Juveniles
Community Corrections
Cyndi Zimmerman
CJS/230
JULY 6, 2013
JOHN OPINSKI
Community Corrections
A community correction is something that an individual receives for a crime they have committed. Some of these things that a person receives is based on their criminal record, Probation status, and if they are a repeat offender. Some people are placed in jail or prison, while others are placed on community service, work release, probation, and house arrest. Community corrections affect society in which they are practiced by helping the accused try to lead a normal life by helping them when they are out in the community doing specific tasks, such as picking up trash on the side of the road. There are some people who are put on community corrections to keep them from going to jail. If the crime the person committed isn 't bad enough, then the person is assigned to do this to help do things in the community. This keeps the person from going to jail and this allows other individuals who have committed more violent crimes to be put in jail instead. The jails are already overcrowded as it is. If we allow people who have committed petty crimes to be put on probation, house arrest, or community service, then this allows for other individuals who have committed more harsh crimes, such as murder and theft to be put in jail instead. If everyone who committed a crime was sent to jail, then the jails would be so full there would not be any room left for people who commit crimes to go. They would have to build a lot of jails in every city and state in order to put these individuals behind bars.
Community corrections can be very beneficial to the individuals who are placed on probation in a sense that it gives them a second chance to redeem their wrongs in society. Community corrections vary from city to city and state to state, and were originally decentralized under the control of local courts. Currently, community based alternatives to prison are either state run programs,
Cyndi Zimmerman
CJS/230
JULY 6, 2013
JOHN OPINSKI
Community Corrections
A community correction is something that an individual receives for a crime they have committed. Some of these things that a person receives is based on their criminal record, Probation status, and if they are a repeat offender. Some people are placed in jail or prison, while others are placed on community service, work release, probation, and house arrest. Community corrections affect society in which they are practiced by helping the accused try to lead a normal life by helping them when they are out in the community doing specific tasks, such as picking up trash on the side of the road. There are some people who are put on community corrections to keep them from going to jail. If the crime the person committed isn 't bad enough, then the person is assigned to do this to help do things in the community. This keeps the person from going to jail and this allows other individuals who have committed more violent crimes to be put in jail instead. The jails are already overcrowded as it is. If we allow people who have committed petty crimes to be put on probation, house arrest, or community service, then this allows for other individuals who have committed more harsh crimes, such as murder and theft to be put in jail instead. If everyone who committed a crime was sent to jail, then the jails would be so full there would not be any room left for people who commit crimes to go. They would have to build a lot of jails in every city and state in order to put these individuals behind bars.
Community corrections can be very beneficial to the individuals who are placed on probation in a sense that it gives them a second chance to redeem their wrongs in society. Community corrections vary from city to city and state to state, and were originally decentralized under the control of local courts. Currently, community based alternatives to prison are either state run programs,
References: Residential Reentry Management. (2013). Retrieved from http://www.usdoj.gov/ Pennsylvania department of corrections. (2013). Retrieved from http://www.portal.state.pa.us/portal/server.pt/community/hide_ccc/ The Bureau of Justice Statistics. (2013). Retrieved from http://www.bjs.gov/