School: Arts and Humanities

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

Your unit may be subject to government or third party COVID-19 vaccination requirements. Please consider this before enrolling in this unit, and speak with the unit coordinator if this raises any concerns.

  • Unit Title

    Community Corrections (Theory and Practice)
  • Unit Code

    CRI3105
  • Year

    2022
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    2
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Natalie Jane GATELY

Description

This unit aims to provide a comprehensive understanding of community corrections and the influence and development of community corrections from different philosophical, theoretical and political perspectives. The principles, nature, concepts and facets of community corrections from a victim, offender, worker and community perspective are examined. The effectiveness of community corrections as an alternative to imprisonment, and the various challenges and contemporary issues facing community corrections in Australia are also explored.

Prerequisite Rule

Students must pass 120 credit points

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Evaluate the theoretical, political and historical development of community corrections in Australia and other western countries in order to place current approaches in context.
  2. Evaluate literature and research considering the effectiveness of community corrections in order to determine risk to victims, offenders, workers and the wider community.
  3. Assess and communicate the factors affecting different community-based sanctions and the nature and challenges associated with community-based supervision through a formal criminology report.

Unit Content

  1. A review and examination of the principles, theoretical concepts, challenges, and effectiveness of drug and violence courts.
  2. A review of the research and literature pertaining to the effectiveness of community corrections.
  3. A theoretical philosophical and practical understanding of the concepts of rehabilitation.
  4. An exploration of the historical, political and theoretical development of community corrections.
  5. An introduction to the various ideologies, assessments, reports, and analysis underpinning caseload management and supervision of offenders.
  6. An investigation of the concepts, reasons and importance of risk assessment.
  7. Examine a variety of front end and back end alternatives to imprisonment.
  8. Identification and understanding of the nature, concepts, similarities and differences of a variety of community-based sanctions.
  9. Identification of the availability of treatment, educational, and training programmes for offenders within the community.

Learning Experience

ON-CAMPUS

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECU's LMS

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 113 x 3 hour seminarNot OfferedNot Offered

For more information see the Semester Timetable

ONLINE

Students will engage in learning experiences via ECU’s LMS as well as additional ECU learning technologies

Additional Learning Experience Information

This unit is conducted in both the on-campus and online modes. On-campus students are required to attend a three-hour seminar each week. The seminars are delivered by an instructor with relevant industry knowledge and experience. The seminars are designed to introduce students to the concepts, theories and practical issues relevant to community corrections in Australia and internationally. Problem-based seminar activities are used to allow students to apply their learning and improve their critical thinking skills and communication skills. Assessment methods provide students the opportunity to demonstrate and develop their content knowledge, critical thinking and written communication skills. Online students are provided with an electronic recorded seminar each week. All information is delivered to online students via LMS. The seminars are delivered by an instructor with relevant industry knowledge and experience. The seminars are designed to introduce students to the concepts, theories and practical issues relevant to community corrections in Australia and internationally. Problem-based online activities are used to allow students to apply their learning and improve their critical thinking skills and communication skills. Assessment methods provide students the opportunity to demonstrate and develop their content knowledge, critical thinking and written communication skills. Regular online access is essential.

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant School Progression Panel.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
EssayCritical essay30%
Case StudyCase analysis and write-up40%
PresentationVerbal Report30%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
EssayCritical essay30%
Case StudyCase analysis and write-up40%
PresentationVerbal Report30%

Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Academic Integrity

Integrity is a core value at Edith Cowan University, and it is expected that ECU students complete their assessment tasks honestly and with acknowledgement of other people's work. This means that assessment tasks must be completed individually (unless it is an authorised group assessment task) and any sources used must be referenced.

Breaches of academic integrity can include:

Plagiarism

Copying the words, ideas or creative works of other people, without referencing in accordance with stated University requirements. Students need to seek approval from the Unit Coordinator within the first week of study if they intend to use some of their previous work in an assessment task (self-plagiarism).

Unauthorised collaboration (collusion)

Working with other students and submitting the same or substantially similar work or portions of work when an individual submission was required. This includes students knowingly providing others with copies of their own work to use in the same or similar assessment task(s).

Contract cheating

Organising a friend, a family member, another student or an external person or organisation (e.g. through an online website) to complete or substantially edit or refine part or all of an assessment task(s) on their behalf.

Cheating in an exam

Using or having access to unauthorised materials in an exam or test.

Serious outcomes may be imposed if a student is found to have committed one of these breaches, up to and including expulsion from the University for repeated or serious acts.

ECU's policies and more information about academic integrity can be found on the student academic integrity website.

All commencing ECU students are required to complete the Academic Integrity Module.

Assessment Extension

In some circumstances, Students may apply to their Unit Coordinator to extend the due date of their Assessment Task(s) in accordance with ECU's Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000001386.

Special Consideration

Students may apply for Special Consideration in respect of a final unit grade, where their achievement was affected by Exceptional Circumstances as set out in the Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000003318.

