The Emerging Professionalism of the Correctional Officer

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This article discusses the increasing emphasis on profession alism in correctional work and relates this trend to the expanding roles of the correctional officer. In many ways the correctional officer is the most influential employee in the correctional insti tution, and yet the training he receives is brief and almost exclu sively focused on custodial skills. Recent developments and in novations in correctional practice are creating new roles for the correctional officer which involve him more actively in the total correctional process. Just what his training should be ard where and how he is to be trained are critical questions which need to be resolved.

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