Corrections Administration
The Quincy College Corrections Administration certificate introduces students to the challenges and processes of administering criminal sanctions. The Certificate exposes students to a wide array of topics including juvenile justice, the impact of drug addiction on the correctional process, community corrections, managing a diverse and deviant population, and multiculturalism in Corrections, with required courses promoting a well-rounded correctional professional by combining both custodial and administrative topics, and the electives promoting individual interests in custodial or therapeutic practices. Successful completion will help prepare students for practice in Corrections at both governmental and private agencies.
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Certificates
The Quincy College Corrections Administration certificate introduces students to the challenges and processes of administering criminal sanctions. The Certificate exposes students to a wide array of topics including juvenile justice, the impact of drug addiction on the correctional process, community corrections, managing a diverse and deviant population, and multiculturalism in Corrections, with required courses promoting a well-rounded correctional professional by combining both custodial and administrative topics, and the electives promoting individual interests in custodial or therapeutic practices. Successful completion will help prepare students for practice in Corrections at both governmental and private agencies.
Program Outcomes
At the completion of the program the student should be able to:
- Explain the environment and influences impacting the field of juvenile and adult corrections including probation and parole
- Describe how management theory and criminal justice philosophies inform correctional practices
- Identify challenges of and responses to the deviant population within a correctional institution
- Compare and contrast the custodial and therapeutic mission of corrections
- Discuss the importance of interpersonal or intercultural communications to achieve the correctional mission
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Corrections Administration Courses
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Code
Course
Credits
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- CJS 107
Juvenile Delinquency
- 3
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- CJS 202
Introduction to Corrections
- 3
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- CJS 204
Probation, Parole & Community Corrections
- 3
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- CJS 206
Corrections Administration
- 3
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- ENG 224
Writing for Professionals
- 3
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