Task Force Report: CorrectionsU.S. Government Printing Office, 1967 - 222 pages Correctional system operation and brief account of its development as background for the presentation of the directions it must take in the future. Modern corrections are moving toward more humane treatment and greater emphasis on rehabilitation and community supervision. The new corrections require extended research and program evaluation, better decision-making, improved organization, and more and better qualified staff. The most conspicuous problems in corrections today are lack of knowledge and unsystematic approach to the development of programs and techniques. Consideration is given to the role of corrections in intake and disposition, probation, alternatives to institutionalization, correctional institutions, parole and after-care, the misdemeanant in the correctional system, the legal status of the convicted person, manpower and training, and creating change. |
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Task Force Report: Corrections United States. Task Force on Corrections Affichage du livre entier - 1967 |
Task Force Report: Corrections United States. Task Force on Corrections Affichage du livre entier - 1967 |
Task Force Report: Corrections United States. Task Force on Corrections Affichage du livre entier - 1967 |
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Page 92 - ... authorized to pass upon the competency of the defendant to perform a function or to exercise a right or privilege which such court, agency or public servant is empowered to deny, but in such case the court, agency or public servant shall also give due weight to the issuance of the order...
Page 83 - Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the Government's purposes are beneficent. Men born to freedom are naturally alert to repel invasion of their liberty by evil-minded rulers. The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding.
Page 60 - ... institutional corrections programs comes when offenders are released to the community. Whatever rehabilitation they have received, whatever deterrent effect their experience with incarceration has had, must upon release withstand the difficulties of readjustment to life in society and reintegration into employment, family, school, and the rest of community life. This is the time when most of the problems from which offenders were temporarily removed must be faced again and new problems arising...
Page 30 - In 1965 there were 6,336 juvenile probation officers and 2,940 probation officers supervising offenders convicted of felonies.10 These officers are responsible for both presentence investigations and supervision. Providing enough officers to conduct needed presentence investigations and also reduce average caseloads to 1 officer for each 35 offenders would immediately require an additional 5,300 officers and supervisors for juveniles and 8,500 for felons. PROBATION AND REINTEGRATION Probation was...
Page 83 - There are increasing signs that the courts are ready to abandon their traditional hands-off attitude. They have so far been particularly concerned with the procedures by which parole and probation are revoked. But recent cases suggest that the whole correctional area will be increasingly subject to judicial supervision.
Page 28 - Probation in the United States is administered by hundreds of independent agencies operating under a different law in each State and under widely varying philosophies, often within the same State. They serve juvenile, misdemeanant, and felony offenders. In one city, a single State or local agency might be responsible for handling all three kinds of probation cases; in another, three separate agencies may be operating, each responsible for a different type of probationer. All of these probation programs...
Page 119 - This chapter shall be liberally construed to the end that each child coming within the jurisdiction of the court shall receive such care, guidance and control, preferably in his own home, as will...
Page 62 - ... these States in the same year were 99, 89, 47, 87, and 88 respectively. The five States with the shortest median time served for felonies before first release were New Hampshire, Maine, South Dakota, Montana, and Vermont, with percentages of release by parole of 98, 92, 49, 90, and 5 respectively.1 Arguments couched in terms of "leniency" deflect attention from a more important problem.
Page 70 - ... as 75 or even more. Such a caseload average would permit intensive supervision of those offenders who appear to have a potential for violence, as well as those with special treatment needs. It would enable the officer to have significant face-to-face contacts with offenders and to deal with emerging problems before they led to failure and perhaps to further offenses. With such a reasonable workload, the officer would have time to contact employers, families, schools, and law enforcement agencies...
Page 5 - The boy begins to talk. He explains that he began to "slip into the wrong crowd" a year or so after his stepfather died. He says that it would help him to talk about it. But there is no time; the waiting room is full, and the boy is not scheduled to come back for another 15-minute conference until next month. A parole officer feels that a 29-year-old man, on parole after serving 3 years for burglary, is heading for trouble.