Policies enunciated by the United States Supreme Court are especially emphasized. Legal, sociological, and political factors are discussed in terms of their impact on the processing of criminal cases. Policies implemented to affect the administration of justice are also discussed and evaluated. This course introduces the student to the broad spectrum of ideas and issues in the field of corrections. The course is designed to introduce the student to the field of corrections.
Corrections is an ever-growing and challenging field.
This component of the criminal justice system is designed to punish by jail, prison, probation, restitution, community service, house arrest with or without electronic monitoring, death, etc. These goals will be reviewed throughout the text. The criminal investigator is not a super hero with extraordinary Sherlock Holmes-like powers of observation. The women and men working as criminal investigators perform a specialized function in American law enforcement agencies. They do follow-up investigation as opposed to the preliminary investigation usually done by uniformed police officers dispatched to crime scenes soon after a crime is discovered.