Introduction To Corrections –

cja234

(3 credits)

This course is an introduction to the various components of the corrections system within the criminal justice system. It provides an overview of corrections, including corrections history, the persons, agencies, and organizations that manage convicted offenders. Other topics that are covered include policy and procedure, sentencing, probation, and rehabilitations of prisoners.

This undergraduate-level course is 5 weeks. To enroll, speak with an Enrollment Advisor.

Topics and Objectives

History and Development of Corrections
- Identify the forms of punishment most often used in societies throughout the 1700’s.
- Compare and contrast prisons during and after World War II.
- Examine the penitentiary ideal.
- Examine the move toward separate prisons for women and juveniles.
- Compare the two contrasting models of American Prisons.
- Describe the rise and fall of labor in prison.
Correctional Systems
- Describe the jail’s place in corrections and its role throughout history.
- Identify problems within jails.
- Explain the reasons for the growth of state prison systems.
- Examine the differing security levels in state and federal institutions.
- Describe the history of state and federal prisons.
Correctional Policy & Procedures
- Analyze the principal objectives of punishment.
- Assess the impact of sentencing on corrections.
- Define the prison warden’s role today.
- Identify the influence of the prison environment on management and custody.
- Describe the methods of secure custody in prison.
- Discern the trends in corrections officer professionalization and the accreditation movement in corrections.
- Define prison privatization.
Prisoners
- Classify the background of male and female prisoners.
- Compare how state and federal prisoners differ.
- Compare how jail and prison inmates differ.
- Analyze the evolution and perspectives of prison life.
- Examine the extent and nature of prison violence.
- Identify the needs of special, juvenile, mentally ill and substance abusing prisoners.
- Evaluate alternatives to litigation.
Correctional Alternatives
- Define the origins of rehabilitation in prison.
- Describe parole and other options for getting out of prison.
- Critique parole and mandatory release today.
- Examine probation as a sentence and process.
- Identify the options available under community corrections.
- Describe how other nations view the use of imprisonment.

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While widely available, not all programs are available in all locations or in both online and on-campus formats. Please check with a University Enrollment Advisor.
Transferability of credit is at the discretion of the receiving institution. It is the student’s responsibility to confirm whether or not credits earned at University of Phoenix will be accepted by another institution of the student’s choice.

Introduction To Corrections –

cja234

History and Development of Corrections

Correctional Systems

Correctional Policy & Procedures

Prisoners

Correctional Alternatives

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