Experiencing corrections from practitioner to professor (SAGE, 2012)
Includes bibliographical references and index
Introduction: connecting academics and practice in corrections / Lee Michael Johnson -- Looking back: reflections of a probation and parole officer / John Randolph Fuller -- Presentence officers as beasts of burden: coping with drug mule cases in an age of punitive sentencing / Staci Strobl -- Experiencing the ISP movement: the good, the bad, and the ugly / Eric J. Wodahl -- Patient evaluations r us: the dynamics of power relations in a forensic psychiatric facility from the bottom up / Jeffrey Ian Ross -- Re-discovering possibility: humanistic psychology and offender treatment / David Polizzi -- Administrative work in institutional corrections / Kelly Cheeseman Dial -- The experiences of an outsider spending time inside / Gennifer Furst -- Learning corrections: linking experience and research / Lucien X. Lombardo -- Corrections: experiences in state parole / Tiffiney Barfield-Cottledge -- An attempt to change disproportionate minority contact by working in youth corrections / Robert J. Durán -- Helping residential youth pursue their interests: good for youth and the youth worker -- Lee Michael Johnson -- Experiencing the parallels between juvenile and adult community corrections / Cassandra L. Reyes -- Working with minority youth in residential treatment / Everette B. Penn -- Working in corrections and teaching about the field: a short-term insider's perspective / N. Prabha Unnithan -- Experiencing the criminal justice system: lessons for later criminological understanding / Robert F. Meier and Teresa F. Smith -- Conclusion: a review of the essays / Lee Michael Johnson
This is a collection of essays written by scholars in the academic community with practical experience in corrections. Each essay contains the author's valuable and insightful reflections on their efforts to achieve important objectives while they were employed in the field