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Courses Offered in CORRECTIONS

The following courses are available for your Associate's degree. Each course provides you a unique educational experience. Each course is developed by an international staff of highly skilled instructors. The course material is updated to provide students with the latest current information in the subject.

Specialized Course

  • Course Name

  • Courses Description

  • Credit Hours

  • Fundamentals of Correctional Counseling

  • This course offers an overview of the foundations of offender counseling and rehabilitation. Psychodynamic, behavioral and group approaches are discussed as well as the diagnosis, assessment and classification as being the core strategies for identifying and responding to important security, mental health and treatment needs of the offender.

  • 6 Credits

  • Introduction to Crime and Punishment

  • This course will provide an opportunity for you to examine and confront one of the most vexing criminal justice issues – how should we punish those who break our laws. This course will explore theories of criminal punishment in the context of examining the historical evolution of sentencing policies and procedures.

  • 6 Credits

  • Research Methods in Corrections

  • This course discusses the research methods used in corrections. It introduces Criminal Justice Research Methods along different aspects of each method. It includes topics such as Sampling and Survey Research, Secondary Analysis, and Ethics in Criminal Justice Research.

  • 6 Credits

  • Special Topics in Corrections

  • This course considers special topics in corrections that are not ordinarily evaluated in depth in other courses, such as the Issues and Trends in Policing, Dynamics of the Criminal Court, and Criminal Trial.

  • 6 Credits

  • Introduction to Probation and Parole

  • This course presents an examination of the theory and practice of probation and parole, including pre-sentence investigation, supervision of probationers, parole administration and services, treatment theory, parole officers, juvenile services, and new concepts (such as community-based corrections) that have impacted traditional probation and parole theory.

  • 6 Credits

Fundamentals of Correctional Counseling

Topics Covered in This Course:
  In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
    The notion of special needs offenders
    Risk assessment, diagnosis, classification, and recidivism prediction of offenders
  In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Substance abusers and substance abuse programs
    Offenders with communicable diseases
  In Section 3 of this exam you will be evaluated on below listed topics:
    Mentally disordered offenders; commonalities, assessment and treatment
    Offenders with learning disabilities and mental retardation
  In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Special needs of early childhood offenders
    The child adolescent offender as a special needs offender
  In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Gang members as special needs offenders
    Juvenile sex offenders as special needs offenders
    Domestic batterers as special needs offenders
    Female offenders as special offenders
    Special needs of geriatric offenders
    Restorative justice, mediation, and sentencing circles: their applicability to special needs offenders who are on probation or parole
    Predictions and suggestions for the future processing of special needs offenders

Introduction to Crime and Punishment

Topics Covered in This Course:
  In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Early history -2000 b.c. to a.d. 1800-
    Prisons -1800 to the present-
    Correctional ideologies: the pendulum swings
  In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Sentencing
    Appellate review
    Jails and detention facilities
  In Section 3 of this exam you will be evaluated on below listed topics:
    Probation
    Intermediate sanctions
    Imprisonment
  In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics:
    State and local prison systems
    The federal system
    Private sector systems
  In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Custody functions
    Management and treatment functions
    Female offenders
    Male offenders
    Juvenile offenders
    Special category offenders
    Inmate and ex-offender rights
    The death penalty and ndash;the ultimate right
    Parole and reentry
    The futures of corrections

Research methods in Corrections

Topics Covered in This Course:
  In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Introduction to criminal justice research methods: theory and method.
    Ethics in criminal justice research.
  In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Research design: the experimental model and its variations.
    An introduction to alternative data-gathering strategies and the special case of uniform crime reports.
  In Section 3 of this exam you will be evaluated on below listed topics:
    Sampling and survey research: questionnaires.
    Survey research: interviews and telephone surveys.
  In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Participant observation and case studies.
    Unobtrusive measures, secondary analysis, and the uses of official statistics.
  In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Validity, reliability, and triangulated strategies.
    Scaling and index construction.
    Policy analysis and evaluation research

Special Topics in Corrections

Topics Covered in This Course:
  In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Crime and justice in america.
    The substantive criminal law.
    The law of criminal procedure and the rights of the criminally accused.
  In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
    The nature and distribution of crime and its victims.
    Police operations.
    Issues and trends in policing.
  In Section 3 of this exam you will be evaluated on below listed topics:
    The dynamics of the criminal court.
    Pretrial procedures: bail, pretrial hearings, and plea bargaining.
    The criminal trial.
  In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Sentencing, appeals, and the death penalty.
    Jails and detention.
    Correctional institutions.
  In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Probation, parole, and community corrections.
    Juvenile justice.
    Drugs, crime, and the criminal justice system.

Introduction to Probation and Parole

Topics Covered in This Course:
  In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Probation and parole in criminal justice.
    Juvenile court and juvenile justice.
  In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Juvenile probation, institutions, and aftercare.
    Probation and the courts: history and administration.
  In Section 3 of this exam you will be evaluated on below listed topics:
    Sentencing and the presentence investigation -psi-.
    American prisons and community-based corrections.
  In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Parole and the indeterminate sentence.
    Parole administration and services.
  In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Rehabilitation: theory and practice.
    Probation and parole officers.
    Probation and parole supervision.
    Special problems and programs in probation and parole.
    Intermediate punishments.
    Probation and parole in the twenty-first century.
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