LEGAL CHALLENGE TO CORRECTIONS, IMPLICATIONS FOR MANPOWER AND TRAINING

• NCJ Number: 2176
• Author(s): F COHEN
• Date Published: 1969
• Length: 107 pages
• Corporate Author: Joint Cmssn on Correctional Manpower and Training
• Sale Source: American Correctional Association
• Language: English
• Country: United States of America

Annotation

LEGAL CHANGES WITHIN AND OUTSIDE THE CRIMINAL PROCESS ARE EXAMINED WITH REFERENCE TO THEIR IMPACT ON AREAS OF CORRECTIONS, SENTENCING, PROBATION AND PAROLE AND OTHERS.

Abstract

ALTHOUGH THE NEED FOR CHANGE SEEMS URGENT, SURPRISINGLY LITTLE HAS BEEN WRITTEN ABOUT THE LAW AND CORRECTIONS AND SUPRPRISINGLY LITTLE IS KNOWN ABOUT THE AREA BY CORRECTIONAL OFFICIALS AND LAWYERS. THIS WORK WAS PREPARED TO EXAMINE IN SOME DETAIL LEGAL CHANGES THAT ARE OCCURRING OUTSIDE THE AREA OF THE CRIMINAL PROCESS BUT WHICH HAVE IMPLICATIONS FOR CORRECTIONS, TO EXPLORE LEGAL CHANGES WITHIN THE CRIMINAL PROCESS, AND TO EXAMINE LEGAL NORMS IN THE ABSTRACT AS AN INTRODUCTION TO A MORE SPECIFIC ANALYSIS OF PROBLEMS IN THE AREAS OF SENTENCING, PROBATION AND PAROLE, PRISONERS' RIGHTS, AND LOSS AND RESTORATION OF CIVIL RIGHTS. THIS PUBLICATION IS SOMEWHAT HEAVILY DOCUMENTED IN ORDER TO PERMIT IT TO BE USED AS A RESOURCE DOCUMENT. THE DISPROPORTIONATELY LONG INTRODUCTION WAS DESIGNED TO POINT UP THE INTERRELATEDNESS OF CORRECTIONAL DECISION-MAKING NOT ONLY WITH THE REST OF THE CRIMINAL PROCESS BUT ALSO WITH AREAS OF LEGAL CONCERN THAT AT FIRST BLUSH SEEM TO HAVE NO RELEVANCE FOR CORRECTIONS. THE PRIMARY AUDIENCE ADDRESSED IS THE FIELD OF CORRECTIONS, ALTHOUGH THE MATERIAL BEGINNING WITH SENTENCING MAY PROVE TO BE OF INTEREST TO LAWYERS. IN BEING WRITTEN BY A LAWYER THE WORK FACES THE DILEMMA OF BEING OVER-TECHNICAL FOR NON-LAWYERS AND OVER-SIMPLIFIED FOR LAWYERS.