Rhetoric and Reality: A Critical Appraisal of Community Correctional Programs

Hylton, John H.

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“…Scholarly interest in the intentions and consequences of penal reform emerged in the 1970s with studies focused on the penal control consequences of the juvenile diversion programs that proliferated throughout the United States during the late 1960s and 1970s. Evidence of a netwidening effect of these diversion programs was documented in the late 1970s and early 1980s (Austin and Krisberg, 1981;Blomberg, 1977;Klein, 1979;Lemert, 1981), followed by further evidence of net-widening associated with the "get tough" crime control strategies of the 1980s Hylton, 1982). By the late 1980s, concern was being expressed for the increasing use of intermediate punishment programs, especially as they were exacerbated by violations of strict sentence conditions that resulted in an eventual prison term anyway.…”

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Under Surveillance: An Empirical Test of the Effectiveness and Consequences of Electronic Monitoring

Padgett

Bales

Blomberg

2006

Criminology & Public Policy

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Research Summary: This study addresses the effectiveness of electronic monitoring (EM) for serious offenders supervised in the community. Using data on 75,661 offenders placed on home confinement in Florida from 1998 to 2002, we find that both radio‐frequency and global positioning system monitoring significantly reduce the likelihood of technical violations, reoffending, and absconding for this population of offenders. Additionally, we find that offenders placed on home confinement with EM are significantly more serious than those placed on home confinement without EM, which casts doubt on the anticipated net‐widening effect of this particular intermediate sanction. Policy Implications: Given the anticipated increase in the use of EM in the immediate future, policy makers will surely be faced with questions about its effectiveness in preventing or deterring further criminal activity among offenders in the community, as well as concerns about the intensity of surveillance it affords and a subsequent increase in the likelihood of a prison sentence or return to prison for technical violations. The results presented here suggest that such concerns may be overblown and that EM of offenders in the community may prove an effective public safety alternative to prison. Additional implications of this research include decision making regarding which offenders should be placed on EM, which type of monitoring device will be the most cost‐effective and efficient, and the potential for front‐end net‐widening if states adopt the practice of “Got ‘em?’ Use ‘em.’”

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Under Surveillance: An Empirical Test of the Effectiveness and Consequences of Electronic Monitoring

Padgett

Bales

Blomberg

2006

Criminology & Public Policy

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101

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“…Punishment and large, expensive prison systems may not be emphasized in such cultures, but neither is it considered desirable to consistently expand the &dquo;net of social control&dquo; by having large numbers of people in the community being supervised by parole or probation agents (Hylton, 1982). Without a clear cultural context for the decision, Individualistic Political Cultures exhibit a diverse pattern of prison use.…”

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Values, Culture, and Prison Policy

Cox

1984

The Prison Journal

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“…We also found that the program is having one major unanticipated consequence that some observers of community corrections believe is undesirable: It has &dquo;widened the net of social control&dquo; (Hylton, 1982;Austin and Krisberg, 1982). In this section, we discuss each of these issues.…”

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Measuring Degrees of Successful Implementation

1984

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The Oregon Community Corrections Act was passed in 1977, partly due to the need to relieve overcrowding in the state's prisons. Our research was undertaken to determine whether degrees of successful achievement of the goals of the Act are due to the way in which community corrections legislation is being implemented-and, specifically, to determine if the roles of street-level bureaucrats and modifications of the program during implementation are the keys to successful achievement of goals. In Oregon, we found that there is wide variation from county to county in the way the legislation is being implemented and the degree to which goals are being achieved. Even though not all specific statutory goals are being achieved, the general policy goals are being met. The more successful counties have reached a higher level of implementation in individual and county efforts than the least successful counties. In addition, the former are more likely to have a "fixer" active in getting the program established and making it work, street-level implementors who often have a higher level of commitment to the program, modifications to meet local needs, and a higher degree of support from elected officials and the community.

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Rhetoric and Reality: A Critical Appraisal of Community Correctional Programs

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Under Surveillance: An Empirical Test of the Effectiveness and Consequences of Electronic Monitoring

Under Surveillance: An Empirical Test of the Effectiveness and Consequences of Electronic Monitoring

Values, Culture, and Prison Policy

Measuring Degrees of Successful Implementation

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