Corrections- Vantage Learning Platform

The Essentials

FAVORITE SAGE VANTAGE FEATURES

Features Instructors Love

Features Students Love

Enables Easy, 3-Step Course Creation. Our simple interface enables you to create your course in minutes so you can focus on content. Just enter your course information, select your assignments and grading preferences, and review your settings.

Drives Student Engagement. An evidence-based learning design integrates text content with frequent multimedia activities and learning assessments to facilitate better student preparation, engagement, and learning retention.

• A student dashboard offers easy access to text content and visually tracks progress on assignments and assessments.
• Study tools, including flashcards and note-taking, highlighting, and definition look-up capabilities, give students all they need for class preparation and course success.
• Assignable Knowledge Checks (with helpful hints) provide formative assessments after each major section of text content to reinforce retention of key concepts.
• Critical Thinking Checks and Chapter Quizzes provide summative assessments at the end of each chapter to measure progress and long-term retention.
• Assignable multimedia activities with assessment—including video and reading activities—build critical thinking and data literacy while consistently engaging students in an interactive application of text content. Focused feedback on correct and incorrect answers eliminates any guesswork in the learning journey.

Ensures Student Accountability. Auto-graded assignments feed your gradebook while instructor reports complement your ability to track student activity, assignment completion, and learning objective mastery. These real-time analytics provide quick insights into individual and class performance for tailoring course instruction to help you address the needs of struggling students.

Delivers First-day-of-class Access and Flexibility. With our 2-week grace period access, all students can use Vantage on the very first day of class. The flexibility to use Vantage on mobile, desktop, or tablet devices means your dynamic Vantage content will consistently be available to learners any time they need it.

Offers Best-in-class Technical Support and Training. Our personalized support for instructors, students, and LMS administrators facilitates an easy transition to Vantage and the quality service you’ve come to expect from Sage.

• Customizable Learning Management System (LMS) Integration. Our approach to integration empowers you to drive students to the content you want them to see in your LMS immediately following Single Sign On (SSO). In addition, automatic grade sync and full gradebook integration options can bolster timesaving, streamlined access to all your course content.
• Dedicated Technical Support. We are proud to offer robust technical assistance from our team of Sage educational technology experts based in New York. Instructors and students can access extended weekday and weekend support via phone, email, and online communication.
• Live and Self-Service Training. Synchronous training sessions are available to every Vantage adopter and complement our full suite of self-service “how-to” tools. Guided walk-throughs of basic and advanced Vantage features and live Q & A discussions empower you to personalize your course design and determine how Vantage can best support your teaching goals.

KEY FEATURES OF CORRECTIONS, FIFTH EDITION

New to this Edition:

• New sections focusing on Trauma Informed Practices, The Importance of Self-Care, and Harm Reduction origin and prevention have been added in several chapters.
• Expanded discussions on decarceration, immigration, mental illness, and the impact of COVID on correctional population and practices.
• Updated language to reflect more suitable terminologies, such as "incarcerated persons," "houseless persons," and those of "Latine descent."
• All chapters have been thoroughly updated to reflect the most current data, facts, figures, and research available, helping students understand the world of corrections today.

Key features:

• Perspective from a Practitioner boxes, written by professionals in corrections, give a glimpse into the daily lives of those working in the correctional system.
• Ethical Issues boxes ask students "What Would You Do?" to encourage critical thinking around ethical issues in corrections.
• Test Your Knowledge self-quizzes open each chapter so students can quickly determine what they know and don't know about the chapter content before they begin reading.
• Foundational coverage of the history of corrections and of special populations offers students a unique perspective.
• Comparative Perspective boxes provide a view of correctional systems in different parts of the world, while also providing insight into how alternative practices might work.
• In Focus boxes detail areas of special interest related to the chapter's content
• Its brevity offers great flexibility in teaching.