Learning Objectives
- Define institutional corrections and identify the differences between penology and new penology.
- Summarize the history of institutional corrections.
- Evaluate the current perspectives in institutional corrections.
- Discuss the state of contemporary jails in the United States.
- Assess the differences in security levels in prisons and the institutions designed to deal with each.
- Differentiate how incarcerated women and minorities have been dealt with in the United States and how incarceration differs for male and female inmates and minorities.
- Identify advances in technology in institutional corrections and the benefits technology offers.