CJ& 105 Corrections in America (5 credits)
Distribution Area Fulfilled Social Sciences; General Transfer Elective
Formerly CJ 140
Course Description
A study of the history and ideologies of punishment and corrections, sanctioning and reintegration policies, and practices in the criminal justice system. Survey of programs, issues, and trends, and effects on communities relating to the corrections.
Course Content
1. broad range of adult and juvenile corrections terminologies
2. history of corrections and the theories of punishment, and these effects on current
correctional policy and practices in the U.S.
3. management of diverse inmate populations (i.e. race, gender, sexual orientation, etc.)
and how the corrections field addresses these issues
4. incarceration, supervision, and alternate sentencing affects on individuals, families, and
society
5. capital punishment, the multiple views and implications
6. the correctional system from arrest to final release from custody or
supervision
7. differences and similarities of various correctional facilities and jurisdictions, including for-profit prisons and immigration/detention centers
8. correctional personnel roles, to include: command roles, management issues, and discretionary powers
9. jail or prison life, to include (but not limited to): inmate norms, inmate rights, facility rules, inmate interactions, facility overcrowding, and violence
10. factors that may influence recidivism.
11. student’s personal bias’, values and beliefs associated with criminal justice and correctional policy
12. the impact of “discretionary” powers of correctional personnel
13. the impact of correctional policy through an intersectional and multicultural lens
14. theories regarding Restorative Justice, Reintegration and Rehabilitation
Student Outcomes
1. Students will analyze the components and processes of the US correctional system.
2. Students will communicate diverse perspectives and impacts of the correctional system on groups of people through an historical, intersectional, and multicultural lens.
3. Students will engage with, discuss, and analyze contemporary issues, (e.g. recidivism, capital punishment, privatization of prisons, sustainability), in the US correctional system through an intersectional and multicultural lens.
4. Students will explore their positionality and biases and how these impact their view of the correctional system.
Degree Outcomes
Program Outcome: Graduates will communicate appropriately based on topic, audience and situation.
Social Sciences: Graduates analyze and interpret social phenomenon using social science theories and methods.
Effective Communication: Graduates will be able to exchange messages in a variety of contexts using multiple methods.
Lecture Contact Hours 50
Lab Contact Hours 0
Clinical Contact Hours 0
Total Contact Hours 50
Potential Methods
A. Project
B. Group activities
C. Instructor evaluations
D. Peer evaluation
E. Self evaluation
F. Presentation
G. Paper
H. Class discussion
I. Objective test
J. Essay
K. Portfolio
L. Seminar
M. Subjective test
N. Role play
O. Oral test
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