CJS 105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Deinstitutionalisation, Prison Overcrowding, Designated Place
24 Dec 2020
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Deinstitutionalisation divert, serve in the community: probation, good behaviour bond, suspended or deferred sentence, community service order, intensive supervision orders. Decarceration serve some in community or after release: parole, day leave schemes, conditional release orders, prison work camps, home detention. Side door diverted during prison term. Trapdoor emergency programs due to overcrowding. Connection between use of community correction and increase in incarceration. The value in diverting offenders (prison not rehabilitative experience) To address issue of proportionality managing offenders in different risk classifications. Concern about the effects of prison environment most will be released back into community. Community corrections are roughly split into 5 programs: home detention (low, community supervision (high use, community service (moderate use, drug treatment courts (very low use, fines (very high in qld) Collectively amounts to 60-75% of the correctional population. May have to attend treatment programs, community service. Home detention is an alternative to prison.
