CJUS 330 - Treatment of Offenders

Credit Hours: 3
Lecture Hours: 3
Laboratory (or Other) Hours: 0

Prerequisite(s): CJUS 100 and PSYC 100 and SOCI 100
Restriction(s): None

Corequisite(s): None

This course is an overview of the various protocols that are used in rehabilitation and counseling of criminal offenders who are incarcerated to residential facilities. Counseling, treatment, and intervention methods with juveniles and adults are included. The application of contemporary theory through the use of case studies is explored. The goal of the course is to prepare criminal justice practitioners who work with offenders on a regular basis.

Student Learning Outcomes of the Course: You are being prepared for a future career in the criminal justice field. This will require the need to possess a basic understanding of how we, as a society, currently view the role of corrections and the shift to community-based rehabilitation of offenders. This course should therefore assist you to:

describe how correctional agencies and programs carry out the conditions of sentence imposed by the court judge;
define corrections and its purpose;
examine sentencing policies and how they have contributed to correctional growth in institutional and community-based corrections;
identify community corrections types of programs;
explain the factors involved in the decision to release one from detention;
determine eligibility for diversion;
understand how drug courts and mental health courts are a form of diversion;
explain the purpose and form of the conditions of community corrections;
explain the purpose and contents of the presentence investigation report;
describe classification techniques that lead to defining the level of supervision and development of a treatment plan;
list the principles of effective correctional intervention in offender treatment;
identify the types of educational and character qualifications needed to manage a caseload of offenders;
identify how probation conditions are modified and under what circumstances;
describe the function and purpose of residential community corrections facilities;
examine how restorative principles and practices differ from traditional criminal justice practices;
examine the preparations needed for the reentry process while the offender is still incarcerated;
discuss how reentry affects the prisoner, the victim, the community, and the prisoners family;
explain the main goal of parole is societal protection, accomplished by enforcing parolee restrictions and providing services that assist in community reintegration;
analyze the similarities and differences between the juvenile and adult justice systems;
describe how a juvenile offender is processed through the system;
identify the basics of juvenile probation and parole; and
describe how rights are lost as a result of conviction.