Criminology

There are various challenges which are encountered by prison administrator in the current world. Today has been a challenging time for prison administrator who is curbed with challenges during their administrative activities. There are priorities which are provided by the operations carried out in the prison. This includes security and safety as key issues (Gottfredson Stephen, 1987). Violence is a phenomenon which carries out the day in the modern world. This is challenge when administering management to prisons. The prison culture is defined by violence as major issues which need to be looked in to by prison administrator. Other challenges touching todays prison include programming which is inadequate, overcrowdingcongestion, visions of administrator, incompatible staff. Another challenge surrounding todays prison is the issue of surveillance (Wortley Richard, 2002).The surveillance in todays prison is insufficient. This leaves a vacuum on security issues. These loopholes pose a big challenge to prison administrator.

There are external influences which affect the manner todays prisons are run. This has posed a challenge to prison administrator. There has emerged a certain management due to external influence in todays prison. There are various models adopted in prison management shared power model, control of inmate, automatic model and the Bureaucratic model.

Violence is normally considered as induced phenomena due to organization failure. Prison violence and management are issues which are widely covered in every sitting and thus are not new issues. Policies binding prisons change over time raising turmoil on prison administration. The causes of violence remain an issue which requires more explanation.  Prison administrators perform activities which may be unconstitutional. This includes imprisonment rates which are introduced to offenders.

Having highlighted on the challenges encountered by prison administrator it is also good to look in to the way out of such menace. Prison administrator should be aware about the commonality of violence and the ways to handle it. Our prisons are governed by policies. The enactment of such policies determines the manner the prisons will be manned. Prison managers should be involved in policy discourse, enactment and also policy implementation.