CCJ 4934 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Flashlight, Stereotype, Pepper Spray

• School: University of Florida
• Department: Sociology, Criminology and Law - Criminology
• Course: CCJ 4934
• Professor: Erika Brooke

Document Summary

Staff management: working in the correctional environment & leadership. Apa errors why these are errors, how to fix these errors. Governing personnel management and labor relations: start off as line officers and progress up to administrators it is an, involved with every aspect of institution experiential nature of corrections. Standards: staffing, written policy, affirmative action, staff selection, physical fitness, ethics, employee counseling, personnel records: labor unions. Politics major influence on how unions collectively bargain terms, raises. Workplace behavior and professionalism: have to be professional all the time because all things are seen. Setting the tone: corrections is a people business, staff/role models are always being watched. Corrective and disciplinary action: need proper training, regulations, rules, be fair, progression. Verbal instruction, warning, instruction, reduction in pay, suspension, fire. Immediate termination for immediate termination: domestic violence, moral turpitude, working under drugs/alcohol, trafficking contraband, inappropriate or sexual inmates, establishing personal relationship with families, bringing in weapons.