CCJS 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Halfway House, Suspended Sentence

• School: University of Maryland
• Department: Criminology and Criminal Justice
• Course: CCJS 100
• Professor: Justine Madoo

Document Summary

Community corrections wants to keep offenders in community. Probation and intermediate sanctions are used to avoid imprisonment. Parole involves completing a sentence after a period of incarceration. Correction without incarceration conditional release into community, with some form of supervision probation officer drug tests make you keep a job certain places you can live and not live regular meetings with probation officer. Intervention is proposed but with deeply unrealistic expectations. Intervention is implemented but does not meet unrealistic goals. Policy makers develop a new intervention that will be labeled the next great thing community corrections. Began as a volunteer service of regular citizens. Was adopted as a correctional practice in late 1800s. 1967 president johnson"s commission on law enforcement and administration of justice. Early years moral leadership, respect for family, religion, employment. 1970s risk management minimize probability that offender will commit a new offense. Straight probation just probation, no other things.