Trends in Corrections (eBook, ePUB)

Interviews with Corrections Leaders Around the World, Volume Two
Redaktion: Hurley, Martha Henderson; Das, Dilip K.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Presenting transcribed interviews of corrections leaders, this book offers a comprehensive survey of correctional programming and management styles used across nations. Volume Two in this series extends the reach to several new countries, including Slovenia, Slovakia, and Northern Ireland. The interviews are conducted by scholars or practitioners with intimate knowledge of correctional practice and who are familiar with the correctional system in the country of the interviewees. They ask correction leaders specifically about the impact of the economic downturn on corrections in each country, changes in correctional practice, and how they think about and evaluate trends and developments.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Dezember 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781040220740
• Artikelnr.: 72524295

Autorenporträt

Martha Henderson Hurley is department head and professor in the Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice at Texas A&M University-Commerce (USA). Specific areas of research and teaching experience include criminal justice ethics, risk assessment and classification, analysis of performance measures, organizational change, prisoner reentry, special populations, and implementation of evidence-based practices in corrections. She has also worked as a senior researcher for the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction and served as a research analyst and facilitator of group sessions in a community-based juvenile program. Dilip K. Das has years of experience in police practice, research, writing, and education. Dr. Das is a professor of criminal justice, a former police chief, and a human rights consultant to the United Nations. He is the founding president of the International Police Executive Symposium (IPES), where he manages the affairs of the organization in cooperation with an appointed group of police practitioners, academia members, and individuals from around the world. Dr. Das is also the founding editor of Police Practice and Research: An International Journal. He is the author, editor, or coeditor of more than 30 books and numerous articles and has received several faculty excellence awards