NCJ Number
105481
Date Published
Unknown
Length
31 pages
Annotation
This information package provides brochures, media reprints, and papers describing an approach to justice that emphasizes offender accountability and rehabilitation and victims' needs.
Abstract
The Genesee County, N.Y., program employes a variety of community-based alternatives to incarceration, including intensive probation supervision, house arrest, community service, restitution, reparation, and victim-offender reconciliation. Through community service sentencing, 800 offenders have been diverted from jail, and 118 nonprofit agencies have received over 80,000 hours of work. Offenders have set a face-to-face with the victims of armed robbery, attempted manslaughter, violent assault, and sodomy. In addition, 160 victims of violent crime have held their offenders accountable; over 50 percent recommended community-based sentencing instead of incarceration. Victim-directed sentencing in felony cases has resulted in a savings of over 65 years in prison days.