Encyclopedia of community corrections [electronic resource] / Shannon M. Barton-Bellessa, editor.

9781412990844 (electronic bk.)
1412990831
9781412990837

Thousand Oaks, Calif. : SAGE, c2012.

English

1 online resource (xxviii, 487 p.) : ill.

HV9279 .E46 2012eb

365/.603

In response to recognition in the late 1960s and early 1970s that traditional incarceration was not working, alternatives to standard prison settings were sought and developed. One of those alternatives-community-based corrections-had been conceived in the 1950s as a system that might prove more progressive, humane, and effective, particularly with people who had committed less serious criminal offenses and for whom incarceration, with constant exposure to serious offenders and career criminals, might prove more damaging than rehabilitative. Explores all aspects of community corrections, from its philosophical foundation to its inception in the 1970s through current day issues regarding this aspect of the criminal justice system.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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