Corrections: The Essentials
Second Edition
Learning Objectives
- Understand the origins of corrections
- Appreciate that what we do now in corrections is often grounded in historical experience (or a repeat of it)
- Know the predominate prison systems of the early 1800s and their strengths and weaknesses
- Know what the social critics (Beaumont and Tocqueville and Dix) thought of the early prisons and why
- Understand why reform of prisons and jails was needed and how those reform efforts worked out
- Appreciate where we are today in America in terms of prison types and how we got there