Corrections Management Certificate
(18 semester hours)

Objectives

• Analyze the history of the American Penal System and examine the philosophies and laws of punishment and sentencing.
• Analyze key Supreme Court case decisions specifically pertaining to the constitutional rights of those incarcerated in an American correctional facility.
• Use various research methodologies to obtain comprehension of research applications and explain the relationship between two or more variables relating to a varied range of theoretical explanations for crime and criminality.
• Assess various correctional treatment strategies employed in correctional facilities, as well as the impact of these strategies on the administrators of the facilities to comply with a variety of governmental agencies and their mandated requirements pertaining to specific inmate special population groups.
• Assess the roles of probation and parole officials and the interrelationship with the correctional programs.

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