Criminal Justice Corrections

This course will focus on the theory and practice of correctional institutions and their functions, the prison as a total institution, characteristics of various types of correctional methods, analysis of the prison community, adjustment to prison life, impact of institutionalization, corrections in the community, and historical development.

This course focuses on the patterns and problems in sentencing offenders; the social investigation, treatment and counseling of offenders, including behavior modification; the release and processing of offenders, and efforts to reintegrate offenders into society.