Human Relations and Corrections

Getting involved in true-to-life correctional situations! Like the earlier successful editions, the Fourth Edition provides readers with an opportunity to identify with various roles in the correctional system. The roles of the inmate, correctional officer, prison administrator, and others comprise vital relationships that enhance or inhibit the correctional process. Understanding and gaining insight into these roles can help readers relate to the offender and to professional peers. In order to do this, the authors provide forty-nine realistic cases for the readers' reactions, solutions, and discussion. Each case concludes with stimulating questions for discussion. The revision more thoroughly addresses a number of topics, including correctional institutions, prison unions, liability of correctional personnel for offender suicides during incarceration, alternative sentencing, and overcrowdedness and the threat of AIDS.