CRJ 2200 - Correctional Systems

Credit Hours: 3

Course examines the management, structure and organizational design of correctional institutions. Correctional planning, construction, program evaluation and community interaction will be considered, and improvement strategies for correctional operations will be debated and critiqued. The course provides a broad overview of the correctional system which incarcerates and confines, treats and reclaims criminal personalities, and protects and serves the state and the community by removing threats to the social order.