CRJ303: Corrections Ashford University

Goals of Sentencing

Discuss the pros and cons of four of the six correctional aims or goals of sentencing. Your initial post should be at least 250 words in length. Support your claims with examples from the required material(s) and/or other scholarly resources, and properly cite any references.

History of Corrections

  Compare and contrast the differences between the corrections system today versus what you learned about the history of corrections in the United States. Identify at least one similarity and one difference between the philosophies of today’s corrections and that of the past. Your initial post should be at least 250 words in length. Support your claims with examples from the required material(s) and/or other scholarly resources, and properly cite any references. Respond to at least two of your classmates’ posts by Day 7. In your responses to classmates, either:

a. Discuss one of the similarities and state if that similarity should or should not be changed and why, or

b. Discuss one of the differences and state whether that difference has been positive or negative on crime.