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Life on the Installment Plan: Careers in Corrections
Publication year:
2000
| Cataloged on:
Oct. 31, 2006
ANNOTATION: How a person goes about choosing a correctional career is investigated. Sections within this paper include: popular image of corrections employees; the "real world" of corrections employees; characteristics of corrections employees; reasons people choose careers in corrections (e.g., economic considerations, career growth opportunities, military orientation, law enforcement motivation, social work motivation, opportunistic life change, power and control orientation, friends of family already employed in the field, personal "scrape with the law"); and policy implications for employee recruitment and retention.