This course will explore current correctional practices and challenges in prison operation, management and programming. Topics include: the history of prison use in Canada and current sentencing trends, theoretical assumptions about punishment and corrections, prison programming, community corrections, pre-trial detention, Indigenous peoples in prison, women and children in prison, mental health and substance use, prisoner management and segregation, correctional officer-prisoner interaction, mass incarceration and private prisons, parole and re-entry.
This course will explore current correctional practices and challenges in prison operation, management and programming. Topics include: the history of prison use in Canada and current sentencing trends, theoretical assumptions about punishment and corrections, prison programming, community corrections, pre-trial detention, Indigenous peoples in prison, women and children in prison, mental health and substance use, prisoner management and segregation, correctional officer-prisoner interaction, mass incarceration and private prisons, parole and re-entry.
