SOCI 3150 Lecture 9: Module 9 -- The Corrections Industry: Technocorrections, Privatization, Probation, Parole, Big Business
22 Dec 2017
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Module 9 the corrections industry: technocorrections, privatization, probation, parole, big. Community supervision : probation & parole: community corrections. Programs designed to punish, supervise, or treat offenders within the community away from incarceration. Includes probation, parole, community service, intensive supervision program (isps), electronic monitoring, & boot camps (fastest growing segments of the correctional industrial complex) Parole > conditional release of a prisoner after serving a portion of his sentence in a correctional institution: history. Rst emerged in colonies 1655 in ga (mainly to alleviate overcrowding) Alexander maconochie (1840) : father of parole created rst mark or. Point system (earned credit for good behavior to reduce time) Motivation : eliminate determinate sentencing which leaves inmates with no hop or incentive to be good ( indeterminate sentencing = more cooperative prisoner ) Zebulon brockway : elmira reformatory b. c. Rst to institute indeterminate sentencing and parole in 1876 today. More than 850,000 adults on parole (10yr trend is up +11%)
