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Issues in Residential Community Corrections Policy and Practice

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Lindsay, Margot C.

National Institute of Corrections (Washington, DC)

Published 1990. 9 pages.

Directed at policymakers, the first issue of an NIC series outlines an approach for integrating residential community corrections within the available sanctions of a specific jurisdiction. An initial overview describes changes in sentencing purposes and laws, trends in corrections, and the effects of correctional changes on residential community corrections. A framework is presented for integrating residential community corrections into a comprehensive corrections policy. The author reviews sentencing purposes while considering the role of residential community corrections on offender rehabilitation, punishment, deterrence, and incapacitation. In addition to a role in probation enhancement, residential community corrections are examined as a means of controlling prison overcrowding through reduced admissions and the promotion of early release. In the concluding section, the author provides a model for limited risk control in residential community corrections. Accession Number: 009499

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