Community Corrections.

Catalog description

This course analyzes community corrections with a comprehensive study of probation, parole, and intermediate sanctions. The history of community corrections as well as the modern state of community corrections are examined. Students will critically analyze community-based corrections through an evidence-based practice approach. Students will identify challenges as well as examine the effectiveness of management techniques and implementation of community corrections. This course will include in-depth discussion of community corrections from the view point of individuals sentenced to community corrections, practitioners in the field of community corrections, as well as society.