the juvenile in need (The Core 2005). Programs used within Community treatment are probation‚ restitution‚ vocational training‚ and treatment service such as drug or alcohol counseling. These programs may be used alone or in conjunction with one another. Probation is used for those juveniles who are not a threat to the community and better served by allowing treatment within the community. Those given probation enter into a contract of sorts with the court. The offender agrees to obey rules and
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attempt to explain and discuss probation and how it compares to other forms of sentencing‚ the types of prison‚ the origins of rehabilitation in prisons‚ parole and how it differs from mandatory release and finally options of community corrections. Ending the essay will be a critique on the current rehabilitation options. The history of probation in the United States started in Boston in 1841. Starting with probation and how it differs to other forms of sentencing‚ probation is a prison sentence that
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programs are a form of probation. The concept of probation was created by John Augustus‚ who was a Boston shoemaker‚ and was credited with being the “Father of Probation”. Augustus noticed through what took place in courts that minor offenders and alcohol abusers were sent to jail because of the inability to pay off fines. Being offended and disturbed by this action‚ Augustus made an agreement with authorities to pay off the offenders fines and give them friendly supervision. Between 1841 and 1858
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Should intermediate sanctions be run by traditional probation and prison systems or by new private or public agencies seeking to serve as alternatives to them? List two benefits and two challenges for each of these strategies and provide your own policy recommendation about which one should be used (and why). Overcrowding of prisons and unnecessary incarceration rates is one of the major problems in the United States today. As stated in Chapter 9‚ “ more then 60 billion dollars is spent on corrections
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integrated community corrections programs combine sentencing guidelines and judicial discretion with a variety of alternative sanctions and parole and probation options. In the second model‚ some states have instituted programs in which correctional officials may direct already sentenced offenders into alternative sanction programs and parole and probation options. Both models are designed to help reduce prison overcrowding
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imprisonment or probation. These types of sanctions are less restrictive than imprisonment but more restrictive than probation. Intermediate sanctions are usually combined with imprisonment‚ probation‚ and each other. These sanctions are divided into two sub groups‚ judicially administered and probation administered. Judicially administered intermediate sanctions consist of fines‚ community service‚ restitution‚ forfeiture of property‚ and pretrial diversion groups. Probation administered intermediate
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Probation and parole uses three main concepts or three main models. The three models are the control model‚ the social services model and the combined model. Each one of these models is based on different concepts and how probation and parole should be handled. Not only is there three models in probation and parole‚ but there is also three roles included in these models. There is the law enforcement role‚ the treatment role‚ and the blend role. Each of these roles plays a part in a certain model
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mentally retarded offenders. This Research in Action examines different criminal justice case management models and critical issues regarding existing case management programs. The case management of offenders is most likely to be supervised by probation and parole officers. Based on the social service models of the late 1960s and early 1970s‚ today’s criminal justice case management models link inmates returning to the community with drug treatment programs‚ mental health services‚ and social service
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humiliation it inflicts on the individual. “Under the Eighth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution‚ individuals convicted of a crime have the right to be free of cruel and unusual punishment while in jail or prison” (Cruel and Unusual‚ 2017). Juvenile Intensive
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undeserved that a sentence can be just or unjust‚” he concluded. Once a person has been arrested‚ tried‚ and sentenced‚ the correctional process begins. Unlike Lewis’s exhortation‚ however‚ the contemporary American correctional system—which includes probation‚ parole‚ jails‚ prisons‚ capital punishment‚ and a variety of innovative alternatives to traditional sentences—is tasked with far more than merely carrying out sentences. We also ask of our correctional system that it ensure the
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