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:
- Discuss the history of jails.
- Discuss the early history of crime and society’s response to criminal acts.
- Define and discuss corporal punishment.
- Define and discuss capital punishment.
- Define and discuss banishment.
- Identify the changes that occurred during “The Age of Enlightenment and Reform”.
- Identify detention vs. incarceration.
- Define early cellular prisons.
- Discuss the history and modern imposition of the death penalty.
- Discuss the history and role of probation in the court system.
- 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:
- Define correctional ideologies - punishment, treatment, prevention.
- Discuss how conflicting correctional ideologies affect sentencing of individuals.
- Define the rights of an individual during the sentencing process.
- Describe due process of law.
- Define the path of a criminal case.
- Define the mechanics of a criminal case appeal.
- Describe diversion programs and intermediate sanctions.
- Describe the various classifications of probationers.
- Identify a probation order.
- Describe violations of probation.
- Determine the best use of boot camps.
- Define paroling authority
- Define the classification of parolees
- Discuss the purpose of parole and parole revocation.
- Discuss problems facing parole system.
- 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:
- Define jail populations and characteristics.
- Discuss jail overcrowding and personnel problems.
- Observe functioning of local jail.
- Discuss the history of prisons.
- Discuss prison design and classification.
- Identify state and local prisons.
- Discuss the federal prison system.
- Define prison custody functions.
- Discuss prison management and treatment functions.
- Discuss prison riots.
- Describe characteristics of male offenders in the prison system.
- Describe characteristics of female offenders in the prison system.
- Discuss juvenile incarceration.
- Define special category prisoners: mentally ill, sex offenders, HIV.
- Define basic Inmate rights.
- Define and discuss the civil rights of inmates.
- 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:
- Discuss issues pertaining to preparing Inmate to return to community.
- Define and discuss private sector prisons.
- Discuss ethics for the criminal justice professional.
- Define and discuss the future of corrections with a changing society.
- 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.
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- 2. The graduate can demonstrate how to think competently.
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- The graduate can demonstrate how to employ mathematical knowledge.
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- 4. The graduate can demonstrate how to communicate competently.
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- 5. The graduate is sensitive to issues relating to a diverse, global society.
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COURSE CONTENT OUTLINE
- Sentencing; The purpose of corrections and history
- History: Roman, Middle Ages, early America
- Early use of corporal and capital punishment
- Modern sentencing goals, laws, and theories
- Modern use of the death penalty
- Probation; Parole; Community corrections
- Pre-sentence investigation
- Officer’s role in court
- Classification and probation orders
- Accountability of probationer/violations
- Court cases involving probation and parole
- Boot camps
- Paroling authority
- Purpose and problems of parole system
- Community corrections and new technology
- Prisons; Jails; Life inside prison
- Jails: design, history, problems
- Prison designs and eras in America
- Problems: overcrowding, security levels, classification of prisoners, cost factors
- Federal, state, and juvenile prisons
- Prison life for men, women, and juveniles
- Prison conditions and riots
- Court cases involving inmate rights
- The future of corrections; Ethics; Careers in corrections
- Privatization of corrections
- Need for change in system and society
- Ethics for corrections’ professionals
- 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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