Probation, Parole & Sanctions

Catalog description

This course examines the evolution and practice of community-based graduated and intermediate sanctions in corrections, classification and risk, punishment and treatment, cost-effectiveness, and evidence-based methods. Emphasis on social offender populations including mental health needs, sex offenders, gender/gender-identity, and the un-sheltered are considered as well as justice reinvestment, pre-release, supervision, re-entry, and the impact on the community and on victims.