Bay Mills Community College
Brimley, MI 49715

COURSE TITLE:                  Client Relations in Corrections-CJ 112

DEPARTMENT:                    Criminal Justice

INSTRUCTOR:                      John Adair          

COURSE CREDITS:             3 Credit Hours

SEMESTER:                          online

COURSE DESCRIPTION:  
This course is designed to provide students with an understanding of theoretical constructs as applied to clients in penal settings. Topics will include the meaning and function of culture on personality development, the meaning and impact of discrimination as it affects client relations, minorities in Michigan, attitude formation, and professional responsiveness with correctional clientele..

COURSE OBJECTIVES:     
Students will be expected to do the following upon completion of this course:

1. Provide examples of the impact that prison culture has on a person’s personality. Including the impact on the various modes such as: inmate code, institutional life, and inmate economy.
2. Establish a paradigm of race relations among prisoners by identifying patterns of integration and segregation in the various large group activities that prisoner participate.
3. Provide and describe an in-depth description of the various minority groups that are represented in Michigan.
4. Provide an in-depth description of the 36 thinking errors of the criminal personality.
5. Provide an in-depth description of the behavior patterns of the criminal personality.
6. Provide an in-depth description of the eight appropriate ways to communicate with prisoners.

PRE-REQUISITE:     None

TRANSFER POTENTIAL:   L.S.S.U compatible. Meets the Michigan Department of Corrections course content requirement.

STUDENT RESPONSIBILITIES:

1. Read the textbooks and keep up with reading assignments
2. Complete all written assignments
• Written assignment must not be less than 300 words and not more than 500 words
3. Complete mid-term, and final exam.
• Mid-term, and final exam will consist of true/false, multiple choice, and short answer questions
4. Plagiarism and cheating of any kind will not be tolerated and may result in no credit for the class
5. Students with special needs or disabilities should contact the instructor to determine what arrangements can be made to meet the individual’s needs to the extent Bay Mills Community College and this class is able.

REQUIRED TEXTBOOKS:
Human Relations and Corrections, Fifth Edition
by Braswell, Fletcher, & Miller.
ISBN# 978-1-57766-427-7

Working with Clients in Correctional Settings, Revised Edition
by Coggins & Fresquez.
ISBN# 978-1-57879-017-3

STUDENT EVALUATION:
(13) Written Assignments = 5 points each (65 points total)
Midterm = 16 points
Final Exam = 18 points

All students please review the following policies and procedures

Student Handbook:
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Information about class schedules and transcripts:
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***SAVE EACH ASSIGNMENT IN YOUR COMPUTER AND ALSO KEEP A PAPER COPY***, in the event that your assignment is not received by the instructor and needs to be resubmitted. Keep all documentation of assignments, quizzes, correspondence, etc., until you have completed the course and your final grade has been posted by the College. This is an excellent habit for all of your online classes.

Completing the Course:
This is a 15-week course. Assignments must be submitted on a weekly basis and late assignments will be reduced by one letter grade for each week turned in late. All lesson exercises, tests, discussion questions, and the final exam MUST be completed within the required 15 weeks. Students who fail to complete the course within the required 15 weeks will have their grade decreased by one letter grade per week, for each week past the 15th week. This will help to make the grading system fair to those students who get their work done on time.

To be considered "complete," means your instructor must have received your lesson test/discussion questions each week, responded to you with your grade results, and recorded your grade. If at any time you are in doubt as to whether your assignment was received by the instructor - please send an e-mail inquiry. Keep your response from the instructor as documentation.

Please use the email address registered with the college. I have a good habit of deleting files and emails I do not recognize.Use the subject line to identify your email with the class number (CS142), lesson number (Lesson 1), and your initials (JRL) this will identify your assignments from other students. Example: CS142 Lesson 1 JRL

Anti-Virus Protection:
If you do not already have your computer protected by up-to-date anti-virus software, you are strongly encouraged to visit http://www.grisoft.com/, and download the latest version of AVG anti-virus protection. This will not only protect your computer from viruses that may be transmitted via other students' e-mails to me, it will protect my computer, other students, and the entire College from any viruses that may attach themselves to your e-mails. AVG is free, and will automatically update itself weekly if you select that option. This will help to protect all of us from all those nasty viruses out there.

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