Corrections in the Community, Second Edition

• NCJ Number: 179412
• Author(s): Edward J. Latessa; Larry E. Allen
• Date Published: 1999
• Length: 547 pages
• Sale Source: Anderson Publishing Co
• Publication Format: Book (Softbound)
• Publication Type: Overview Text
• Language: English
• Country: United States of America

Annotation

This textbook describes and explains corrections in the community.

Abstract

Community corrections programs are found in the pre-adjudication level of justice systems and include diversion and pretrial release programs as well as treatment programs provided by private sector agencies, particularly for juveniles. Community corrections programs designed to minimize offenders’ further processing and penetration into the justice system include restitution, community services, active probation, intensive supervised probation, house arrest, and residential community facilities such as halfway houses. The effort to minimize offender penetration into the justice system is based on the assumption that incarceration is less effective in reintegrating offenders and is unnecessarily expensive for the good attained. Community corrections that continue after, and sometimes are combined with, incarceration include split sentences, shock incarceration and shock probation, prison furlough programs, work and educational release, shock parole, and parole programs and services. The book discusses the effectiveness and future of corrections in the community. Figures, tables, notes, references, bibliographies, glossary, indexes