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School: Arts and Humanities

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

Your unit may be subject to government or third party COVID-19 vaccination requirements. Please consider this before enrolling in this unit, and speak with the unit coordinator if this raises any concerns.

  • Unit Title

    Community Corrections (Theory and Practice)
  • Unit Code

    CRI3105
  • Year

    2022
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    2
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Natalie Jane GATELY

Description

This unit aims to provide a comprehensive understanding of community corrections and the influence and development of community corrections from different philosophical, theoretical and political perspectives. The principles, nature, concepts and facets of community corrections from a victim, offender, worker and community perspective are examined. The effectiveness of community corrections as an alternative to imprisonment, and the various challenges and contemporary issues facing community corrections in Australia are also explored.

Prerequisite Rule

Students must pass 120 credit points

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Evaluate the theoretical, political and historical development of community corrections in Australia and other western countries in order to place current approaches in context.
  2. Evaluate literature and research considering the effectiveness of community corrections in order to determine risk to victims, offenders, workers and the wider community.
  3. Assess and communicate the factors affecting different community-based sanctions and the nature and challenges associated with community-based supervision through a formal criminology report.

Unit Content

  1. A review and examination of the principles, theoretical concepts, challenges, and effectiveness of drug and violence courts.
  2. A review of the research and literature pertaining to the effectiveness of community corrections.
  3. A theoretical philosophical and practical understanding of the concepts of rehabilitation.
  4. An exploration of the historical, political and theoretical development of community corrections.
  5. An introduction to the various ideologies, assessments, reports, and analysis underpinning caseload management and supervision of offenders.
  6. An investigation of the concepts, reasons and importance of risk assessment.
  7. Examine a variety of front end and back end alternatives to imprisonment.
  8. Identification and understanding of the nature, concepts, similarities and differences of a variety of community-based sanctions.
  9. Identification of the availability of treatment, educational, and training programmes for offenders within the community.

Learning Experience

ON-CAMPUS

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECU's LMS

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 113 x 3 hour seminarNot OfferedNot Offered

For more information see the Semester Timetable

ONLINE

Students will engage in learning experiences via ECU’s LMS as well as additional ECU learning technologies

Additional Learning Experience Information

This unit is conducted in both the on-campus and online modes. On-campus students are required to attend a three-hour seminar each week. The seminars are delivered by an instructor with relevant industry knowledge and experience. The seminars are designed to introduce students to the concepts, theories and practical issues relevant to community corrections in Australia and internationally. Problem-based seminar activities are used to allow students to apply their learning and improve their critical thinking skills and communication skills. Assessment methods provide students the opportunity to demonstrate and develop their content knowledge, critical thinking and written communication skills. Online students are provided with an electronic recorded seminar each week. All information is delivered to online students via LMS. The seminars are delivered by an instructor with relevant industry knowledge and experience. The seminars are designed to introduce students to the concepts, theories and practical issues relevant to community corrections in Australia and internationally. Problem-based online activities are used to allow students to apply their learning and improve their critical thinking skills and communication skills. Assessment methods provide students the opportunity to demonstrate and develop their content knowledge, critical thinking and written communication skills. Regular online access is essential.

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant School Progression Panel.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
EssayCritical essay30%
Case StudyCase analysis and write-up40%
PresentationVerbal Report30%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
EssayCritical essay30%
Case StudyCase analysis and write-up40%
PresentationVerbal Report30%

Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Academic Integrity

Integrity is a core value at Edith Cowan University, and it is expected that ECU students complete their assessment tasks honestly and with acknowledgement of other people's work. This means that assessment tasks must be completed individually (unless it is an authorised group assessment task) and any sources used must be referenced.

Breaches of academic integrity can include:

Plagiarism

Copying the words, ideas or creative works of other people, without referencing in accordance with stated University requirements. Students need to seek approval from the Unit Coordinator within the first week of study if they intend to use some of their previous work in an assessment task (self-plagiarism).

Unauthorised collaboration (collusion)

Working with other students and submitting the same or substantially similar work or portions of work when an individual submission was required. This includes students knowingly providing others with copies of their own work to use in the same or similar assessment task(s).

Contract cheating

Organising a friend, a family member, another student or an external person or organisation (e.g. through an online website) to complete or substantially edit or refine part or all of an assessment task(s) on their behalf.

Cheating in an exam

Using or having access to unauthorised materials in an exam or test.

Serious outcomes may be imposed if a student is found to have committed one of these breaches, up to and including expulsion from the University for repeated or serious acts.

ECU's policies and more information about academic integrity can be found on the student academic integrity website.

All commencing ECU students are required to complete the Academic Integrity Module.

Assessment Extension

In some circumstances, Students may apply to their Unit Coordinator to extend the due date of their Assessment Task(s) in accordance with ECU's Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000001386.

Special Consideration

Students may apply for Special Consideration in respect of a final unit grade, where their achievement was affected by Exceptional Circumstances as set out in the Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000003318.

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