CJS 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Deinstitutionalisation, Sentenced, Suspended Sentence
Document Summary
Community corrections: the historical context: community corrections: community based management of a variety of court ordered sanctions, which serve as either non-custodial sentencing alternatives or post-custodial mechanisms for reintegrating ex-prisoners back into the community. Community based correctional orders vary greatly with respect to the extent and nature of supervision and conditions: two cornerstones of it: Mounting evidence of the general failure of the correctional services system to both stem recidivism (to deter offenders) and release the rehabilitative ideals (to do offenders good). Concerns expressed by civil libertarians regarding the potential for abrogation of human rights and legal safeguards introduced by reformative models of treatment. Humanitarian concerns for the unintended, negative effects of incarceration on prisoners. Rapidly increasing prison populations, leading to overcrowding and a consequent intensification of fiscal pressures on the state. Advocated the removal of diversion of individuals from institution facilities.
