ACR102 Chapter Notes - Chapter 20: Electronic Tagging, Substance Abuse, Prison Overcrowding
Document Summary
Refers to the community-based management of court-ordered sanctions, post-prision administrative arraignments and fine conversions. Principally involve the provision of one or more of the fooling activities: supervision, programs, community work. 100,000 people served both types of orders in aus. 37,000 were full-time custody, they have been increasing. Only 16% were just serving the community service order, the rest were on parole or probation (abs 2015) They are needed now more than any other in aus penal history. Because increased imprison rates, causing prison overcrowding. They expectations of community corrections are equally complex, dynamic. They are expected to protect the public through social control while also working to punish/rehabilitate/reintegrate the offender to limit reoffending. Another layer of complexity: have a perceived responsibility to reduce the financial burden created by prisons. The prevailing theories of crime and its causation influence the perceived role and effectiveness of community based sanctions. Experts have disagreed over the effectiveness of the classic models of punishment.
