Corrections: The Essentials
Second Edition
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