Cost-effective Corrections Management
Author : Sentencing Institute (Ala.)
Publisher :
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 36,21 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Correctional institutions
ISBN :
Author : Sentencing Institute (Ala.)
Publisher :
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 36,21 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Correctional institutions
ISBN :
Author : Bridget Gladwin
Publisher : Jones & Bartlett Publishers
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 30,83 MB
Release : 2012-10-04
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1449645461
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. New to the Third Edition: - Chapters have been combined and condensed to better fit curriculum and course schedule. - Provides expanded coverage on supervision, report writing, and interpersonal relations. Instructor Resources include a Test Bank and PowerPoint Lecture Outlines.
Author : Richard L. Phillips
Publisher : Jones & Bartlett Learning
Page : 524 pages
File Size : 28,95 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0763733113
This authoritative reference covers all the necessary and relevant management areas at a level of detail that will be useful to all those working in prisons. Examples from the real world of contemporary corrections and exercises that parallel real-world situations.
Author : Billy L. Wayson
Publisher :
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 34,85 MB
Release : 1984
Category : Corrections
ISBN :
Author : Douglas McDonald
Publisher :
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 12,31 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Contracting out
ISBN :
Topics include contracting out health care services and cost-effectiveness.
Author : Donald J. Thalheimer
Publisher :
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 29,86 MB
Release : 1978
Category :
ISBN :
Author : Donald J. Thalheimer
Publisher :
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 21,22 MB
Release : 1975
Category : Criminals
ISBN :
Author : Stuart Adams
Publisher :
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 31,21 MB
Release : 1975
Category : Corrections
ISBN :
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 42 pages
File Size : 47,57 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Corrections
ISBN :
Author : Kenneth J. Peak
Publisher :
Page : 510 pages
File Size : 35,96 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Political Science
ISBN :
This book is an examination of police, courts, and corrections management as well as personnel and financial administration and criminal justice employees' rights.