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    Corrections Officers Roles

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    Roles of Corrections Officers CRJ303: Corrections January 12‚ 2015 The role of a correctional officers‚ also known as detention officers play a very vital role when it comes to their duties inside the penitentiary or in a detention home. The Department of Corrections is an agency of the United State government that have been around for many of centuries. The correctional officers and the prison administration are an essential piece to our Justice System. The correctional officers has the

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    Life for a Corrections Officer Elizabeth Austin CRJ303: Corrections Instructor:  Tracy Crump January 7‚ 2012 Being a correction officer is not an easy job. Each and every correction officer has a daily routine‚ stress‚ danger‚ and has to learn to gain compliance of every inmate. Every day in a prison working with inmates can be a challenge; some days may seem easier than other days. There is a daily routine and schedule that each correction officer has to come to terms with. The tasks could

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    Roles of Corrections Officers Keli Tomlinson Ashford University Corrections CRJ 303 Karyn Goldmeier September 19‚ 2014 Roles of Corrections Officers Many people view correctional officer‚ or COs‚ as the backbone to corrections. Besides managing inmates 24 hours a day‚ seven days a week‚ usually divided up working 12 hour shifts‚ their upmost important role is to maintain a safe and secure environment for both staff and inmates. Correctional officers have one of the hardest and most challenging jobs

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    My name is Steven Adams. I currently work for the Arizona Department of Juvenile Corrections as A Youth Corrections Officer. The work is very interesting because of the type of youth that you come in contact with and they are at a very challenging point in their lives. I spend most of my time supervising the kids but have also become certified as a group facilitator in the Seven Challenges Program which is the substance abuse program that we run on the facility. I have coached Youth in the Past as

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    I will be writing about why I want to be a Corrections Officer‚ what it means to be a Correction Officer‚ and the skills you need to do the job. I have chosen this as my degree of study because I enjoy being around people and keeping things in order. Everyone deserves a chance to make changes in their own life. A Corrections Officer job is to oversee people who have been arrested; they are waiting trail or have been convicted and sentenced to jail or prison by the court. They are legally authorized

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    For the Running Header: THE SLIPPERY SLOPE TO CORRUPTION The Slippery Slope to Corruption and the Public Corruption of Police Officers Ricky A Price‚ Col. U.S.A.F. (Ret) Kaplan University Online CJ340-02: Applied Criminal Justice Ethics Professor Kevin Stoehr 10 July 2012 The law enforcement agent‚ that represents government‚ bears the heavy responsibility of maintaining‚ in his own conduct and the honor and integrity of all government institutions. He‚ consequently‚ shall guard against

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    Explain the motivations as to why people become police officers. An individual’s motivational reason for wanting to become a police officer does not really differ from person to person. According to a survey given to male and female officers asking what drove them towards a career in law enforcement‚ they all had similar responses. The majority of the answers these officers gave were the ability to help people‚ fight crime‚ have and exciting job‚ and job security. Contrary to belief‚ officers have little

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    Topic: The negative consequences of imprisonment have been exaggerated. Task: Critically examine this statement by examining the negative and positive aspects of imprisonment. The sanction of imprisonment is a last resort to be applied by the courts. Being sent to prison as an offender means that you are not currently fit to live in society in your current state. Consequences due to the sanction of imprisonment are vast and far reaching‚ with both positive and negative results with even more

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    Power In Corrections

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    a word that can stand alone. Power can evoke intimidation‚ motivation‚ or abuse. Schmalleger & Smykla (2015) state‚ that there are five types of power that Correctional officers use in an institution‚ and rely on‚ to achieve compliant behavior from inmates. They are: legitimate power‚ coercive power‚ reward power‚ expert power‚ and referent power. Let’s discuss each one‚ and how to incorporate them in the course of a corrections officer’ work day. According to‚ The Merriam-Webster Dictionary (2017)

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    The thesis for “Improving Motivation and Productivity of Police Officers” is Supervisors throughout Law Enforcement work hard to make sure officers stay motivated‚ and are performing efficiently and effectively. Crime fighting can cause officers to have a different view towards people and can give them a us versus them view. Many negative factors in Law Enforcement can cause officers to do the bare minimum‚ and can lead to having feelings of inconsequentiality. Officers see the worst of people and

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