A Corrections Workforce for the 21st Century

Developing a community supervision workforce for the 21st century requires a marriage of empirical science (what we can do and how we can do it) with guiding values (what we should do). Drawing from the Risk-Need-Responsivity model, the author proposes that building a culture of effective practice will call for bridging the gap between the lived experience of probation officers and the what, how, and why of what they ought to be doing.