CRJU 20413 Chapter 10: Chapter 10

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Chapter 10 probation, parole, and community corrections pages 309-327. Community corrections are the use of a variety of officially ordered program-based sanctions that permit convicted offenders to remain in the community under conditional supervision as an alternative to an active prison sentence. Probation is a sentence of imprisonment that is suspended. Also, a court-ordered period of correctional supervision in the community, generally as an alternative to incarceration. The goal is to retain some control over criminal offenders while using community programs to help rehabilitate them. Today, probation is the most common form of criminal sentencing in the united states. Offenders under correctional supervision in the united states, by type of supervision. Probation revocation is a (cid:272)ourt order taki(cid:374)g a(cid:449)ay a (cid:272)o(cid:374)(cid:448)i(cid:272)ted offe(cid:374)der"s pro(cid:271)atio(cid:374)ary status and usually withdrawing the conditional freedom associated with that status in response to a violation of the conditions of probation. Conditions are two types: general and specific:

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