CJ 144 Corrections Special Populations and Case Management (5 credits)
Course Description
An examination of specific correctional populations, their impact on the correctional systems, and current correctional case management practices, theories, public policies, strategies and techniques.
Course Content
A. Overview of case management
B. Causation theories of behavior
C. Case management in various correctional settings, i.e. juvenile and adult institutions, probation and community supervision
D. Interviewing styles and neuro-linquistics (non-verbal communication styles)
E. Case management policies, strategies and assessment instruments
F. Characteristics, criteria for designation of special populations, treatment plans and intervention within the criminal justice system, and cultural issues of the following special populations; including, however, not limited to
1. Juvenile offenders
2. Sexual offenders
3. Disabled offenders
4. Female offenders
5. Vulnerable adults
6. Geriatric offenders
7. Mentally Ill offenders
8. Tribal/First Nations offenders
9. Addicted/substance abusing offenders
10. LGBTQ offenders
G. Laws and legislative action of the criminal justice system pertaining to various special populations in corrections
Student Outcomes
1. Administer various assessment instruments used in correctional case management.
2. Demonstrate interviewing skills while using an assessment instrument.
3. Develop case management plans and data using current instruments being used in the field of corrections in the state of Washington.
4. Compare and contrast various case management strategies currently being used with juveniles and adults in corrections and with specific populations.
5. Explore the impact of one’s personal bias when working as a case manager.
6. Communicate expectations to a client in a clear and thoughtful manner.
7. Acknowledge the impact of one’s personal ethics and behaviors in corrections.
8. Identify the specific population client’s effect on the criminal justice system to include financial, legal, and personnel issues.
9. Recognize the impact on the specific population offender’s ability to function in the correctional system with the “label” of “special population”.
10. Articulate how the penal system responds to meet the needs of specific population offenders’ current issues and challenges.
11. Identify and articulate institutional and community programs available for specific populations of offenders and explain how the offenders access these programs.
12. Articulate the historical impact of specific populations on the criminal justice system and the system’s ability to address them.
Degree Outcomes
Programs Outcome: Graduates will critically evaluate past, present and future discrimination and privilege of individuals, societies, groups and institutions.
Critical, Creative, and Reflective Thinking: Graduates will evaluate, analyze, synthesize, and generate ideas; construct informed, meaningful, and justifiable conclusions; and process feelings, beliefs, biases, strengths, and weaknesses as they relate to their thinking, decisions, and creations.
Intercultural Engagement: Graduates demonstrate self-efficacy in intercultural engagement to advance equity, diversity, and inclusion through reflections and expressions of cultural humility, empathy, and social and civic engagement and action. Further, graduates examine how identities/positionalities such as races, social classes, genders, sexual orientations, disabilities, and cultures impact perceptions, actions, and the distribution of power and privilege in communities, systems, and institutions.
Global Citizenship: Graduates will be able to critically examine the relationship between self, community, and/or environments, and to evaluate and articulate potential impacts of choices, actions, and contributions for the creation of sustainable and equitable systems.
Lecture Contact Hours 50
Lab Contact Hours 0
Clinical Contact Hours 0
Total Contact Hours 50
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