Assignment: Current Correctional Settings

Assignment: Current Correctional Settings
Assignment: Current Correctional Settings
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In 1,250-1,500 words, do the following:
Describe some of the theoretical best practices for restorative justice, crime prevention, and corrections.
Explain how the theoretical best practices are, and are not, manifested in current correctional settings in the United States.
Explain different ways to improve rehabilitative services to make them more readily utilized within the criminal justice system, and better aligned to the theoretical best practices you identified.
Provide five to seven peer reviewed resources to support your explanations.
Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center. An abstract is not required.
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This benchmark assignment assesses the following programmatic competencies: 5.4 Classify current practices and theories of restorative justice, crime prevention and corrections.
What is correctional setting?
These functions commonly include imprisonment, parole and probation. A typicalcorrectional institution is a prison. A correctional system, also known as a penal system, thus refers to a network of agencies that administer a jurisdiction’s prisons and community-based programs like parole and probation boards;.
Criminal History
A felony conviction disqualifies you from becoming a corrections officer. Failure to disclose a criminal background of any kind will also automatically disqualify you. List any misdemeanor crimes in your application, regardless of the amount of time that has elapsed since they occurred.