Why is managing the external environment so important for contemporary correctional administrators?
What will be an ideal response?
Answers should contain the following discussion points:
Over the history of corrections, few people paid it any attention. But with increasing media coverage of crime, people began to fear for their safety and worried about the potential of victimization. And with tightening public budgets, public officials are looking at ways to reduce correctional costs. As well, crime and correction policies are important to the public and elected officials. Correctional administrators cannot ignore that activities around them and must know how to operate and influence the external environment with the media, political leaders, and public opinion. Without the correctional administrator proactively involved and knowing how to work within each one, messages are sent; opinions made; and positions taken that cannot be changed later on. Correctional administrators are more likely to get in trouble for mishandling the external environment that for things they do to manage their internal environment.
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