NCJ Number
143571
Journal
Key to Commonwealth Corrections Issue: 16 Dated: (Summer 1991) Pages: complete issue
Editor(s)
T Garner
Date Published
1991
Length
30 pages
Annotation
These 14 articles and news items focus on correctional programs, correctional personnel attitudes and training, inmate statistics, and corrections policies in countries in the Commonwealth of Nations as well as in China and the United States.
Abstract
Individual papers examine correctional staff perceptions of mentally disordered offenders in Canada, the nature and roles of inmate academic education, the use of electronic monitoring of offenders, corrections management, the training of correctional officers in Malaysia, and the use of dogs by Australia's Prison Service. Other papers describe the functions of the Ministry of Justice of the People's Republic of China, privatization in corrections, inmate populations in several countries, and a conference of Commonwealth correctional administrators held in May 1992. Table and reference lists