NCJ Number
179521
Date Published
1990
Length
30 pages
Annotation
This document features articles on intermediate sanctions and data concerning the numbers of children missing or abducted in the United States in 1988. It also contains abstracts of other publications on topics of interest to criminal justice professionals.
Abstract
Intermediate punishments offer a way to reserve prison space for dangerous offenders while exercising greater control over nonviolent offenders released to the community. Intermediate sanctions include a variety of options, from fines to shock incarceration programs and electronic monitoring. The number of States with shock incarceration programs went up almost 50 percent between 1989 and 1990, and the use of electronic monitoring continued to triple each year. The document includes abstracts of publications concerning corrections; courts; crime prevention; juvenile justice; law enforcement; probation and parole; reference and statistics; technology and systems; and victims. Figures