CRJU 316: Community Corrections

This course operates on two assumptions: First, most offenders spend a great deal of their sentence being supervised and/or treated in the community rather than jail or prison. Second, 95%-97% of all incarcerated offenders will be released at some point in their lives. Most will undergo some sort of community supervision as they transition into society. Due to advancements in effective correctional interventions, more is known about what works with certain types of offenders. Therefore, most of the community correctional interventions covered in this course are evidence-based and because of the use of these Evidence-Based Practices (EBP), a vast acceptance of this empirical research has changed the way many criminal justice agencies operation and utilize community corrections.