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CJA 383 Successful Learning

• CJA 383 Entire Course (UOP)

• CJA 383 Entire Course (UOP)

• CJA 383 Week 1 Individual Assignment The Sentence
• CJA 383 Week 1 DQ 1
• CJA 383 Week 1 DQ 2
• CJA 383 Week 2 Learning Team Assignment The
  Corrections Task Force Project

• CJA 383 Week 1 Individual Assignment The Sentence
• CJA 383 Week 1 DQ 1
• CJA 383 Week 1 DQ 2
• CJA 383 Week 2 Learning Team Assignment The
  Corrections Task Force Project
• CJA 383 Week 2 DQ 1

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CJA 383 Successful Learning

• CJA 383 Week 1 DQ 1 (UOP)

• CJA 383 Week 1 DQ 2 (UOP)

• What does being "corrected" mean in corrections.
  Is this term applied incorrectly? Please explain
  your answer.

• What kinds of personal motivations work for an
  individual's rehabilitation? Can a person be
  rehabilitated against his/her will?

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• CJA 383 Week 2 DQ 1 (UOP)

• CJA 383 Week 1 Individual Assignment The
  Sentence (UOP)

• Individual Assignment The Sentence
• Read the following scenario
• You are a judge and an individual appears before
  you convicted of stealing others identities for
  monetary gain. What specific information would be
  important to know before imposing a sentence? How
  would you incorporate the sentencing goals of
  retribution, incapacitation, deterrence,
  rehabilitation, and restitution in your sentence
  of this individual for this particular crime?

• DQ1
• What considerations might motivate a county
  administrator to want to privatize the local
  jail? Please discuss

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• CJA 383 Week 2 DQ 2 (UOP)

• CJA 383 Week 2 Learning Team Assignment The
  Corrections Task Force Project (UOP)

• Read the following scenario
• For the next four weeks, your Learning Team plays
  the role of a task force formed by the County
  Board of Supervisors in the County of Utopia. Due
  to overcrowding, your county must build a new
  jail. The task force must initially decide on the
  following
• o Who will this new facility house? Be specific
  in number, gender, and age of expected prisoners.
• o Will your new jail be built privately or
  publicly? Will your new jail be privately or
  publicly operated? Summarize your decision and
  the reasons for your decision.
• o What type of jail will it be?
• Holding jail
• Processing jail
• Low-use jail or high-use jail
• o Summarize the purpose and function of the jail
  type you have chosen.

• What prison-based programs do you think hold the
  most promise for helping inmates "turn their
  lives around?" Which ones do you think are a
  waste of time and money? What are prisons not
  doing for (or to) inmates that they should
  consider doing. Explain your answer.

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• CJA 383 Week 3 DQ 1 (UOP)

• CJA 383 Week 3 DQ 2 (UOP)

• Week 3 DQ2
• Why do you suppose a lesser burden of proof than
  that required at trial applies in probation and
  parole revocation proceedings? Do you agree with
  that practice? Why or why not?

• DQ1
• What is the primary purpose of community
  corrections? Do programs such as work release,
  education release and furloughs pose a risk to
  public safety? Why or why not? Please discuss.

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• CJA 383 Week 3 Individual Assignment Life in
  Prison(UOP)

• CJA 383 Week 3 Team Assignment The Corrections
  Task Force Project Press Release (UOP)

• Learning Team Assignment The Corrections Task
  Force ProjectPress Release
• Read the following scenario
• Your task force is responsible for developing
  both the conceptual model and physical design for
  your proposed jail.
• o Conceptual Model Describe the features of your
  jail and the reason why these features have been
  included. Where will your prison be located? What
  will it look like? What level of security will be
  provided? How does your jail design support your
  jails functions and goals? What are the
  advantages and the disadvantages of the jail as
  you have designed

• 1. Individual Assignment Life in Prison
• Write a 1,750- to 2,450-word paper answering
  the following
• o In what way, if any, has your understanding of
  prison life changed since reading the courses
  assigned readings and ERR articles?
• o From your readings, describe what policies you
  would enforce which might aid in an inmates
  adjustment to prison.
• o How does an inmates need for respect, hope,
  and safety contribute to correctional policy?
• o What changes in correctional policy would you
  suggest be implemented in the various
  correctional facilities (state or federal)?

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• CJA 383 Week 3 Team Assignment The Corrections
  Task Force Project Press Release

• CJA 383 Week 4 DQ 1 (UOP)

• Are there actions corrections employees can take
  to minimize successful lawsuits by inmates and
  others against them?

• Learning Team Assignment The Corrections Task
  Force ProjectPress Release
• Read the following scenario
• Your task force is responsible for developing
  both the conceptual model and physical design for
  your proposed jail.
• o Conceptual Model Describe the features of your
  jail and the reason why these features have been
  included. Where will your prison be located? What
  will it look like? What level of security will be
  provided? How does your jail design support your
  jails functions and goals? What are the
  advantages and the disadvantages of the jail as
  you have designed it?
• o Physical Model The physical design may be
  represented by a two-dimensional
  computer-generated drawing or image.

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• CJA 383 Week 4 DQ 2 (UOP)

• CJA 383 Week 4 Individual Assignment Job
  Announcement (UOP)

• Individual Assignment Job Announcement
• Locate a website or other resource containing
  job announcements in the corrections field. Find
  at least one job announcement in the corrections
  field and prepare a memorandum stating the
  following
• o Hiring agency
• o Job title
• o Job description
• o Education or background requirements
• o Salary range
• Prepare a summary with the information required
  above about the job announcement that you found
  in the corrections field.

• Week 4 DQ2
• What approach makes the most sense in managing
  inmates a firm hand or substantial inmate
  participation? Can all inmates (or prisons) be
  managed the same way? Explain why or why not?

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• CJA 383 Week 4 Learning Team Assignment The
  Corrections Task Force Project Program Summary
  (UOP)

• CJA 383 Week 4 Learning Team Assignment The
  Corrections Task Force Project Program Summary

• Learning Team Assignment The Corrections Task
  Force ProjectProgram Summary
• Read the following scenario
• To help reduce jail overcrowding, your task force
  has been asked to identify the following
• o Programs for the jail inmates to participate in
  that will assist the inmates in their
  reintegration into society.

• Learning Team Assignment The Corrections Task
  Force ProjectProgram Summary
• Read the following scenario
• To help reduce jail overcrowding, your task force
  has been asked to identify the following
• o Programs for the jail inmates to participate in
  that will assist the inmates in their
  reintegration into society.

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• CJA 383 Week 5 DQ 1 (UOP)

• CJA 383 Week 5 DQ 2 (UOP)

• Week 5 DQ2
• Should inmates rights groups, such as the ACLUs
  National Prison Project, be permitted to file
  lawsuits on behalf of inmates? Explain why or why
  not.

• Do inmates have a right to privacy? What does
  this mean in terms of correctional officers of
  one gender guarding prisoners of another gender?

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• CJA 383 Week 5 Learning Team Instructions The
  Corrections Task Force Project Program
  Presentation

• CJA 383 Week 5 Learning Team Instructions The
  Corrections Task Force ProjectProgram
  Presentation

• Learning Team Instructions The Corrections Task
  Force ProjectProgram Presentation
• Prepare a 10- to 15-slide PowerPoint
  presentation including detailed speakers notes
  for the County Board of Supervisors to showcase
  your work on this project.

• Learning Team Instructions The Corrections Task
  Force ProjectProgram Presentation
• Prepare a 10- to 15-slide PowerPoint
  presentation including detailed speakers notes
  for the County Board of Supervisors to showcase
  your work on this project.

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