Course covers basic principles and techniques involved in the correctional programs of probation, parole, and community-based sanctions. Topics include roles of correctional programs in the administration of criminal justice, identification of other correction measures, explanation of community-based correction and its organizations. Social, political, economic, cultural, and technical conditions required to support a meaningful community-based program. Responsibilities, and services provided by probation and parole. In addition, the course covers the examination of personal beliefs and assumptions about the methods of control and punishment currently and historically in use as effective and ethical methods of preventing and sanctioning crime.
