CRIM 1020 - Introduction to Corrections

4.5 Credits

Students learn about corrections as a systematic process, including the evolving changes within institutional and community-based corrections. Topics include the history of corrections, the influence of social thought and philosophy on the development of corrections, the rights of the incarcerated inmate, and the duties of the correctional officer.

Lecture Hours: 4.5
Lab Hours: 0.0
Internship Hours: 0.0
Clinical or Practicum Hours: 0.0

Course Objectives

Explain the evolution of the correction’s process.
Describe the difference between jails, prisons, and other components of the correction’s process.
Examine the effectiveness/ineffectiveness of community-based corrections, probation, parole, and other alternatives to incarceration.
Discuss the pros and cons of private prisons.
Assess the advantages and disadvantages of coed prisons.
Contrast military and civilian corrections.
Compare the American system of corrections with those of designated foreign countries.
Dichotomize the adult and juvenile correctional process.
Explain several criminological theories of crime causation.
Differentiate between institutional treatment and institutional custody procedures.
Debate the concept of punishments (including capital punishment) from the perspectives of religion, sociology, and the 8^th Amendment.
Describe the prisoner classification systems, including inmates who fit into the “special population” category.
Evaluate the methods of administration for the various components of the correctional process.

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