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CRJS317: Correctional Institutions

The portfolio developed for this course should demonstrate the student's understanding of their relevant experience with correctional institutions.

Experience Requirements
Minimum of five years documented relevant experience.

Expanded Resume
Description of eelevant experience. Student should detail the formal positions held, kinds of experiences, activities and problems encountered in these positions.

List of Questions Student Has About Her/His Experience
These questions should draw on the student's "reflections" about their experience. (As Plato said "An Unexamined life is not worth living"). Questions should refer to problems, observations, experiences that the student wishes to understand. These should be described in detail along with the experiential contexts from which they were derived.

Documentation of Learning
Analysis of experience integrating readings and demonstrating understanding. This section should demonstrate an understanding of concepts, explanations, and analysis from the readings (see list below) and how those help the student understand various questions and facets of their experience described in 2 and 3 above. Students should integrate related readings about corrections in their analysis of their experience. If they have done no related readings, the list below provides some examples:

Toch, Hans. LIVING IN PRISON: THE ECOLOGY OF SURVIVAL (revised edition). NY: American Psychological Association, 1993
Lombardo, Lucien X. GUARDS IMPRISONED: CORRECTIONAL OFFICERS AT WORK (2nd edition) Cincinnati, OH: Anderson, 1989.
Johnson, Robert. HARD TIME: UNDERSTANDING AND REFORMING THE PRISON (2nd Edition). Belmont, CA: Wadsworth, 1995.
Owen, Barbara. IN THE MIX: STRUGGLE AND SURVIVAL IN A WOMEN'S PRISON. Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 1998.
Victor Hassine, LIFE WITHOUT PAROLE. Los Angeles, CA: Roxbury, 1996.

10 Item Annotated Research Bibliography
This should include a review of academic research related to the student's experiences. This must include:

Bibliographic Citation
Summary of the findings of the of the research
Relationship of the research to the student's understanding of his / her experience