Fourth Edition offers a comprehensive foundation of corrections that is practitioner-driven and grounded in modern research and theoretical origins. Experienced correctional practitioner, scholar, and author Robert D. Hanser shows readers how the corrections system works, from classification, security, and treatment, to demonstrating how and why correctional practices are implemented.

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