Abstract
Correction can contribute to resolving the broad social prob lem of automation-induced unemployment as well as its own professional manpower problem by developing new roles for non professionals (including the offender group) in correctional pro grams. There are already solid bases in theory and experience for such roles in self-help, research and self-study, staff training, program planning, and various subprofessional tasks. These roles need to be given official status in personnel classification and com pensation structures, and career ladders need to be developed. Professionals need not be alarmed on either humanitarian or self-interest grounds, but they will need to adapt imaginatively to new training and supervisory functions in relation to non professionals incorporated into the professional structure. The War on Poverty provides special opportunities for developing and testing these new nonprofessional roles.
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