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how can we solve current trends to plan for better correctional officer professionalization and accreditiation?
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correctional officer professionalization and accreditiation
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Preview: ... nd resolve hostility and conflict before physical confrontation occurs. Is this intervention considered a security or a treatment response? It can be both - it is security in that applying appropriate conflict or crises intervention strategies can reduce or eliminate hostilities leading to physical aggression, and it is treatment in that the officer's behavior and demeanor can show the inmate alternatives to resolving hostilities, therefore, potentially increasing the inmate's coping skills. Regardless of the employers' reasons, it is clear that they want correctional officers to be able to draw upon these skills when needed. A correctional officer's ability to resolve conflict and enhance coping skills appears to be consistent with the treatment and/or human-service function.
The integration of knowledge related to solving problems in various contexts is again associated with any professional college or university program. The subsequent curriculum review indicated that overall, students were not taken beyond the "knowledge" level associated with criminal justice concepts. The content analysis outcome from the first university suggests that even though students were sufficiently exposed to legal concepts, the students were not being taken to the next level of assessing and critiquing legal issues within a broader context, therefore, not developing the students' critical problem-solving skills. Such skills have potential for reducing the frustration, anger and conflict that is a normal part of institutional life. Who better than correctional officers to have at their disposal problem-solving strategies that can be immediately called on to resolve the multiple conflicts that arise within facilities?
Knowledge Unique To The Profession
A review of the participant responses that placed having an understanding of knowledge unique to the criminal justice field and working with at-risk populations as the third priority of employers, indicated the necessity of knowledge, skills and competencies related to:
* Recognizing mental instability;
* Knowledge and strategies related to substance use, abuse and treatment;
* Being skilled in the art of crises intervention and conflict resolution; and
* The application of legal concepts and client rights.
. The above characteristics enhance correctional officers' ability to recognize and interpret events that affect inmates' at-risk behavior within the constraints of the institution. The timely resolution of the problem or conflict will better ensure the safe and effective operation of the facility as well as help the inmate seek whatever services and programs may be available.
The specific knowledge areas, such as counseling, social work and alcohol/substance abuse treatment programs, parallel those associated with many professional schools found within college and university settings. However, the problems associated with substance abuse, conflict resolution and the like, are found in many traditional career environments and are addressed in such academic content areas as management, human resources and organizational development. In response to the survey results, the first university did recommend the addition of a conflict resolution course with further study as to how to incorporate more human serv ...
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Preview: ... r education (Ross, 1988). Criminal justice programs within institutions of higher education see a growing number of students interested in the c ...
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