CJC 523: Community Based Corrections

This course expands the traditional definition of community corrections and includes multiple types of supervision within the community. The degree of supervision and the level of interaction with the criminal justice system varies depending on its use. These can include community courts and pre-trial diversion, community sentences such as home detention and monitoring, restitution, and community service, probation, as well as post-release supervision. Programs within this definition of community corrections are run by courts, government agencies, as well as profit- and not-for-profit organizations. The level of authority can include a violation of court conditions, a return to court for sentencing, and incarceration for violations of community supervision. Interactions between communities and institutional and community-based corrections are also considered. Evidence-based research is used to evaluate programs. This is a writing intensive course. This course is open to students matriculated in the Criminal Justice/Community Corrections program and the Forensic Mental Health Program.