In this course, you have learned about institutional and community corrections. Probation and parole are two community corrections supervision approaches. Probation and parole officers use community-based resources, such as by addressing underlying mental health or substance abuse issues, to assist offenders with their reentry efforts.
Imagine you work for a community corrections agency, and you are investigating potential programs to partner with to help offenders returning to the community on either probation or parole. You will present your findings to your agency’s team meeting.
Preparation
Listen to the Week 5 Summative Assessment Guide to better understand the context and significance of this assessment. (ATTACHED, PLEASE LISTEN OR READ TRANSCRIPT)
Probation and parole officers use intermediate sanctions to enforce any special conditions imposed at sentencing (e.g., community service hours, halfway house residence, restitution) or other tools meant to address issues of noncompliant behavior by the offender.
Research alternative correctional programs, such as mental health counseling, substance abuse treatment and counseling, job placement assistance, vocational training, housing assistance, and educational training, that probation or parole officers can use to help offenders successfully reenter the community.
Assessment Deliverable
Create a 10- to 12-slide presentation to use as an aide as you speak to your agency’s team meeting. In your presentation:
- Define community corrections.
- Compare the supervision approaches of probation and parole. Focus on what the two approaches have in common and how they differ.
- Describe how intermediate sanctions can be helpful in making community supervision effective.
- Identify at least 2 community-based programs or intermediate sanctions that can be used by probation and parole officers in your area.
- Identify the target population of each program you have selected.
- Explain how each program you have selected works and how long it is intended to last.
Include a title slide, a references slide, and detailed speaker notes of at least 50 words per slide.
Cite at least 2 peer-reviewed, scholarly, or similar references in addition to the specific chapter(s) or page(s) from your textbook.
Format your citations and references according to APA guidelines.
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Through this assessment, you have a chance to see how community corrections work to help offenders returning to the community under supervision by federal and state probation o�cers as well as state parole o�cers.
It is important to know that at the federal level, parole has been replaced by supervised release, again under the supervision of federal probation o�cers.
Why do we ask you to start your presentation with a de�nition of community corrections? You may have new hires or even interns attending the presentation, and it is important that everyone starts from the same point.
The presentation also gives you a chance to see the differences and similarities between the duties and responsibilities of probation and parole o�cers.
Getting a chance to see some community-based resources to help offenders make a successful reentry into their community is a chance to see the resources that are available to help the offender, and in some cases also provide help to the offender's family.
The assignment is also an effective way to see the professional efforts made by probation and parole o�cers to try and ensure that their offenders are successful in their reentry efforts.
The community corrections approach is also being seen as a viable and successful alternative to the incarceration approach that can help reduce prison overcrowding.
This assignment gives you some idea of the many varied resources that can be made available to help in that effort.
Week 5 Summative Assessment Guide
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Week 5 Summative Assessment Guide