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Dec 21, 2024
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2024-2025 WWCC College Catalog
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CJ& 105 - Introduction to Corrections Credits: 5 LEC hours per week: 5 This course examines the historical context, philosophical concepts, and major theories that have shaped the United States corrections system into its present form. Primary topics of interest include correctional policies, programs, approaches, and contemporary correctional issues, as well as the role of corrections in the larger criminal justice system, with special emphasis on the corrections system effects on inmates, families, and society. Formerly: CJ 105. Course Outcomes:
- Apply a broad range of adult and juvenile corrections terminology.
- Describe the history of corrections and punishment theories and their effects on current correctional policy and practices in the United States.
- Explain the different ways inmate populations (e.g. race, gender, sexual orientation, geriatric, etc.) are managed within correctional facilities.
- Analyze how incarceration, community corrections, and alternate sentencing affects individuals, families, and society.
- Examine the correctionai system’s process, punishments, and civil penalties.
- Compare how different correctional approaches affect criminal desistence and overall recidivism rates.
- Define the roles of correctional personnel, such as command roles, management issues, and discretionary powers.
- Examine life within jails and prisons with particular focus on inmate norms, inmate rights, facilities rules, in mate interactions, facility overcrowding, violence, and culture.
Course Topics:
- Past and present correctional system
- Punishment theories, correctional policies and practices
- Types of correctional sanctions, inmate populations, and roles of correctional personnel
- Inmate life within correctional institutions and reentry to society
- Prison privatization, women and juvenile correctional facilities
- Correctional challenges and perspectives
Course Attribute(s): None
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