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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Community-based corrections"”.
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Community-based corrections: Offender characteristics and success in a halfway house
… have sparked renewed interest in alternative or community-based sentencing options. These non-incarcerative sentences hold the potential for both reining in skyrocketing costs and also providing a more effective setting for rehabilitative interventions. One type of community-based program is the …
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Funding Criteria as an Impediment to the Reintegrative Model in Community Based Corrections for Juveniles: A Casestudy
… of the impact of an extra-agency factor upon community based corrections, thereby (2) demonstrating the importance of including extra-agency factors in the research design of evaluative research examining community based corrections. Toward this end, the reintegration model of corrections was …
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An Exploratory Study of a Female Halfway House/Work Release Center
The problem. The intent of this exploratory study was to understand and document the feelings, attitudes and perceptions of the residents at the Fort Des Moines Women's Residential Correctional Facility. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the gathered data and identify the variables which …
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Community service in Uganda as an alternative to imprisonment: a case study of Masaka and Mukono districts
Community service as an alternative to imprisonment at its inception was taken up very strongly by the judiciary as part of the reform of the criminal justice system in Uganda. The successful enactment of the Community Service Act, Act no: 5/2000, was an achievement towards the implementation of …
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The Evaluation of Sharper Future: A Community-Based Sex Offender Treatment Program
<p>A program evaluation of Sharper Future’s Substance Abuse Services Coordinating Agency (SASCA) sex offender treatment program was conducted in order to ascertain whether the program is meeting its treatment goals as outlined by the SASCA contract and Sharper Future program goals. The participants …