This chapter discusses community-based corrections, which involves decentralizing authority over corrections from state to local levels, redefining who should be incarcerated, and using rehabilitation programs in the community. It covers evidence-based corrections practices, intermediate sanctions between probation and incarceration, and the goals of community-based corrections including retributive justice and restorative justice. Finally, it outlines six key components of an effective policy framework for community corrections based on research.

1. Chapter 1
Why Study Community-Based
Corrections?:
Using Evidence-Based Practices, Risk
Assessment, and Intermediate Sanctions to
Reduce Crime and Protect the Community
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Why Study Community-Based
Corrections?
 What Is Community-Based Corrections?
 Evidence-Based Corrections
 Intermediate Sanctions
 Community-Based Corrections Acts
 Goals of Community-Based Corrections
 Policy Implications

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What Is Community-Based
Corrections?
 Decentralization of authority from state to
local levels
 Citizen participation in all areas
 Redefining whom should be incarcerated
 Rehabilitation through community
programs

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What Is Community-Based
Corrections?
 Community policing
 Community-based prosecution
 Community-based defender services
 Community courts

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Evidence-Based Corrections
The application of social scientific
techniques to the study of everyday
corrections procedures for the purpose of
increasing effectiveness and enhancing the
efficient use of available resources.

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What Makes a Practice
Evidence Based?
 It has a definable outcome(s)
 The outcome is measurable
 The outcome is defined according to
practical realities

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Correctional Quackery
The use of treatment interventions that are
based on neither
1) Existing knowledge of the causes of crime
2) Existing knowledge of what programs
have been shown to change offender
behavior

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Intermediate Sanctions
Criminal sentences that fall between
standard probation and incarceration.

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Intermediate Sanctions
 Intensive supervision
 Day reporting centers
 Home confinement/house arrest
 Remote location monitoring
 Fines

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Intermediate Sanctions
 Restitution
 Community service
 Boot camps
 Residential community centers
 Drug court

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Community-Based Corrections
Acts
Designed to decentralize services and
engage local communities in the process
of reintegrating offenders.

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Goals of Community-Based
Corrections
 Retributive Justice
 Restorative Justice

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Retributive Justice
 Everyone should get what they deserve.
 Focus is on the law and the need of the
community to exact revenge.

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Retributive Justice
 Revenge
 Retribution
 Just deserts
 Deterrence – Specific and General
 Incapacitation
 Rehabilitation

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Restorative Justice
 Focuses on allowing offenders to make
amends to their victims
 Crime viewed as a violation of one person
by another

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Restorative Justice Programs
 Victim-offender mediation
 Conferencing
 Circle sentencing
 Victim assistance

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Policy Implications
 Pew Center
Research
 Policy Framework to
Strengthen
Community
Corrections

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Six Key Components of Policy
Framework
 Sort offenders by risk to public safety
 Base intervention programs on science
 Harness technology

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Six Key Components of Policy
Framework
 Impose swift and certain sanctions for
violations
 Create incentives for success
 Measure progress