Corrections: (a report)

The Commission recommends specific standards in pursuit of the achievement of six major goals for the improvement of the American correctional system. The American correctional system today appears to offer minimum protection for the public and maximum harm to the offender. The National Advisory Com...

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Körperschaft: USA National Advisory Commission on Criminal Justice Standards and Goals (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Washington U.S. Government Printing Office 1973
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Zusammenfassung:The Commission recommends specific standards in pursuit of the achievement of six major goals for the improvement of the American correctional system. The American correctional system today appears to offer minimum protection for the public and maximum harm to the offender. The National Advisory Commission on Criminal Justice Standards and Goals, in its report on corrections, has proposed about 140 standards designed to change that situation. The standards spell out in detail where, why, how, and what improvements can and should be made in the corrections segment of the criminal justice system. This report is a reference work for the correctional professional as well as for the interested layman. Among its goals, the commission urges that disparities in sentencing be removed and justice in corrections be upheld by measures guaranteeing offenders' rights during and after incarceration. The scope of corrections can, and should, be narrowed by diverting many juveniles and sociomedical cases (alcoholics, drug addicts, prostitutes, and the mentally disturbed) to noncorrectional treatment programs and by decriminalizing certain minor offenses such as public drunkenness and vagrancy. Another goal states that probation should become the standard criminal sentence, retaining confinement chiefly for dangerous offenders and releasing a majority of offenders to improved and extended community-based programs. Corrections should undergo a planned integration into the total criminal justice system with each state unifying all correctional functions and programs for adults and juveniles within its executive branch
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references
Foreword / Russell W. Peterson -- Preface / Joe Frazier Brown -- Masthead -- Chapter 1. Corrections and the criminal justice system -- Part I. Chapter 2. Rights of offenders -- Chapter 3. Diversion from the criminal justice process -- Chapter 4. Pretrial release and detention -- Chapter 5. Sentencing -- Chapter 6. Classifications of offenders -- Part II. Correctional programs. Chapter 7. Corrections and the community -- Chapter 8. Juvenile intake and detention -- Chapter 9. Local adult institutions -- Chapter 10. Probation -- Chapter 11. Major institutions -- Chapter 12. Parole -- Part III. Cross-section of corrections. Chapter 13. Organization and administration -- Chapter 14. Manpower for corrections -- Chapter 15. Research and development, information, and statistics -- Chapter 16. The statutory framework of corrections -- Part IV. Direction for change. Chapter 17. Priorities and implementation strategies -- Appendix. Data on correctional organization -- Commission members -- Task force members -- Advisory task force members -- Index -- Photo credits
Beschreibung:xix, 636 S. Ill. 26 cm