Learning Objectives

  • Understand what makes work a profession as opposed to just a job
  • Know the types of correctional roles
  • Be able to explain what bureaucracy, closed institutions, and total institutions are and how they relate to corrections
  • Know how and why demographic factors affect corrections
  • Be able to explain what a subculture is and how it affects the workplace
  • Understand why care for aging and physically and mentally ill inmates in prisons has become such an issue
  • Understand why correctional staff might abuse power and experience stress and burnout