NCJ Number
74427
Date Published
1980
Length
302 pages
Annotation
These papers, presented at the 109th Annual Congress of the American Correctional Association in 1979, cover the subjects of career development for correctional officers, inmate classification and treatment, the community and corrections, correctional policy, and resource allocations.
Abstract
The three major speeches deal with the problems of race and crime in corrections, the relevance of slavery to modern corrections, and the conference theme of balance in corrections. Individual papers describe the human service roles of correctional officers, their management training, and an inmate classification system implemented in Florida's Federal Correctional Institution which aims at reducing institutional violence. Also examined is the use of biofeedback and lie detection techniques to assess the dangerousness of inmates. Papers on the community and corrections focus on the military offender's inability to be served by resources; they also define community residential programs and describe four community supervision programs operating in London, England. Connecticut's PREP (Public/Private Resource Expansion Project), a public and private sharing of responsibility for community corrections policy and programs, is also described. Additional conference topics include the development of correctional policy, the prevention of affirmative action difficulties in employee relations, and the development of information for correctional decisionmaking. Papers on mental health cover the subjects of forensic psychiatry, forensic mental health, and the contributions of bureaucracies and organizations to job-related stress. Resource allocations are discusssed in papers by the acting commissioner of the New York State Department of Correctional Services and by former LEAA administrator Henry S. Dogin. Other topics discussed at the conference include the development and implementation of standards of juvenile corrections, strategies for correctional change, the California taxpayers' revolt, and special problems of women in corrections, both as workers and as inmates. Reference are given. Conference reports, resolutions, and a chart of the American Correctional Association Governance Structure are appended. See NCJ 74428-55 for individual papers.