Corrections

Catalog description

This course provides a comprehensive overview of the field of corrections. It explores agencies, practices and policies relevant to prisons, jails and probation and parole. Students examine both historic and contemporary punishment policies in the United States; sentencing structures; sociopolitical economic conditions that influence disparate sentencing and confinement; facility designs and how they correlate with inmate management philosophies; the legal aspects of the care, custody and control of inmates; the constitutional rights and civil liberties of inmates; security operations; and inmate treatment services.