CRJ303 Week 4 – Discussion 1 Functions and Issues for Alternative Sentencing and Community Corrections
Prior to beginning work on this discussion, please review the assigned material in your Stojkovic and Lovell (2019) textbook and review Alternative Sentences (Links to an external site.). You may also wish to consider some of the recommended resources for this week. Your initial post consists of two parts:
- Part 1
- Discuss objectives and issues for alternative sentencing.
- To help you with this part, consider the discussion of various alternative sanctions (where alternative sentencing may focus on sanctions other than or replacing incarceration) in your textbook Chapter 7.
- Identify ways in which probation meets or fails to meet the goals of sentencing, considering how probation is not often perceived as a function of corrections.
- Discuss objectives and issues for alternative sentencing.
- Part 2
- The textbook provides several examples of community corrections as a means of reintegrating formerly incarcerated persons into communities. Explain how reintegration after a term of incarceration relates to social justice and criminal justice objectives. In addition, give an example of a community corrections effort whose aim is assisting with reintegration.
Your initial post should be at least 250 words in length. Support your claims with examples from any required material or other scholarly resources and properly cite any references.
Guided Response: Review several of your classmates’ posts. Respond to at least two of them by Day 7 by providing an alternative form of community reintegration you believe is more productive than your peers’. Support your claims with examples from any required material or other scholarly resources, properly citing any references. You are encouraged to post your required replies earlier in the week to promote more meaningful and interactive discourse in this discussion forum. Continue to monitor the discussion forum until 5:00 p.m. (mountain time) on Day 7 and respond robustly to anyone who replies to your initial post.
CRJ303 Week 4 – Discussion 1 Functions and Issues for Alternative Sentencing and Community Corrections Answer
A community corrections program is a program that is supervised within the community and provided to criminal offenders regarding pre-and post-conviction (Stojkovic & Lovell (2019). The programs are regulated and administered through the institutional system of prisons and the offender is monitored outside of the prison. Corrections must collaborate with community groups and organizations. The cooperation will allow them to take advantage and utilize all the community resources to facilitate the offender’s reintegration……..
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