Offers individuals a practical preparation for communicating with offenders. This book provides information, systems that have stood the test of time in American prisons and appropriate and effective counsellor attitudes.

Counseling Criminal Justice Offenders, Second Edition takes a practical view of offenders, their problems, and the difficulties counselors face working with them in criminal justice settings. Author Ruth E. Masters examines criminal justice counseling on an individual and group basis and in a variety of settings such as prisons, probation and parole agencies, diversion programs, group homes, halfway houses, prerelease facilities, and U.S. jails. The book also explores the many faces of offenders young, old, male, female, and across many cultures. The Second Edition of Counseling Criminal...