Introduction to Corrections and Probation

As the American correctional enterprise wines and turns from advances in technology, prisoner treatment programs, and a fear of victimization, emotions fueled by mainstream media agendas, new avenues are developed, new practices are implemented, and new legal precedents are established to carry the correctional community into this new millennium. Yet, offenders, too, are participants in individual learning techniques and informal workshops to utilize those amenities in an effort to continue their careers both inside and outside of confinement. In part, this new millennium of unmatched correctional advances is accompanied by huge budget-cuts setting the American Prison Industrial Complex (PIC) on a collision course with a huge increase of a diverse prisoner and detainment populations. This textbook supplies everything and more than textbooks costing $185 and more - Each chapter has learning objectives, keywords, and definitions, essay questions, and quizzes. The pathways of this text were taught by a criminal justice professor and prison treatment provider over a 25 year period and will provide instructors with the tools to be pleased about their accomplishments, too. One goal of this author is to aid a reader to think for herself or himself, to recognize the differences between the way prisons "should be" while connecting the dots of evidence suggesting "the way it is."