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Official Course Syllabi 2020-2021 
    
Official Course Syllabi 2020-2021 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

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LAWE 1120 - Introduction to Corrections

Credit Hours: 3.00


Prerequisites: None

(formerly LAWE 2911)

This course introduces the philosophy and history of correctional agencies and processes, including incarceration, probation, and parole.

Contact Hours: 3
Billable Contact Hours: 3
OUTCOMES AND OBJECTIVES
Outcome 1: Upon completion of this course the student will be able to demonstrate the role of corrections in the criminal justice system.

Objectives: The student will:

  1. Discuss the history of jails.
  2. Discuss the early history of crime and society’s response to criminal acts.
  3. Define and discuss corporal punishment.
  4. Define and discuss capital punishment.
  5. Define and discuss banishment.
  6. Identify the changes that occurred during “The Age of Enlightenment and Reform”.
  7. Identify detention vs. incarceration.
  8. Define early cellular prisons.
  9. Discuss the history and modern imposition of the death penalty.
  10. Discuss the history and role of probation in the court system.
  11. Complete a pre-sentence report from interview to report completion.

Outcome 2: Upon completion of this course the student will be able to identify community-based corrections.

Objectives: The student will:

  1. Define correctional ideologies - punishment, treatment, prevention.
  2. Discuss how conflicting correctional ideologies affect sentencing of individuals.
  3. Define the rights of an individual during the sentencing process.
  4. Describe due process of law.
  5. Define the path of a criminal case.
  6. Define the mechanics of a criminal case appeal.
  7. Describe diversion programs and intermediate sanctions.
  8. Describe the various classifications of probationers.
  9. Identify a probation order.
  10. Describe violations of probation.
  11. Determine the best use of boot camps.
  12. Define paroling authority
  13. Define the classification of parolees
  14. Discuss the purpose of parole and parole revocation.
  15. Discuss problems facing parole system.
  16. Identify community corrections and technology for community supervision.

Outcome 3: Upon completion of this course the student will be able to describe the role of correctional facilities and the populations of those incarcerated in these facilities.

Objectives: The student will:

  1. Define jail populations and characteristics.
  2. Discuss jail overcrowding and personnel problems.
  3. Observe functioning of local jail.
  4. Discuss the history of prisons.
  5. Discuss prison design and classification.
  6. Identify state and local prisons.
  7. Discuss the federal prison system.
  8. Define prison custody functions.
  9. Discuss prison management and treatment functions.
  10. Discuss prison riots.
  11. Describe characteristics of male offenders in the prison system.
  12. Describe characteristics of female offenders in the prison system.
  13. Discuss juvenile incarceration.
  14. Define special category prisoners: mentally ill, sex offenders, HIV.
  15. Define basic Inmate rights.
  16. Define and discuss the civil rights of inmates.
  17. Discuss court cases concerning inmate rights.

Outcome 4: Upon completion of this course, the student will be able to describe special issues that face correctional professionals.

Objectives: The student will:

  1. Discuss issues pertaining to preparing Inmate to return to community.
  2. Define and discuss private sector prisons.
  3. Discuss ethics for the criminal justice professional.
  4. Define and discuss the future of corrections with a changing society.
  5. Locate career opportunities in corrections and educational requirements.

COMMON DEGREE OUTCOMES
(Bulleted outcomes apply to the course)

  • 1. The graduate can integrate the knowledge and technological skills necessary to be a successful learner.
  • 2. The graduate can demonstrate how to think competently.
  1. The graduate can demonstrate how to employ mathematical knowledge.
  • 4. The graduate can demonstrate how to communicate competently.
  • 5. The graduate is sensitive to issues relating to a diverse, global society.

COURSE CONTENT OUTLINE
  1. Sentencing; The purpose of corrections and history
    1. History: Roman, Middle Ages, early America
    2. Early use of corporal and capital punishment
    3. Modern sentencing goals, laws, and theories
    4. Modern use of the death penalty
  2. Probation; Parole; Community corrections
    1. Pre-sentence investigation
    2. Officer’s role in court
    3. Classification and probation orders
    4. Accountability of probationer/violations
    5. Court cases involving probation and parole
    6. Boot camps
    7. Paroling authority
    8. Purpose and problems of parole system
    9. Community corrections and new technology
  3. Prisons; Jails; Life inside prison
    1. Jails: design, history, problems
    2. Prison designs and eras in America
    3. Problems: overcrowding, security levels, classification of prisoners, cost factors
    4. Federal, state, and juvenile prisons
    5. Prison life for men, women, and juveniles
    6. Prison conditions and riots
    7. Court cases involving inmate rights
  4. The future of corrections; Ethics; Careers in corrections
    1. Privatization of corrections
    2. Need for change in system and society
    3. Ethics for corrections’ professionals
    4. Career opportunities and education required

Primary Faculty
Hliebay, Eugene
Secondary Faculty

Associate Dean
Lopez, Michael
Dean
Mirijanian, Narine



Official Course Syllabus - Macomb Community College, 14500 E 12 Mile Road, Warren, MI 48088



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