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The Oklahoma Correctional Association (OCA) is a multidisciplinary organization consisting of correctional professionals, individuals, agencies, and organizations involved in all aspects of the criminal justice system.

The association was created in 1981 as the Oklahoma Criminal Justice Association. In 1982, it affiliated with the American Correctional Association to provide dual membership for its constituents. This affiliation gave the organization opportunity to become an advocate for issues of local and state importance while having strong support from a national organization whose roots date back to 1870, and it led to a revitalization in 1987 when the organization was renamed the Oklahoma Correctional Association. It is the mission of the OCA to provide its membership with the educational benefits of national and state conferences and workshops as well as exposure to fellowship and networking opportunities with other professionals in all aspects of the criminal justice profession.

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It is the mission of the OCA to provide its membership with the educational benefits of national and state conferences and workshops as well as exposure to fellowship and networking opportunities with other professionals in all aspects of the criminal justice profession.

The criminal justice system includes three key components. Those elements are courts, criminal laws, and corrections. Each component is defined according to the American criminal justice system as a body of law recognized by the state. Each jurisdiction has the power and responsibility to define its own system of criminal justice.

Criminal law is the body of law designed to punish criminal conduct and to allow for remedies if these conduct has been found guilty. Corrections is the system which is created to ensure that criminal justice system enacted in the state provides for the rehabilitation of offenders while they pay for their crimes through probation, parole, incarceration, or instruction in community service according to mercurynews. The criminal justice system and the corrections system must work hand-in-hand to achieve meaningful reductions in crime.