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Correctional Officers in America

Correctional Officers in America: The Emergence of a New Profession by Stephen Walters and Tom Caywood

Call Number: HV9470 .W35 2006

Table of Contents

  • The world of correctional officers
  • Selection and training
  • Characteristics of correctional officers
  • Correctional officers, inmates, & social control
  • The social psychology of correctional officers
  • The subculture of correctional officers
  • Minorities as correctional officers
  • Correctional officers without walls: probation & parole officers
  • Current issues concerning correctional officers.