Community-Based Corrections

Up-to-date, comprehensive, and objective, COMMUNITY-BASED CORRECTIONS gives you essential information on the wide array of punishment and treatment programs that constitute alternatives to incarceration. You'll be introduced into a number of programs--such as probation, parole, electronic monitoring, house arrest, day-treatment centers, boot camps, restitution, and fines-designed to meet the needs and levels of risk posed by the individual offender. Additionally, you will learn about the practical and legal matters involved in running these programs, and you'll gain insight into their historical, philosophical, social, and legal underpinnings.

• Police Operations: Theory and Practice
• Criminal Law
• Criminal Law Today (5th Edition)
• Fitness and Wellness
• Criminal Investigation
• Introduction to Private Security
• The American System of Criminal Justice
• Report Writing for Criminal Justice Professionals, Fifth Edition
• Red Hills and Cotton: An Upcountry Memory (Southern Classics)
• Criminology: Theories, Patterns, and Typologies