Why do we research unit management in correctional facilities? The research was necessitated by a fundamental need to change the way in which South Africa deals with sentenced inmates. The country boasts one of the highest international recidivism rates.

Content

• Philosophy of unit management
• The normative horizon: Some international legal principles
• Architecture and structuring
• Case management
• Direct supervision in correctional environments
• Risk management: Correctional facility phenomena
• Risk and needs responsiveness: Inmates with special needs
• Case management in female correctional facilities
• Unit and case management in a youth correctional facility: A South African case study
• Security management in correctional facilities
• Human rights and unit management
• Human rights of inmates in the context of incarceration
• Legal liability based on negligent conduct or negligence
• Legally valid decision-making in unit management