Assignment 1: Corrections Timeline
|CJ121 Corrections |
|Key Graded Assignment #1 – Corrections Timeline |
This assignment supports the following outcomes:
• Illustrate the history and development of correctional systems. • Analyze how past correctional practices influence the contemporary correctional system. • Defend your recommendations for improving the current correctional system.
Assignment
For this assignment, you are to conduct background research and develop a time-line on the history of corrections.
Deliverables
Develop a timeline covering four eras within
the correctional system. Select four of the following eras to research and summarize in your timeline in chronological order: 1800, 1900, 1920-1950, 1960, 1970, 1980, 1990, and 2000.
Your timeline must include the following elements for each era:
• Description of the treatment and punishment of offenders. • Description of the secure holding and / or monitoring of offenders. • Description of alternatives to incarceration. • Description of how, if at all, the correctional practices of the era influenced the correctional system and related policies in effect today. • Indication of which of the four eras researched was the most beneficial to the correctional system and why. • Citation references for resource(s) used to conduct research.
Using your acquired knowledge of corrections, provide a written response including your recommendations for ways in which the current correctional system could be improved upon. Provide a rationale for each of your recommendations. Your faculty member will provide guidance around the written response length requirements.
You MUST include in-text citations as well as a Bibliography/References page in order to receive any credit for the assignment.
Grading Criteria
The Corrections Timeline Grading Sheet provided by your instructor will be used to evaluate your assignment.
Resources • Westwood College Library: http://library.westwood.edu • Anti-plagiarism website: http://www.turnitin.com • Lexis Nexis: found on the student portal.
|Key Graded Assignment #1 – Corrections Timeline |
This assignment supports the following outcomes:
• Illustrate the history and development of correctional systems. • Analyze how past correctional practices influence the contemporary correctional system. • Defend your recommendations for improving the current correctional system.
Assignment
For this assignment, you are to conduct background research and develop a time-line on the history of corrections.
Deliverables
Develop a timeline covering four eras within
the correctional system. Select four of the following eras to research and summarize in your timeline in chronological order: 1800, 1900, 1920-1950, 1960, 1970, 1980, 1990, and 2000.
Your timeline must include the following elements for each era:
• Description of the treatment and punishment of offenders. • Description of the secure holding and / or monitoring of offenders. • Description of alternatives to incarceration. • Description of how, if at all, the correctional practices of the era influenced the correctional system and related policies in effect today. • Indication of which of the four eras researched was the most beneficial to the correctional system and why. • Citation references for resource(s) used to conduct research.
Using your acquired knowledge of corrections, provide a written response including your recommendations for ways in which the current correctional system could be improved upon. Provide a rationale for each of your recommendations. Your faculty member will provide guidance around the written response length requirements.
You MUST include in-text citations as well as a Bibliography/References page in order to receive any credit for the assignment.
Grading Criteria
The Corrections Timeline Grading Sheet provided by your instructor will be used to evaluate your assignment.
Resources • Westwood College Library: http://library.westwood.edu • Anti-plagiarism website: http://www.turnitin.com • Lexis Nexis: found on the student portal.