NCJ Number
132780
Journal
Crime and Delinquency Volume: 37 Issue: 4 Dated: (October 1991) Pages: 449-465
Date Published
1991
Length
17 pages
Annotation
Control and reintegration are the key components of successful community corrections. Strategies of internalization, reintegrative shaming, and victim-offender reconciliation would promote changes in the offender, the correctional process, and the community.
Abstract
Community corrections was founded on three models -- diversion, advocacy, and reintegration -- that distinguished it from institutional corrections. However, a number of developments contributed to the demise of these models. Studies of the effectiveness of correctional rehabilitation raised doubts about the efficacy of community corrections; the justice model and just deserts concept began to emerge; politicians began to promote more conservative ideas of corrections; and restitution programs were instituted in many States. The cumulative effect has been an increased emphasis on offender control and punishment. An integration of the old and new corrections models is necessary to achieve both control and punishment and offender change. Intensive supervision and intermediate sanctions must be coupled with offender reintegration into the community. Strategies of internalization, shame, and reintegration placed in the framework of a comprehensive community corrections model will force offenders to confront the wrongfulness of crime and its impact on victims and community. 3 notes and 50 references (Author abstract modified)