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CRIM 3137

Corrections

0.5 credits · Undergraduate

Fall 2020

Topics

  • Perspectives on Crime and Punishment
  • Correctional practice implications. Aggression and violent
  • behavior
  • Miethe, T. D., & Lu, H. . Punishment: A comparative
  • Punishment Response). Cambridge University Press
  • Overview of the Canadian correctional system
  • Services Canada
  • ‘Canadian style’? Cultural values and Canadian punishment
  • policy. Punishment & Society
  • Courts and Sentencing
  • Department of Justice Canada . Canada’s Court System
  • Criminology and Criminal Justice
  • Alternatives to confinement
  • and Human behavior
  • Restorative Justice Programming: A review of the empirical
  • Department of Justice Canada
  • John Howard Society . Restorative Justice Programs
  • Promising Responses to Crime
  • Correctional Institutions
  • The relationship between burnout and coping in adult
  • exploratory investigation. Psychological Services

Readings

  • Required: Griffiths, C. T. & Murdoch, D. J. (2018). Canadian Corrections (5th ed.). Toronto, ON: Top Hat
  • Recommended: Ward, T., & Salmon, K. (2009). The ethics of punishment: Correctional practice implications. Aggression and violent behavior, 14(4), 239-247.
  • Recommended: Miethe, T. D., & Lu, H. (2005). Punishment: A comparative historical perspective (Chapter 1: Introduction: The Punishment Response). Cambridge University Press.
  • Required: Chapter 2 & 3
  • Recommended: History of the Canadian Correctional System. Correctional Services Canada.
  • Recommended: Webster, C. M., & Doob, A. N. (2015). US punitiveness ‘Canadian style’? Cultural values and Canadian punishment policy. Punishment & Society, 17(3), 299-321.
  • Required: Chapter 4 Department of Justice Canada (2015). Canada’s Court System.
  • Recommended: Tonry, M. (2013). Nothing Works: Sentencing Reform in Canada and the United States. Canadian Journal of Criminology and Criminal Justice, 55(4), 465-480.
  • Required: Wenzel et al. (2007) Retributive and Restorative Justice. Law and Human behavior 32, 375- 389
  • Recommended: Latimer, J. & Kleinknecht, S. (2000). The Effects of Restorative Justice Programming: A review of the empirical. Department of Justice Canada. John Howard Society (2012). Restorative Justice Programs: Promising Responses to Crime.
  • Required: Chapter 6 & 7
  • Recommended: Gould, D. D., Watson, S. L., Price, S. R., & Valliant, P. M.
  • Recommended: (2013). The relationship between burnout and coping in adult and young offender center correctional officers: An exploratory investigation. Psychological Services, 10(1), 37.
  • Recommended: Malakieh J. (2019). Adult and youth correctional statistics in Canada, 2017/2018. The Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics.
  • Required: Chapter 10 & 11
  • Recommended: Public Safety Canada (2008). Corrections and Conditional Release in Canada: A General Primer
  • Recommended: O'Grady, W. & Lafleur R. (2016). Reintegration in Ontario: practices, priorities, and effective models. John Howard Society of Ontario.
  • Required: Chapter 12 & 13
  • Recommended: Savage L. (2019). Female offenders in Canada, 2017. Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics. Fortin D. (2004). Program Strategy for Women Offenders. Correctional Service of Canada.
  • Recommended: Beattie, Boudreau & Raguparan (2014). Representation of Aboriginal People in the Canadian Criminal Justice System. Department of Justice.
  • Recommended: Department of Justice Canada (2013). The Youth Criminal Justice Act: Summary and Background.
  • Recommended: Douyon, E. (2016). Ethnocultural Minorities and the Canadian Correctional System. Correctional Service of Canada.
  • Required: COURSE AND UNIVERSITY POLICIES
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