Goals of Community Corrections.

Identify the goals of Community Corrections and determine if the goals are being met. What would be your team's recommendation to improve Community Corrections? Today, 3 out of every 4 persons under correctional supervision in the United States are on some form of community-based custody-mostly probation or parole-although community corrections also includes halfway houses, residential centers, work furlough, and all other programs for managing the offender in the community. It is a legal status, an alternative to …showed first 75 words of 878 total…

…showed last 75 words of 878 total…poor proxies for public safety. Public safety defined: As an objective for community corrections, public safety is best conceived as the condition of a place, at times when people in that place are justified in feeling free of threat to their persons and property.[2] As a condition of place and time, public safety is threatened whenever a vulnerable person or unguarded property is in the same place as a potential offender at a time when