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(3 hours) Prerequisites: CRIM 210 and CRIM 227 or PSYC 212. This course will provide students interested in the correctional system and its practices with a better understanding of how it functions before and after an offender is convicted of a crime. It explores the importance of the Probation and Parole system and how agents work with offenders and the communities into which they are reintroduced after release. The course will include an overview of the historical development of Probation and Parole, as well as the discussion and explanation of legal concepts and social aspects which are an integral part of the probation and parole processes. This course cannot be challenged.