Correctional Systems

Catalog description

This course is designed to be a comprehensive overview of our government's response to convicted criminal offenders. The origins, evolution, processes, and current problems of correctional systems will be the topics of study. More specifically, the course will cover the history of corrections in the United States, short-term detention, state and federal prisons, inmate topologies, capital punishment, correctional law, probation/parole, and community corrections.