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2024-2025 Undergraduate Hill Book 
    
2024-2025 Undergraduate Hill Book

CRM 227 - Introduction to Corrections

3 Credits
Offered Fall and Spring
The purpose of this course is to provide students with a general, theoretical, and practical understanding of the field of corrections in the United States. More specifically, we will explore the following areas: the history and goals of corrections, the various organizations that comprise the American correctional system, institutional and community-based corrections, current issues in the area of corrections, and the complexities of living and working in the correctional environment.

Prerequisite(s)/Restriction(s): CRM 120 - Critical Introduction to Criminal Justice  or CRM 201 - Criminological Theories   
Core Curriculum Attribute(s): History and Social Science