CORRECTIONS

Corrections Paper for Criminal Justice

Abstract

Correction practices in criminal justice have been adopted into most criminal justice systems, especially for youth. International organizations have delivered recommendations and statements to promote the implementation of restorative principles and practices to address crime. This paper analyzes the probation and parole correction strategies. Statistics shows that government has made contraction in correction system to address the fundamental flaws in the judicial system. The presentence investigation and the probation intake assessment also provide the judge with a basis for setting the special conditions of the sentence. Probation and parole officers are responsible for enforcing the conditions of community supervision.

Corrections Paper for Criminal Justice

Introduction

Victims have become an important focal point within correctional programs throughout recent decades. It is important to note, however, that this has not always been the case. Correction officials have now instituted programs such as restorative justice and victim notification programs in order to increase the roles that victims play within correctional settings. Crime control alludes to maintenance of a given or existing level of crime and management of that amount of crime behavior. True crime prevention looks to do more than just maintain a certain level of crime or to manage offenders and crime.

This paper examines the correction resources that are available as an alternative to an active sentence in the community. This paper highlights different correction strate3gies to prevent the crime. This paper examines the history of community correction and analyzes the current statistics of people confronting the correction states.

The correctional system also utilizes criminal sanctions such as incarceration (e.g., jails, detention centers, prisons, juvenile correctional facilities, community residential centers), supervision/monitoring (e.g., probation, parole, intensive supervision probation, electronic monitoring), and community restoration (e.g., fines, restitution, community service) to assist in decreasing the rate of criminal behavior (Tilley, 2005). While incarcerated, or in a community release program, treatment is often an integral goal of corrections. The process of correction includes (1) restoring the property lost or injury, (2) reinstating their sense of security, dignity, and sense of empowerment, (3) restoring deliberative democracy, (4) re-establishing harmony, based on feelings of obtained justice, and (5) restoring social support from family and friends (Marques et al., 2005). Community correction in criminal justice includes probation, parole, home confinement, and electronic monitoring. This paper only focuses on probation and parole as a restorative function.

Probation and Parole - Corrective Action

Probation and parole are responsible for the supervision of more than 5 million adult offenders in the United States. Probation is a sentence in lieu of incarceration that monitors people under conditions of release. The two types of probation conditions are mandatory and special. Mandatory conditions are defined by state or federal statutes apply to every individual sentenced to probation (BJS, 2010). These conditions generally include not owning or carrying a weapon, reporting to a probation officer on a schedule that is determined by the officer at intake, leaving jurisdiction only with the judge's knowledge and approval, allowing unannounced home visits by the officer, and remaining free of arrests during the probation ...