NCJ Number
183669
Date Published
1999
Length
551 pages
Annotation
This text examines community-based corrections for adults and juveniles, with emphasis on the methods for classifying and supervising offenders; the background, education, and training that community correctional agents should possess; and the effectiveness and costs of community corrections.
Abstract
The text also focuses on recent innovations in community corrections and intermediate sanctions, the effectiveness of these sanctions compared to incarceration, and the future of community-based corrections. Individual chapters discuss corrections policies, statistics, and trends; changes in sentencing policies; indeterminate and determinate sentences; and contemporary sentencing practices related to jail and prison. Additional chapters address the development and current practice of probation; the use of juvenile probation; the development of parole; probation and parole decision making; the roles of probation and parole officers; and strategies for classifying, managing, and servicing offenders. Further sections discuss intensive supervision, electronic monitoring, day reporting, house arrest, community residential correctional programs, and findings of studies of the effectiveness of community corrections. The analysis concludes that community-based corrections is appropriate for a larger proportion of offenders and that the development of a logical set of sentencing policies with clear goals and a wide range of sentencing options and sanctions would begin to address public safety on a more sound foundation than is currently the case. Figures; tables; photographs; sample forms; glossary; list of corrections-related web sites; name index; subject index; and chapter discussion questions, lists of terms, recommended readings, notes, author biographies, and reference lists