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Sep 07, 2024
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SOC 333 - Corrections and Incarceration (3) SP, alternate years. This course considers corrections and incarceration systems within contemporary society. Particular foci include issues of punishment, rehabilitation, prison communities, and reintegration. The course examines both historical and contemporary theories and practices of punishment, deterrence, abolition, limiting harm, and rehabilitation (mass incarceration, death penalty, treatment of vulnerable populations, solitary confinement, effected communities) and contemporary reforms. Critical issues and problems assessed will include cultures of prisons (including social roles of prisoners and correctional officers), sentencing guidelines, philosophies of punishment, deterrence, and rehabilitation, and reintegration.
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