Who Am I? The Role of Correctional Personnel

Duration: 14

Year Published: 1972

Creator: Vision Associates

Format: 16mm

Color: Color

Sound: sound

Description: Interviews a staff psychiatrist, correctional instructor, vocational instructor, parole officer, and social worker to examine the roles of correction officers as they relate to offenders. Indicates that, generally, detention duration is a brief period of a person's life and it must be handled effectively if rehabilitation is to occur. Stresses treatment should not reinforce already existing non-acceptable characteristics but rather reinforce acceptable tendencies.

Complete Record: Interviews a staff psychiatrist, correctional instructor, vocational instructor, parole officer, and social worker to examine the roles of correction officers as they relate to offenders. Indicates that, generally, detention duration is a brief period of a person's life and it must be handled effectively if rehabilitation is to occur. Stresses treatment should not reinforce already existing non-acceptable characteristics but rather reinforce acceptable tendencies., NOTE: Two (or more) records have been merged together to create this data.