Women Corrections Executives - by Kimberly Collica-Cox (Hardcover)

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Through firsthand accounts this book explores women's roles from their initial entry into corrections work through their careers to executive roles, documenting their successes and struggles.

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Kimberly Collica-Cox's book, Women Corrections Executives: The Keys to Reaching the Top, is a seminal work on women's role in the management of correctional institutions. Collica-Cox bases her work on both quantitative and qualitative data, firsthand accounts, and survey analyses, which, among other things, shed light on how women perceive their experiences as corrections executives, their motives for climbing the career ladder through promotion, and the challenges they face as they attempt to succeed in a male-dominated environment. Her book is a groundbreaking work that gives one of the first systematic, thoroughly evidence based, accounts of women's career trajectories and impact on the correctional system. This outstanding book is required reading for anyone interested in the criminal justice system, gender studies, current affairs, and the changing nature of prison populations.

The correctional workplace has always evoked images of steel ceilings and iron ladders for those women correctional professionals who aspire to climb to the top in this still male-dominated field. In Women Corrections Executives, Kimberly Collica-Cox sets the record straight by giving 58 women correctional executives the opportunity to clearly and articulately voice their career path histories and trajectories. Acknowledging the groundbreaking work of the early prison and jail 'matrons', the book documents today's female corrections leaders' continued career growth challenges in gender bias, small representation in the upper ranks, and family-work life balance issues. Yet, the women's stories evoke pride, job satisfaction, and 'toughness', echoing their contributions via unique leadership and management styles and openness to change with cutting-edge rehabilitation programming, Clearly, this book is a must-read for young women entering correctional employment. Women Corrections Executives illustrates the many opportunities awaiting them from the testimonials of successful female executive work mentors who have scaled the ladders and breached the ceilings of correctional work environments.

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