Community Corrections Paper CJS/230 University of Phoenix Community corrections supervise offenders in communities and work release facilities. Community corrections will provide guidance‚ support‚ and programs for all offenders that are returning to the community. They will hold all offenders accountable to their imposed conditions. The correctional department is one of the functions of our criminal justice system and they are responsible for ensuring the sentencing received by the offender
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CHAPTER 1 THE PROBLEM AND A REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE Correction is believed by many experts to be the most challenging and frustrating component of criminal justice. There are the challenges of managing the inmates daily as well as the frustrations of inevitable mismanagement at attempting to accomplish multiple goals. New challenges present themselves every day. In a very real sense‚ employees in a correctional system are doing time the same as the inmates are doing time. It’s easy
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COMMUNITY CORRECTION Community Correction Ines Romero College of the Southwest CRJ 3313 Correctional Process Professor Lynn Baade 7 October 2011 Community Corrections Community corrections programs are the step stool in controlling prison functions‚ but it was not until the 1970’s‚ community-based programs sprang up across the country (Seiter‚ pg.106). This was the starting point that the government caught wind of it and its strengths. Along
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Community Corrections Kit Vanden Heuvel CJS/230 July 31‚ 2011 Maria Brewer Community Corrections Community corrections address many complex issues that plague the criminal justice system in the United States. Many alternatives have come to fruition in an attempt to decrease incarceration‚ rehabilitate offenders‚ lower crime rates‚ reduce recidivism‚ and control costs. We currently lead all other nations in producing prisoners. Community corrections could put us in a more positive and productive
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Community corrections is a range of alternative punishments for nonviolent offenders. There are two basic community corrections models in the United States. In the first model‚ integrated community corrections programs combine sentencing guidelines and judicial discretion ("front-end") with a variety of alternative sanctions and parole and probation options. In the second model‚ some states have instituted programs in which correctional officials may direct already sentenced offenders into alternative
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Nicole Daniels Lang Community Corrections CCJ4400 Robert Mark McWilliams February 22‚ 2015 Community Corrections Community Corrections is made up of many different types of agencies working together. There are deterrence programs‚ parole officers and re-entry personnel to help an inmate who is going to be able to use community corrections after release from prison or jail. These people and agencies help the inmate to transition back into the community and also help them to use the available
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The U.S. correctional system has come under critical public scrutiny which has corrections administrators scrambling to find ways to run effective correctional facilities. The reality of corrections administration today is that it is changing. Major issues of this changing environment include ongoing budget concerns‚ privatization‚ technology‚ overcrowding‚ program issues‚ personnel management‚ security issues‚ and legal issues. This paper examines these current issues facing correctional administrators
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U.S. Correctional System Our correctional systems have quite a few ways to punish offenders. Some are made to do community service and work to make up for the offense that he or she committed. You also have those who are fined for the offense and must pay the cost by the date requested or there will be other penalties such as‚ the offender having to serve jail time. There are individuals who report crime that takes place inside the neighborhood to law enforcement. Without such
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Introduction Criminologist and politicians have debated the effectiveness of correctional rehabilitation programs since the 1970’s when criminal justice scholars and policy makers throughout the United States embraced Robert Martinson’s credo of “nothing works” (Shrum‚ 2004). Recidivism‚ the rate at which released offenders return to jail or prison‚ has become the most accepted outcome measure in corrections. The public’s desire to reduce the economic and social costs associated with crime and incarceration
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Community Correction Paper May 27‚ 2012 CJS/230 – Introduction to Corrections Community corrections programs are to oversee offenders outside of jail or prison‚ and are administered by agencies or courts with the legal authority to enforce sanctions. Such community corrections programs are probation and parole. There are also sub-programs that are parts of community corrections; such programs are drug-involved offenders‚ sex offender programs‚ and electronic monitoring technologies.
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