Experiencing corrections : from practitioner to professor / edited by Lee Michael Johnson.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: connecting academics and practice in corrections / Lee Michael Johnson -- Looking back: reflections of a probation and parole officer / John Randolph Fuller -- Presentence officers as beasts of burden: coping with drug mule cases in an age of punitive sentencing / Staci Strobl -- Experiencing the ISP movement: the good, the bad, and the ugly / Eric J. Wodahl -- Patient evaluations r us: the dynamics of power relations in a forensic psychiatric facility from the bottom up / Jeffrey Ian Ross -- Re-discovering possibility: humanistic psychology and offender treatment / David Polizzi -- Administrative work in institutional corrections / Kelly Cheeseman Dial -- The experiences of an outsider spending time inside / Gennifer Furst -- Learning corrections: linking experience and research / Lucien X. Lombardo -- Corrections: experiences in state parole / Tiffiney Barfield-Cottledge -- An attempt to change disproportionate minority contact by working in youth corrections / Robert J. Dur -- Helping residential youth pursue their interests: good for youth and the youth worker -- Lee Michael Johnson -- Experiencing the parallels between juvenile and adult community corrections / Cassandra L. Reyes -- Working with minority youth in residential treatment / Everette B. Penn -- Working in corrections and teaching about the field: a short-term insider's perspective / N. Prabha Unnithan -- Experiencing the criminal justice system: lessons for later criminological understanding / Robert F. Meier and Teresa F. Smith -- Conclusion: a review of the essays / Lee Michael Johnson.