8: Community Corrections
Learning Objectives
Up to this point, we have spent much time on understanding crime, how it is policed, and how it is prosecuted in the courts. Like the previous one, this section will cover the last third of the justice system – corrections – focusing on punishments that happen in the community. By the end of this section, students should be able to
- Explain Community Corrections and its purposes
- Differentiate between the different types of Community Corrections
- Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of the main types of Community Correction
Background Knowledge Probe
Each chapter will begin by assessing your current knowledge about different criminal justice topics. Each of these topics will be covered by the chapter, meaning that you should be able to answer them correctly after you have completed the reading. All definitions can be seen by clicking on the bolded vocabulary terms in each chapter.
Please indicate whether you know each statement to be True or False. This is an ungraded exercise, but you may want to record which questions you answer incorrectly, so that you can verify that your knowledge has improved by the end of the chapter.
