The Effective Corrections Manager: Correctional Supervision for the Future: Correctional Supervision for the Future

By Charles R. McConnell and Bridget Gladwin

Managing a correctional agency hinges on effectively recruiting, training, directing, and motivating people to provide a stable and safe correctional facility. Providing current information on the management and supervision of correctional facilities, this revised and updated Third Edition offers practical advice based on direct experience. Designed for upper-undergraduate criminal justice and sociology courses, readers will learn about relevant trends with regard to correctional institutions, as well as sentencing, judicial treatment and correctional management philosophies. This comprehensive text covers all the major management topics required for those entering corrections, including labor-management relations, legal issues, writing, effective delegation, coping with changing environments, and more. The Effective Corrections Manager, Third Edition provides expanded coverage on supervision, report writing, and interpersonal relations. In terms of supervision the text includes expanded discussions on issues first time supervisors will encounter, building and maintaining morale, recognizing the need for training subordinates, and developing, implementing, and enforcing facility policies. This Third Edition stresses the importance of accurate report writing, including expanded coverage of strategies for writing incident reports, techniques for reviewing reports, and consequences for poor language and writing skills. Finally, it contains refined coverage of relationships between a supervisor and subordinates, recognizing and controlling potential conflicts between staff members, establishing appropriate positive relationships with inmates, motiving subordinates, and more. Preview content today Find the front matter and chapter one under the Samples Materials tab. Fully revised and updated with new information and additional examples, case studies, and exercises. New coverage of the evolution of corrections, ethics, and team building. Provides expanded coverage on supervision, report writing, and interpersonal relations. Chapters include examples and exercises that illustrate and apply the material corrections managers will likely encounter in the field. Each chapter begins with a short case study drawn from the real world. Instructor resources include a Test Bank and PowerPoint Lecture Outlines. The Effective Corrections Manager: Correctional Supervision for the Future, Third Edition is designed for criminal justice and sociology courses that prepare students to work within a correctional facility. The course is often found in a Police Science, Corrections, Justice Administration, or Human Resource Administration department. (c) 2014 294 pages

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1449645461
• ISBN13: 9781449645465
• Release Date: October 2012
• Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Publishers
• Length: 294 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 8.0" x 9.8"