Careering into corrections / Cleo Lynch.
Publisher: Glen Waverley, Victoria : Sid Harta Publishers, 2013Copyright date: ©2013Description: iii, 212 pages : portrait ; 22 cmContent type:- text
- still image
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781922086600 (paperback)
- 1922086606
- Careering into corrections : from housewife to prison officer : entering an alien world full of unwritten rules
- Lynch, Cleo
- Divorced women -- Biography
- Middle aged women -- Australia -- Biography
- Prison and prisoners -- Australia
- Life change events
- Correctional personnel -- New South Wales -- Biography
- Correctional personnel
- Correctional personnel -- Australia -- New South Wales -- Biography
- New South Wales
- Australian
- 365.92 23
Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Notes | Date due | Barcode | |
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Book | Jessie Street National Women's Library General Stacks | 365.92 LYN (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available for reference in the library and ILL | Signed by the author | 68156 |
Signed by the author.
Includes bibliographical references.
The disintegration of a marriage and a plummeting in financial and social status when in her late forties, leaves the author stranded with a limited income, custody of the two youngest children, a mortgage, no provision for her old age and an employment history fractured by part-time positions structured around family responsibilities. A recruitment advertisement for prison officers in the wake of the Nagle Royal Commission becomes the catalyst for a major career change with the New South Wales Department of Corrective Services, and catapults her into a world beyond her imagination. However, this choice launches her into a fulfilling, stimulating career, delivering not only financial security and a professional status, but also the privilege of working with dedicated colleagues and offenders and their families. Avoiding a catalogue of sensational revelations about staff and offenders, she narrates the experiences through the prism of a naive, middle-class housewife and mother with humour and compassion and tries to convey insights into, and a broader understanding of the many facets of the world of corrections and its links with society. Interwoven with these experiences are the challenges of adapting to the life of a single person and mother while completing a BA at Macquarie University. Retiring in her mid-sixties after a seventeen year career, she has no misgivings about her decision to work in this much-maligned industry.
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