Counseling Criminal Justice Offenders - Softcover

Masters, Ruth E.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0803955332 ISBN 13: 9780803955332

Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc, 1994

Synopsis

This unique contribution to the field of criminal offender counselling is designed to provide practitioners and trainees with the practical preparation required for working with offenders. The author examines in depth the problems of the offender, the counselling process, the laws counsellors must be familiar with, proven modalities in United States corrections and effective counsellor attitudes.

About this title

Review:

"Excellent book, the best I have read." (John McCullogh 2009-03-19)

About the Author:

Professor Ruth Masters has been teaching criminal justice counseling courses at California State University, Fresno since 1970. In addition, she has had hands-on, practical counseling experience in both adult and juvenile criminal justice systems. She has worked as a parole agent for the California Department of Corrections and the California Youth Authority. Her research can be described as a unique blending of theoretical and practical, which includes work in both corrections and law enforcement. Her textbook, Counseling Criminal Justice Offenders (1994), is published by Sage Publications.

Dr. Masters is a member of American Society of Criminology; Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences; Western Society of Criminology; Women's Criminal Justice Association; California Probation, Parole and Correctional Association; and California State Juvenile Officers' Association. She received her master's degree in criminology from California State University, Fresno; and her bachelor's degree in sociology from the University of California, Berkeley.

About this edition

• Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0803955332
• ISBN 13: 9780803955332
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 256