Jul 02, 2024
OHIO University Undergraduate Catalog 2023-2024
OHIO University Undergraduate Catalog 2023-2024
[Archived Catalog]
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LET 2050 - Introduction to Legal Issues in Corrections
Provides a comprehensive discussion of the legal aspects of specific operational areas of corrections, such as prisoner rights under the constitution, health care, and right to an attorney, religion, privacy, and cruel or unusual punishment.
Credit Hours: 3
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture
Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
Learning Outcomes:
- Communicate clear ideas and legal viewpoints to proficient writings from a correctional construct.
- Demonstrate an understanding of the balancing of individual, state, and federal rights and how they relate to a correctional system.
- Demonstrate knowledge and comprehension of the many legal issues that have impacted corrections operations and corrections policies.
- Demonstrate the ability to think critically by researching, analyzing facts and data, and synthesizing contemporary legal issues in corrections.
- Develop an understanding of the many complex topics in correction law.
- Learn to analyze and draft a legal brief related to a corrections topic.
- Read with comprehension and become knowledgeable from readings, and to apply practical theory to correctional operational applications.
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