Research-Who Needs It?

If the correctional administrator is to do his job of improving his agency's programs on the basis of experience, he will have to adopt some aspects of the scientist's role. To increase his own ef fectiveness (and that of his agency) he will need a questioning attitude, a determination to test his beliefs or hunches by de manding evidence for and against them, and an ability to plan programs in such a way that he will know at the end whether or not they achieved their missions.