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CRJ 120 - Intro to Corrections


Last Date of Approval: Spring 2019

3 Credits
Total Lecture Hours: 45
Course Description:
This course is designed for students majoring or exploring the field of criminal justice. This course provides an in-depth look at the past, present, and future of corrections. It examines the purposes of correctional punishment throughout history and highlights the many subcomponents of modern-day corrections. We will focus on issues facing the correctional enterprise today and gain an appreciation for contemporary real-world correctional practice. This course will help students refine their critical thinking skills as they evaluate various topics and concepts while searching for underlying connections between the concepts, which is a skill that should be beneficial in criminal justice careers. Students will also be able to review the career opportunities available in the progressive field of corrections.

Prerequisites/Corequisites: None

Mode(s) of Instruction: Traditional/face to face, online

Credit for Prior Learning: This course offers an opportunity for students to earn Credit for Prior Learning for skills that they have brought with them to Iowa Central. For more information, please ask the instructor and see the Iowa Central Community College catalog.

Course Fees: none

Common Course Assessment(s): none

Student Learning Outcomes and Objectives:
Student Learning Outcomes:

• Describe the history of corrections and its development to present day form. Differentiate state and federal correctional agencies.
• Explain criteria pertaining to sentencing supervision including jail, probation, prison and parole.
• Explore the relationships of various sources of legal authority to the development of laws impacting corrections.
• Describe the differences in the social structure between correctional facilities for men and women. 

Objectives:

• Explain how corrections has changed in the last decade in the United States.

• Describe the different levels of correctional administration.

• Identify and describe different treatment programs for prison inmates.

• Explain the relationship of law to corrections, court cases, rights of prisoners/correctional employees and liabilities.

• Discuss planned and unplanned effects of incarceration.

• Identify the causes of prison violence and methods to reduce it.

• Compare and contrast the advantages and disadvantages of probation vs. prison.

• Define Evidence Based Practices as it applies to treatment interventions and its impact on recidivism.

• Explain the reentry process and how it relates to effective reintegration of the offender into the community.



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