Teaches you how to perform your duties as a probation or parole officer while avoiding liability. This course offers an overview of the most common legal problems facing field officers today and presents strategies for overcoming them. Equivalent to 40 hours of in-service training.

Legal Issues for Probation and Parole Officers: Book 1, Book 2, and Final Tests

American Correctional Association

Amer Correctional Assn

Standards for Juvenile Training Schools

Children's Books

Contains 421 standards covering 32 program areas including personnel, training, safety, sanitation, security, health care, and supervision.

Standards for Adult Local Detention Facilities, 3rd Edition

Reference

Writing, Research & Publishing Guides

Book by American Correctional Association

Standards for Juvenile Detention Facilities

Designed for facilities with less than 20 beds. Contains 340 standards covering 19 program areas including admissions, discipline, and release preparation.

Standards for small juvenile detention facilities

The Association

This course examines how to supervise mentally retarded, psychologically impaired, and older offenders, as well as those with infectious diseases. Reviews legal rights, laws for the disabled, and the risks and rewards involved in working with special needs offenders. Equivalent to 40 hours of in-service training. Final test, certificate.

Working With Special Needs Offenders: Correspondence Course

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Inmates will attempt to manipulate you in many ways. They will use manipulation to gain control over you and other inmates. This course helps you to identify game playing tactics and your own vulnerability to manipulation. You'll learn how to recognize the signs of inmate manipulation and most importantly, how to avoid being "reeled in." Equivalent to 24 hours of in-service training. Final test, certificate.

Working With Manipulative Inmates Correspondence Course

Book by American Correctional Association

Classification: A Tool for Managing Today's Offenders

Correctional Law for the Correctional Officer

William C. Collins

Correctional Law: An Updated Bibliography of Selected Books & Articles

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