NCJ Number
164933
Date Published
1997
Length
479 pages
Annotation
This overview of community corrections focuses on the criminal justice system, sentencing, probation and parole, case management and service delivery strategies, intermediate sanctions, and community residential corrections programs.
Abstract
Two chapters on sentencing are concerned with sentencing decisions and options, determinate and indeterminate sentences, changes in sentencing practices, sentencing reform, presentence investigations, and intermediate controls. Chapters on probation and parole look at the historical development of probation and parole in the United States, juvenile probation, probation conditions, restitution, community service, probation revocation, the parole selection process, shock parole, factors influencing parole decisions, recidivism, parole revocation, and responsibilities of probation and parole officers. Final chapters discuss caseload assignment models, casework supervision versus brokerage supervision, case management classification systems, service delivery strategies, intermediate sanctions (intensive supervision, electronic monitoring, and house arrest), community residential corrections programs, the effectiveness of community corrections, and the future of community corrections. References, notes, tables, and figures