Community Corrections Officers as Boundary Spanners: How Their Professional Lives Help or Hinder
Author: Russ Immarigeon.
Source: Volume 18, Number 01, May/June 2014 , pp.5-6(2)
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Abstract:
This article looks at the work of Faith E. Lutze, an associate professor in the Department of Criminal Justice and Criminology at Washington State University, whose book, “Professional Lives of Community Corrections Officers: The Invisible Side of Reentry,” confronts a significant deficit in our knowledge of how probation and parole officers serve as links between law enforcement, the courts, and corrections. In many ways, these boundary spanners play a critical role in making things work (or not work) in community corrections.Keywords: Probation and parole officer work experiences
Affiliations:
1: Co-Editor of Offender Programs Report.