| CODE | CRI3008 | ||||||||||||
| TITLE | Sentencing, Penal Policy and Management in Corrections | ||||||||||||
| UM LEVEL | 03 - Years 2, 3, 4 in Modular Undergraduate Course | ||||||||||||
| MQF LEVEL | 6 | ||||||||||||
| ECTS CREDITS | 4 | ||||||||||||
| DEPARTMENT | Criminology | ||||||||||||
| DESCRIPTION | This study-unit will address the difference between effective correctional management and ineffective management. Both theory and examples of good and bad practice will be used. Penal policy is largely a result of economic pressures that are making governments all over the world re-thing prison and correctional administration in the light of prison overcrowding. This poses new challenges and opportunities in correctional management. Court sentences are imposed on correctional departments, leaving both policy makers and senior managers to deal with increasing numbers of offenders. There is a push to decrease bureaucracy, to strengthen the policy making role of senior officials and to have senior official take a more prominent role in decision making. How management, policy and sentencing act together will be discussed in this study-unit. Study-unit Aims: The aim of this study-unit is to familiarise students with the problems faced in correctional management, penal policy and sentencing. Learning Outcomes: 1. Knowledge & Understanding By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to: - understand the theoretical methodology of sentencing and the practical methods used in different criminal justice systems around the world; - describe the the legal and extra-legal factors, such as the social and psychological impacts that influence sentencing judicial decision-making; and - discuss and assess recent sentencing policy developments and the political debate around sentencing; - appreciate the problems in correctional management; - be aware of the difficulties faced in prison and probation administration; - comprehend what makes an effective correctional manager. 2. Skills By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to: - analyse the theoretical understanding of international sentencing and penal policies; - consider the applied practical methods of sentencing and policy; - evaluate the present policies and help improve their future development; - comprehend and be able to propose changes in correctional administration, policy and sentencing. Main Text/s and any supplementary readings: - Bennet, J. (2016). A new approach to understanding prison managers: Global change, local culture and individual agency in the late modern prison. London: Palgrave Studies in Prisons and Penology. - Carlson P.M. and Garrett, J.S. (1999). Prison and Jail Administration: Practice and Theory. Maryland: Aspen Publishers. - Jewkes, Y., Bennet, J. and Crewe, B. (2016). Handbook on prisons (2nd Ed.). London: Routledge. - Phillips, R.L. and McConnell, C.R. (2005). The effective corrections manager. - Zedner L. and Ashworth A., 2003, The Criminological Foundations of Penal Policy: Essays in Honour of Roger Hood (Clarendon Studies in Criminology), Oxford University Press, USA. |
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| STUDY-UNIT TYPE | Lecture | ||||||||||||
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| LECTURER/S | Saviour Lia |
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