Learning Objectives
- Define community corrections.
- Summarize the history of corrections in the community.
- Identify recent innovations in community corrections and their effect on community corrections services.
- Evaluate the purpose and goals of community corrections.
- List the various types of correction responses in the community.
- Critique the benefits of corrections in the community over incarceration for offenders, family members of the offenders, victims, and the overall community.
- Evaluate the rights of victims regarding offenders serving corrections in the community.
- Assess the role of a probation officer.
- Examine the impact of diversity for those serving sentences in the community and those serving as officers in community corrections.
- Demonstrate an understanding of the role of technology in community corrections.