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CORRECTIONAL LEADERSHIP examines how organizational culture is related to effective correctional leadership. It highlights the importance of changing trends in corrections, specifically institutional corrections. The text also illustrates the advantages of viewing the operations of prisons in various ways for successful adaptation to changing political, economic, and social environments of the outside world. This text shows why leadership is a central factor in prison effectiveness.

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1. Correctional Leadership and Organizational Culture. 2. Organizational Culture: Theoretical and Organizational Issues. 3. The Organizational Culture of Corrections. 4. Correctional Officers and Their Culture. 5. Correctional Leaders: The Administrator Culture. 6. Creating, Transmitting, and Transforming Correctional Culture. 7. Correctional Leadership: The 21st Century.

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Mary Ann Farkas is Associate Professor and Associate Chair of the Department of Social and Cultural Sciences at Marquette University. She teaches Corrections; Correctional Management and Policy Analysis; Women, Crime, and Criminal Justice; and Research Methods and Program Evaluation in the Criminology and Law Studies major. Her research interests are sex offender laws, policies and practices, women and crime, and correctional administration. She has recently published THE DILEMMA OF THE SEXUAL OFFENDER with Dr. George Palermo. In addition, she is an instructor in the California Leadership Institute for the California Department of Corrections. Stan Stojkovic (Ph.D., Michigan State University) is Professor of Criminal Justice and Dean in the Helen Bader School of Social Welfare at University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, where he has taught since 1983. His primary teaching responsibilities and interests are in the areas of corrections, public administration, philosophy, delinquency, and criminology. His major research interest is in the area of correctional administration. He has authored or co-authored several other textbooks in addition to CRIMINAL JUSTICE INSTITUTIONS: ADMINISTRATION AND MANAGEMENT, including an introductory text on corrections with Rick Lovell. He has been a presenter at professional conferences, and his essays and reviews have been published in such journals as Pace Law Review and Criminal Justice Policy Review; a forthcoming essay on prison administration will appear in the ENCYCLOPEDIA OF CRIMINOLOGY AND CRIMINAL JUSTICE. In addition, he has served as coordinator of the California Leadership Institute for the California Department of Corrections, and most recently as fiduciary agent for a High Intensity Drug Traffic Area Grant funded through the Office of National Drug Control Policy.

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