Dr Susan J Jones
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The issue of boundary violations between corrections staff and inmates is one of the most serious and complex problems that correctional leaders face.
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While in the process of completing my dissertation on this topic, my advisor (a non-corrections person) asked me, “how big of a problem can this really be?
I laughed, until I realized that it was a sad reflection on the professionalism of all corrections employees. As I have traveled in the United States, discussing this topic, I have yet to meet a single corrections professional that didn’t have a “story” to tell me about a boundary violation. Not all of these stories made it to the national news like the escape from Dannemora, but they all were deeply disturbing to the people involved.
So, why can’t corrections professionals eliminate this type of behavior? Can it really be that hard? The answer I found lies in the unwillingness to look at this issue from all sides and to accept some of the blame as belonging to the organization. This book is an attempt to provide the reader a guide to examine all of the sides of this issue in an effort to craft a response that just might reduce or eliminate future boundary violations. The examination of the issue, the training curriculum, and the scenarios provided can be used as building blocks to any agency response. The Boundary Violations Model is provided as a tool to direct the response.
Corrections professionals need to made this a fixable problem!
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