Undergraduate USA-JUST2011-2022
Corrections: Offender Rehabilitation and Desistance
$2,050 $2,875
Your upfront cost: $0
Duration
10 weeks
Study method
100% Online
Available loans
- FEE-HELP
Assessments
100% online
Prior study
Not required
Start dates
- 19 Sep 2022
QS RANKING 2022
20
Times Higher Education Ranking 2022
23
Subject details
By the end of this 10-week course, you’ll be able to:
- Identify concepts, apply knowledge, and practise skills to effectively work and communicate with adverse group of offenders.
- Appraise the current theories underpinning correctional practice.
- Explore and evaluate ethical practice in offender management approaches.
- Discuss the complex factors that have an impact on offender desistance.
- Conduct and evaluate theoretically-informed offender risk assessments.
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- Corrections - role and function
- People who commit crime
- What works? Assessing risk, need, responsivity
- Rehabilitation, treatment and intervention
- Community corrections and parole
- Working with offenders
- Trauma, ethics and humane treatment
- What helps? Strength-based approaches
- Desistance, recovery and reintegration
- International corrections
No eligibility requirements
Additional requirements
No additional requirements
This course examines the role, function and approach of correctional services agencies in Australia. Explore theory, policies, processes, and practices that assist correctional services agencies in their delivery of a range of services to assist rehabilitation and reduce recidivism.
You’ll study the ethical and humane treatment of prisoner management and the significance of trauma in offenders’ lives. This is a very practical course where you’ll be able to apply the knowledge and skills you acquire directly to a corrections context.
UniSA Online’s 10-week short courses give you the flexibility to upskill in a certain area, stay current with developments in your field, diversify your knowledge, or even explore a new direction in your career – without having to commit to the time and cost of a full university degree.
Delivered 100% online, you’ll be able to study where and when it suits you. Access online academic and student support seven days a week, fit study around work and life commitments, view learning resources 24/7, and log in to the interactive online environment anywhere, any time and on any device.
This is a second-year course from UniSA Online’s Bachelor of Criminal Justice.
Should your course have an exam it will be scheduled for Australian Central Standard Time or Australian Central Daylight Time, depending on the time of the year.
- Continuous assessment (60%)
- Report (40%)
Current study term: 18 Sep 22 to 25 Nov 22
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