Research Catalog

Title

Volunteers in corrections / by Gordon H. Barker.

Author

Barker, Gordon H.

Publication

[Washington, D.C. : President's Commission on Law Enforcement and Administration of Justice], 1967.

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Additional Authors

United States. President's Commission on Law Enforcement and Administration of Justice

Description

65, [1] p.; 28 cm.

Summary

This is a report containing the comments on the case for volunteers in general, extent of their usage, reasons for becoming a volunteer, and use of volunteers in the future. Ongoing programs involving volunteer in the field of corrections are described and evaluated. Letters are included from agencies which have used the services of volunteers. A series of recommendations covers the areas into which corrections might move with the aid of volunteers.

Subject

Volunteer workers in corrections > United States

Bibliography (note)

• Bibliography: [1] p., following p. 65.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Volunteers in corrections -- Part I. Description of current volunteer programs in corrections -- Part II. An assessment of the appropriateness and efficacy of volunteer programs in corrections -- Letters to Dr. Gordon Baker -- Statement submitted by Dr. Leonard J. Pinto -- Statement submitted by Dr. Ivan Scheier -- Statement submitted by Robert H. Hughes : volunteers in the New Start Project -- Statement of Judge Leenhouts -- Part III. Recommendations for the future of the use of volunteers in the field of corrections -- Footnotes.

OCLC

• 14396241
• SCSB-9910908

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Harvard Library