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                                    The Potential of Community Corrections To Improve Safety and Reduce Incarceration

      

                    
          
    The Potential of Community Corrections to Improve Safety and Reduce Incarceration
“As the size and cost of jails and prisons have grown, so too has the awareness that public investment in incarceration has not yielded the expected return on public safety. Today, in the United States, an opportunity exists to reexamine the wisdom of our reliance on institutional corrections-incarceration in prisons or jails-and to reconsider the role of community-based corrections, which encompasses probation, parole, and pretrial supervision ... States and counties are moving to shift the burden from institutional to community corrections, sending greater numbers of offenders to supervision agencies with heightened expectations of success but often without the additional resources necessary to do the job that is being asked of them ... There is considerable variability within and across states in the way community corrections is organized and financed. Agency responsibilities and accountability also differ” (p. 2). Since this report explains what the current state of and emerging strategies for community corrections, anyone working to strengthen the field or seeking to understand the potential of community corrections to reduce the recidivism of offenders should read this report. Sections cover: what community corrections is; its current state; emerging best practices; current practices that need more research; recent policy changes in community corrections; and moving forward-recommendations to the field.Accession Number
              027457

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  Publication Year
              2013

  Length
              36 pages

  Authors
          Peggy McGarry
          Alison Shames
          Allon Yaroni
          Karen Tamis
          Ram Subramanian
          Lauren-Brooke Eisen
          Leon Digard
          Ruth Delaney
          Sara Sullivan

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          Vera Institute of Justice. Center on Sentencing and Corrections (New York NY).
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