Correctional Institutions

Select a topic or issue in corrections that you want to examine and know more about. Please discuss the following in your paper: 1. Why did you choose this topic/issue of corrections? What are your views, attitudes, and beliefs about this topic/issue before reading the articles? (approx. 1.5 pages) 2. After reviewing your selected research journal articles, please discuss the research on your selected correctional topic or issue. Please make sure to discuss the following: (approx. 7 pages) • Give an introduction of your chosen topic/issue (e.g. management of prisons, effectiveness of parole or probation; reentry or assimilation of released prisoners in the community; effectiveness of educational, vocational, or spiritual programs in correctional facilities for prisoners, restorative justice in prisons, etc.) • Discuss the significance of your chosen topic/issue. In other words, why is your chosen correctional topic/issue important and worthy of study? • Discuss the major findings and concepts from your review of the research on your chosen topic or issue. • Discuss the policies, strategies, programs, interventions, services, etc. that were suggested by the research studies to effectively address or improve your chosen topic or issue. • Discuss any theories that were used to inform thinking about your topic/issue in the journal articles, various samples used in the studies, various hypotheses tested in the research articles, and various methodologies used in the research journal articles.