Probation Vs Probation

Probation has become the most common sentence ruled in a court of law. With Prisons overflowing with criminals, alternative forms of punishment have become the top choice when dealing with violent adult offenders. The number of individuals on probation has become two times the amount of the prison population. Putting more of these people on probation was a way to neutralize the issue of overcrowding. Statistically, the numbers of those incarcerated have dropped due to probation but have crime rates?

Statistics show that crime rates have not dropped since the introduction of probation. In fact, the total number of violent or property crimes almost doubles every nine years or so. This was until around the 2000s. At the end of the 1990s, the