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2018-2019 Graduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

CRM 6010G - Prison, Incarceration, and the Treatment of Convicted Persons

Credits: 4
This course is designed to allow students to examine relevant legal and social policy issues concerning the corrections system in the United States, a system characterized by having among the highest rates of incarceration in the world. Students will survey the history, the philosophy, and the ideology that underlie the prison apparatus as presently administered at the federal, state, county, and local level. The probation, parole, and community corrections systems and their respective roles in the corrections system will be critically analyzed in an effort to evaluate current and future best practices. The inmate experience and subsequent prisoner reentry and reintegration practices and policies will be reviewed with particular attention given to the experiences of women, minorities, and juveniles in the corrections system.