CSS 212: The sociology of punishment and correction

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dc.contributor.authorCourse developed and written by Victor Aniekan Usoh
dc.contributor.authorNiyi Adegoke
dc.contributor.authorBosede Folashade Okeshola
dc.date.accessioned2025-08-27T14:09:43Z
dc.date.available2025-08-27T14:09:43Z
dc.date.issued2022
dc.descriptionThe materials have been developed to extensively cover every aspect of punishment and correction, whether in Nigeria and other countries of the world. It is a broad area of study without any limit to its context.
dc.description.abstract• History and efficacy of punishment. • Philosophies of punishment. • Historical overview of institutional corrections. • The general nature of the prison community. • Classification, reception and case work. • Prison labor. • Release from prison. • Probation. • Theoretical framework of the prisons system. • Purposes and goals of the criminal sanction. • The choice of a sanction. • Issues on capital punishment (death penalty). • Sentencing practices. • The inmates social code and functions. • Re-socialization within walls. • The pains of imprisonment. • Prisonization. • Standard minimum rules for the treatment of prisoners. • Limitation of treatment in prisons. • Classification as part of treatment in the prison system. • Group therapy with offenders. • Modification of the criminal value system. • Evolution and philosophies of prisons system in Nigeria. • Penological policies of the Nigerian criminal justice system. • Penal practices in Nigeria. • Punishment as a deterrent: how effectiveness has it been? (a case of Nigerian environment). • Awaiting trial and holding charge in Nigeria criminal justice system. • Prisoner’s rights and civil disabilities of ex-convicts in Nigeria. • Nigerian prison after care services. • The advocacy for deinstitutionalization of sentences in Nigeria. • Various recommendations on prisons reform.
dc.identifier.citationhttps://nou.edu.ng/coursewarecontent/CSS%20212.pdf
dc.identifier.urihttps://nou.edu.ng/coursewarecontent/CSS%20212.pdf
dc.identifier.urihttps://nigeriareposit.nln.gov.ng/handle/20.500.14186/2195
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherAbuja( National Open University of Nigeria Headquarters University Village Plot 91, Cadastral Zone, Nnamdi Azikwe Expressway Jabi): National Open University of Nigeria press,
dc.titleCSS 212: The sociology of punishment and correction
dc.typeBook
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