CJ101: INTRODUCTION TO CRIMINAL JUSTICE

M6: 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 6: Overview & Outcomes

In this module, you evaluate the effectiveness, advantages, and disadvantages of community-based corrections, which are less reliant on traditional confinement, but, rather, turn to the resources available in the community. Community corrections includes a wide variety of sentencing options, such as probation, parole, home confinement, remote location monitoring of offenders, and other new and developing programs. Critical to this module is comparing and contrasting immediate sanctions to traditional types of sentencing options. Additionally, you discover the significant court cases that have had an effect on probation and parole officers’ authority and practices. Finally, for those of you possibly interested in becoming probation/parole officers, you can survey the duties and challenges facing this profession.

Module Outcomes

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

• Module Outcome 1: Explain the history, nature, and purposes of probation and parole. (CO2 & 3)
• Module Outcome 2: Describe the advantages and disadvantages of probation and parole. (CO2 & 3)
• Module Outcome 3: Analyze and explain the legal environment surrounding the use of probation and parole. (CO2 & 3)
• Module Outcome 4: Outline the nature of the job of probation and parole officers and the likely future of probation and parole. (CO3 & 4)
• Module Outcome 5: Compare and contrast intermediate sanctions with more traditional forms of sentencing. (CO2 & 3)

Course Outcomes

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

• Course Outcome 2: Describe the dichotomy of individual rights versus public order.
• Course Outcome 3: Describe the various components – legislative, enforcement, judicial, and correctional - and their interactions within the criminal justice system.
• Course Outcome 4: Identify and analyze the various forms of diversity (social, racial, religious, age, socioeconomic status, etc.) and their relationships to the criminal justice system.