Current Events in Social and Criminal Justice & the Prison System

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This course will follow current events in the national news. Students will be expected to evaluate and analyze the impact of social, political and economic issues and influences on the criminal justice systems, from the courts to the prison systems. This course will familiarize students with the structure and history of sentencing and corrections systems. Students will study our criminal justice system and identify problems in our system and sentencing laws and identify trends in sentencing and alternatives to incarceration.