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Institutional And Community Corrections –

cja383

(3 credits)

This course is a survey of the punishment phase of the criminal justice system, including the history, evolution, and process of American corrections. It provides an overview of corrections, including the persons, agencies, and organizations that manage criminals. Jails and prisons are described, including portrayals of inmates and their characteristics, and administrative operations. Other issues examined include overcrowding, inmate rights, privatization, the emergence of community corrections, female prisoners, and juveniles.
This undergraduate-level course is 5 weeks. To enroll, speak with an Enrollment Advisor.

  • The Future of Corrections

    • Assess future correctional practices.

    • Identify future correctional research objectives.

    • Anticipate future correctional problems.

    • Estimate future correctional populations.

    • Discuss future correctional philosophies.

  • Correctional Law and Inmate Litigation

    • Discuss capital punishment and prisoner litigation.

    • Identify recent trends in litigation by prison and jail inmates.

    • Describe the issues raised by correctional lawsuits.

    • Understand the laws and litigation dealing with probation and parole.

    • Discuss correctional litigation and post-conviction relief.

    • Review the history of correctional litigation.

  • Administration of Corrections Programs

    • Understand inmate management.

    • Identify modern management tasks.

    • Discuss the issues facing correctional managers.

    • Learn various leadership styles.

    • Conduct an overview of the bureaucracy.

    • Understand concepts of correctional administration and management.

  • The Staff Work World and Corrections Careers

    • Discuss correctional job prospects.

    • Learn how to find about jobs, internships, and cooperative education experiences.

    • Identify workplace challenges

    • Review the responsibilities of institutional corrections officers, probation and parole officers, correctional counselors, community corrections personnel, and other correctional positions.

  • Community Corrections

    • List community alternatives for juveniles.

    • Discuss house arrest and electronic monitoring.

    • Review the concepts of community service.

    • Learn about fines, forfeitures, and restitution.

    • Understand the concept of diversion.

    • Discuss "reentry programs" as community based corrections.

    • Define community corrections and intermediate punishments.

  • Probation and Parole

    • Understand issues related to probation for juvenile offenders.

    • Describe contemporary probation and parole services.

    • Discuss the duties of probation and parole officers.

    • Understand the violations of probation and parole.

    • Discuss the administration of probation and parole.

    • Learn the history of probation and parole.

  • Inmates

    • Understand juvenile inmate characteristics and issues.

    • Discuss violence in correctional institutions.

    • Understand prison and jail cultures.

    • Contrast jail inmate characteristics.

    • Identify prison inmate characteristics.

  • Prison Systems

    • Understand the issues related to juvenile corrections.

    • Learn about state prisons.

    • Review the federal prison system.

    • Discuss the concept of labor in prisons.

    • Understand the issues of women and prison.

    • Learn the types of functions of prisons.

    • Discuss prisoner management and related issues.

    • View prisons as total institutions.

  • Jails and Detention Facilities

    • Identify other local detention facilities.

    • Determine the major issues with jails and detention facilities.

    • Learn about jail employees.

    • Understand the administration process for jails.

    • Learn the physical plant of jails.

    • Explore the variations in jail use.

    • Understand the issues related to jails and women.

    • Examine contemporary jails and detention facilities
    • Discuss the history of jails.

  • Sentencing and Criminal Sanctions

    • Identify special sentencing considerations for juveniles.

    • Discuss what comes after the verdict and the appeals process.

    • Learn sentencing strategies.

    • Understand sentencing decisions.

  • History of Punishment and Corrections

    • Understand penitentiary reform in the 19th Century.

    • Discuss the Pennsylvania and Auburn Systems.

    • Learn about prison reform and penitentiaries.

    • Review early history and the Age of Enlightenment.

  • Purposes and Philosophies of Corrections

    • Discuss various corrections programs.

    • Understand the the role of criminal theory.

    • Review philosophies of punishment.

    • Learn the meaning of corrections.

  • The University of Phoenix reserves the right to modify courses.
  • 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.

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