- 15 - Working in Corrections and Teaching About the Field -- 16 - Experiencing the Criminal Justice System -- 17 - Conclusion -- Index -- About the Editor -- About the Contributors.
Bringing together essays by scholars with experience in the field, this collection provides readers with a valuable exploration of correction, from both a theoretical and practical standpoint.