Issues in Corrections

Catalog description

This is an advanced seminar in corrections aimed at graduate (MA) students. This course examines both institutional as well as community corrections although the emphasis--as in real life--is placed on incarceration. Students will read (and think) extensively on timely issues surrounding contemporary corrections including: prisons, jails, probation and parole, inmate perspectives, institutional misconduct/disorder/violence, rehabilitation/treatment programming, gender, family-related concerns, and reentry. Thus, this course provides a broad foundation of information on US corrections today.