CRIM 1447 Lecture Notes - Lecture 26: Restorative Justice, Risk Assessment
31 Dec 2018
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Corrections: society"s effort to punish and treat those who break the law and thereby protect the public. Community corrections: diverse array of programs or sanctions that allow offenders to serve their sentence within the community: goals of community corrections: punishment, ensuring safety, rehabilitation, nonintervention, restorative justice. Net-widening: a problem in community corrections that entails the increased severity of sentencing for traditionally minor offenses. What percent of offenders go to prison to never be release- 5% The vast majority (nearly all) inmates are either supervised in or released into the community: aim is to balance rehabilitation and community safety. Probation: a sentence that suspends or delays a term of full-time incarceration in prison or jail, in lue of prison. Parole: early conditional release of a prisoner from incarceration after successfully serving a portion of his/her sentence (ex. 85% in prison, 15% of sentence on parole) can be sent back for breaking parole- ex. fail drug test or don"t hold a job.
