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Over the last decade there have been rising overcrowding in prisons and other correction facilities making them costly and dangerous for the inmates. There has been also a need to better manage the crime levels in the community as well as reduce crime, and give fair sentencing to adult offenders. These are the main factors that led to development of intermediate sanctions (Caputo G., 2004).

Discuss the evolution and use of boot camps. What are the purposes of shock incarceration?

The increased crime rates among the juvenile in the late 70s and early 80s led to the development of the boot camps with first being set in 1980. They are owned by the government or by private sector. It is estimated that there are almost 100 boot camps in the U.S.A. today. Shock incarceration is the alternative to incarceration which leads to earlier liberation from confinement. They are the preferred mode of correction for juveniles and first offenders for that matter. The juveniles are subjected to military-like routine with a focus on discipline and physical labor. The program is brief (cheaper) and intense (effective on the offender) and that is why it is preferred.

How successful have boot camps been?

The boot camps have been the preferred mode of correction from 1990s and the success rates have been measured by the rate of completion of the entire program pegged at 90%. The teenagers also have the uncompromised officers in the camps that instill the values that help them in the life after the camps.

What are some examples of residential community corrections facilities?

The community correction facilities include prerelease centers, restitution centers, work ethics camp, work release center, residential drug treatment facilities and community correction centers. Others are halfway houses facilities, residential community correction facilities, community service programs, day reporting centers, mandatory education programs, pre-trial intervention, electronic monitoring under house detention, diagnostic evaluation and mandatory counseling.

What goals does residential therapeutic community attempt to achieve?

The therapeutic community seeks to ensure that the offender is punished and held accountable, ensure community service work is increased, the public is protected, reduce the use of prisons as sentencing centers, coordinated use of local and state correctional resources, reducing crime in the society as well as ensuring the rehabilitation of the offenders.

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How does intensive supervision probation differ from regular probation?

The difference between the intensive supervision probation differ from regular probation is the contact between the probationer and the probation officers. The probationer under the intensive supervision will have at least four times more contact than the regular probation. 25% of the face-to-face contact with the probationer in the intensive supervision occurs in the probationers' home so as to help track the progress of the probationer.

What are the advantages and disadvantages of house arrest?

The advantages of house is that it saves costs whenever there is a feeling that the cost of maintaining a prisoner in average penitentiaries would be very expensive or the cumulative cost of the inmates is to a level where the government cannot support any more inmates. It also allows offenders or offenders of non-violent nature get rehabilitated in their home environment.

The disadvantages cold be an easy way out to punishment and the consequences may not be grave enough to deter future recidivism. Due to the continued provisions, they may disregard the fact that they are offenders and are under punishment.

Why should intermediate sanction programs have a clear goals and objectives?

There should be clear objectives so as to guard against the possibility of the probationer getting out of hand due to officers reluctance or losing the meaning and trend of the sanction program and eventual chance for recidivism.

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How is restorative justice different from traditional justice approaches?

The restorative justice is the newly preferred justice system since it does not just concentrate on the punishment of the crime and making the offender feel the pain physically but looks further into the psychological disposition of the offender after the punishment period. It strives to reduce crime rather than punish crime by rehabilitating the offender to be able to integrate back into the society while shunning crime.

How is community service used as a correctional tool?

Community service is one of the community correction facilities available with the offender made to do a specified amount or hours of manual work as a punishment to the wrongs they did. This impacts on them psychologically as the odd ones who work for no pay, but as a means of paying for their wrongs hence would not want to do the error again.

How do monetary restitution and community service differ? How are they alike?

Monetary restitution involves an agreed and written monetary compensation of the direct victim of the crime committed by the offender yet on the other hand, community service involves the offender providing labor or doing work that benefits the community in general. In terms of similarities is that the offender gets to sacrifice something and the other party benefits, be it an individual or the general public, the other concept is that they are both correction forms applied mostly to juvenile offenders.

Why don't more judges use fines as intermediate sanctions?

More judges are shunning the use of fines especially on the juvenile offenders since it is their parents who pay and the juvenile feels no pain or loss for them not to repeat the crime. The other aspect if that the laws are such that the fines are not hefty or punitive and the offenders and their families can easily afford them hence losing the essence of crime prevention.