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CJ101: INTRODUCTION TO CRIMINAL JUSTICE M5: Learning Reflection Learning reflections give you the opportunity to think about what you have read and written in this module, linking it to your own experience and prior learning

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CJ101: INTRODUCTION TO CRIMINAL JUSTICE
M5: Learning Reflection

Learning reflections give you the opportunity to think about what you have read and written in this module, linking it to your own experience and prior learning. This exercise will help ensure that you are able to recall the information presented in this module at a later date and use it when completing assessments.   
 
For your learning reflections, please address the following questions: "What did you learn in this module and how would you use it? What do you wish I would have asked you this week?" 

In addressing this question, please write from between 5-10 sentences. You do not have to cite any outside sources or use APA format. This is your opportunity to think through what the module has meant to you. 

Module 5: Overview & Outcomes

In this module, you venture into one of the most significant junctures of the criminal justice system – sentencing. It is here that you discover the five goals of contemporary sentencing, the evolution and nature of various types of sentencing, alternative sentencing, sentencing innovations, and the four contemporary sentencing options. Additionally, you study the role and importance of the pre-sentence investigation, the history of victims’ rights, and the victim’s emerging role in criminal justice proceedings today. Finally, you examine and analyze the arguments for and against capital punishment.

Module Outcomes

By the end of this module, you will be able to:

• Module Outcome 1: Describe the five goals of contemporary criminal sentencing. (CO3)
• Module Outcome 2: Explain the nature and purpose of indeterminate sentencing, structured sentencing, and alternative sanctions. (CO3 and 5)
• Module Outcome 3: Assess the nature and importance of the presentence investigation report. (CO3)
• Module Outcome 4: Describe the history of victims’ rights and services and the growing role of the victim in criminal justice proceedings today. (CO3 and 5)
• Module Outcome 5: Identify the four contemporary sentencing options, and analyze and evaluate the arguments for and against capital punishment. (CO3 and 5)

Course Outcomes

The course outcomes that will be addressed in this module are:

• Course Outcome 3: Describe the various components – legislative, enforcement, judicial, and correctional - and their interactions within the criminal justice system.
• Course Outcome 5: Explain and analyze at least one alternative theoretical basis for understanding specific types of crime, victimization, and criminal justice policy.