NCJ Number
19952
Date Published
1975
Length
17 pages
Annotation
THE CURRENT CORRECTIONAL SYSTEM AND ITS PROBLEMS ARE DESCRIBED, FOLLOWED BY A COMPARISON OF FIVE THEORETICAL CORRECTIONAL MODELS AND DISCUSSION OF THREE POSSIBLE APPROACHES TO REORGANIZING THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM.
Abstract
REORGANIZATION IS CONSIDERED AS A SOLUTION TO THE STATE'S CORRECTIONAL PROBLEMS OF FRAGMENTATION, LACK OF OVERALL PLANNING AND POLICY, AND INCONSISTENT TREATMENT. APPROACH ONE IS DIRECT STATE MANAGEMENT OF ALL PUBLIC CORRECTIONS SYSTEMS; APPROACH TWO WOULD CONSIST OF HAVING SEVERAL SEMI-AUTONOMOUS REGIONS, FUNDED AND MONITORED BY A STATE AGENCY; APPROACH THREE WOULD PUT LOCAL AGENCIES IN CHARGE OF LOCAL CORRECTIONS WITH THE STATE SUBSIDIZING AND MONITORING FOR UNIFORM STANDARDS. THE FIVE CORRECTIONAL MODELS DISCUSSED ARE TERMED AS FOLLOWS: PUNISHMENT, REHABILITATION, INFORMAL ADAPTATION, REFORM (HEAVILY COMMUNITY-BASED), AND ENHANCED PROBATION. THE STUDY CONCLUDES THAT THE STATE'S FUTURE SYSTEM WILL BE SOME COMBINATION OF THE LAST THREE MODELS. (AUTHOR ABSTRACT MODIFIED)