CORRECTIONAL MANAGEMENT

Correctional services is a rapidly growing and changing industry around the world. Correctional Services managers are faced with increasingly complex issues. HIV/AIDS management, political prisoners, overcrowding, older prisoners, indigenous offenders, privatisation, the influence of politics, increasing accountability and decreasing budgets are some of the challenges correctional administrators in both institutional and community based settings encounter on an almost daily basis.

The Correctional Management courses are designed to:

• increase practitioners' awareness of the multi-faceted nature of correctional management
• promote an understanding of the dynamics and inter-relationship of crime, corrections and society
• enhance managerial competencies within the correctional environment
• provide an up-to-date knowledge of legislative, ethical and contextual issues as they relate to managing corrections
• afford an opportunity to study historical and cultural factors relevant to correctional administration in the Asia Pacific region.

We trust that you will find your study in this critical area of human behaviour is enjoyable, relevant, insightful, challenging and personally and professionally satisfying.

"Studying full time at university is not an option for me with my two young sons. But with CSU’s Distance Education program I can fit in my study around my life. The course is well structured and doesn’t require me to be studying 24 hours per day, so I can have a life and do well in my course. My Course Coordinator, and in fact every member of CSU staff that I have had dealings with respond promptly, and have been friendly and understanding. I don’t feel like an outsider even though I’m not actually on the university grounds. It’s brilliant! “

Paul Robinson – comments on DE study