Correctional Officers in America: The Emergence of a New Profession

by Stephen Walters and Tom Caywood

Abandoning common popular misconceptions of prison guards, this book analyzes who correctional officers are, how they are trained, and the common problems that they share while maintaining security in America's prisons. It examines the role of prisons, how it changed over time, and how correctional officers have been required to change as well.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0773457178
• ISBN13: 9780773457171
• Release Date: January 2006
• Publisher: Edwin Mellen Press
• Length: 235 Pages