Community corrections An applied approach / Dennis J. Stevens
Imprint
Upper Saddle River, N.J. : Pearson Prentice Hall, 2006
Descript
xxvii, 558p. : ill ; 24 cm
CONTENT
Approaches in community corrections -- Entry process, sentence strategies, and intermediate sanactions -- Classification -- Supervision strategies -- pretrial release and diversion -- Probation: nature, history, and statistics -- Process of probation and the role of probation officers -- Parole: nature, history, and statistics -- Parole: processes, rights, and services -- Residential intermediate sanctions -- Juveniles: the dependency Era -- Women, elderly, and the disabled -- Mental illness and sex offenders