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Corrections Major

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About this Major

Provides students with a unique opportunity to gain valuable knowledge in the criminal justice system, with a focus on offender management.

The major develops students' interpersonal and leadership skills, while building a comprehensive understanding of the theories of offender management and motivational change. Students will develop an appreciation for the complex issues surrounding offender management and how they can work within an environment that seeks to reduce recidivism. The major is relevant to students with an interest in criminology and justice, but also has a wider appeal to social work, psychology, security and other students in the humanities discipline.

Code MAAAIG

Availability & Campus

Location Availability
Joondalup
Mount Lawley
South West
Online
= Available

Details

Structure

Unit Code Unit Title Credit Points
PSY1101Introduction to Psychology15
CSV1103Interpersonal and Helping Skills15
CRI2101Professional Skills - Case Management15
MAN3121Leadership15
CRI2202Youth Justice15
CRI3105Community Corrections (Theory and Practice)15
CRI3109International Human Rights15
CRI3206Misconduct and Corruption Prevention15

For more detailed unit information for this Major take a look at our Handbook. To organise your life for next semester visit the Teaching timetable.

Student handbook

Notes

Learning Outcomes

  1. Apply broad discipline knowledge to a range of theoretical and practical issues in corrections.
  2. Communicate knowledge of correctional ideas clearly, coherently and with independence.
  3. Demonstrate a global outlook with respect for diversity, including Indigenous cultural competence.
  4. Demonstrate autonomy, responsibility and accountability for own learning in scholarship and professional practice.
  5. Think creatively to anticipate challenges to generate correctional solutions and responses to criminal behaviour.
  6. Think critically to identify, conceptualise and analyse complex issues in contemporary correctional practices.
  7. Use digital technologies to access, evaluate and synthesise information in the discipline of corrections.
  8. Work collaboratively and demonstrate initiative to implement social, sustainable, and ethical values in criminology and justice.

Career Opportunities

Employment opportunities

The criminal justice system is a popular career path, with employment opportunities in fields such as the court system, government and private prison systems, community-based corrections, and offender treatment programs. Employment opportunities also exist in community services, sociology and youth work, the public and private sector, Government agencies, research and universities, criminology, policy development, intelligence, crime analysis and restorative justice.

Possible future job titles

Community Corrections Officer, Youth Justice Officer, Prison Officer, Crime Prevention Officer, Victim Support Officer, Policy Development Officer, Researcher, Community Services Officer, Security Services Officer, Intelligence Officer

This Major can be studied in the following courses

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