Effective Corrections Manager : Correctional Supervision for the Future

Managing a correctional agency hinges on effectively recruiting, training, directing, and motivating people to provide a stable and safe correctional facility. Providing current information on the management and supervision of correctional facilities, this revised and updated Third Edition offers practical advice based on direct experience. Designed for upper-undergraduate criminal justice and sociology courses, readers will learn about relevant trends with regard to correctional institutions, as well as sentencing, judicial treatment and correctional management philosophies. This comprehensive text covers all the major management topics required for those entering corrections, including labor-management relations, legal issues, writing, effective delegation, coping with changing environments, and more. The Effective Corrections Manager, Third Edition provides expanded coverage on supervision, report writing, and interpersonal relations. In terms of supervision the text includes expanded discussions on issues first time supervisors will encounter, building and maintaining morale, recognizing the need for training subordinates, and developing, implementing, and enforcing facility policies. This Third Edition stresses the importance of accurate report writing, including expanded coverage of strategies for writing incident reports, techniques for reviewing reports, and consequences for poor language and writing skills. Finally, it contains refined coverage of relationships between a supervisor and subordinates, recognizing and controlling potential conflicts between staff members, establishing appropriate positive relationships with inmates, motiving subordinates, and more. New to the Third Edition: • Chapters have been combined and condensed to better fit curriculum and course schedule. • Provides expanded coverage on supervision, report writing, and interpersonal relations. Instructor Resources include a Test Bank and PowerPoint Lecture Outlines.

Bridget P. Gladwin is retired from a thirty four year career in New York State and Local Government. Twenty eight of those years were spent in State and Local corrections. She has served as warden of three different minimum and medium security male and female New York State correctional institutions and was a deputy commissioner for the Westchester Department of Corrections. During her career, Ms Gladwin has also worked as a criminal justice consultant. She worked as a trainer for the American Correctional Association, the National Institute of Corrections and as a program evaluator for the National Institute of Justice. Ms. Gladwin holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Sociology from London University and a Masters of Social work from Rutgers University. Since her retirement, she has been an adjunct professor at Pace University, St. John’s University and currently teaches at John Jay College of Criminal Justice.

Charles R. McConnell started his professional career in industrial and management engineering, followed by 29 years in human resources management in the healthcare industry. During those years he served as a human resources manager for affiliated organizations of a multi-facility healthcare system based in Rochester, New York, and earlier as a senior consultant with the Management and Planning Services division of the Hospital Association of New York State. He currently is an independent human resources and editorial consultant who has published more than 20 books and numerous articles, and serves as editor of a quarterly professional journal. He holds a BS in engineering and an MBA from the State University of New York at Buffalo, and has served as adjunct faculty at several colleges.