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NCJ 187773
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What Future for "Public Safety" and "Restorative Justice" in Community Corrections?- Research in Brief
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Series:
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NIJ Research in Brief
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Author(s):
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Michael E. Smith
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Date Published:
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06/2001 |
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Page Count:
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8 |
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Contract Number:
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97-MUMU-K006 |
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Sale Source:
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National Institute of Justice/NCJRS
Box 6000
Rockville, MD 20849
United States
NCJRS Photocopy Services
Box 6000
Rockville, MD 20849-6000
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Agency Summary:
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Agency Summary |
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Language:
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English |
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Country:
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United States |
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This paper assesses the relative merits of "public safety" and
"restorative justice" paradigms, so as to assess their future in
community corrections as strategic objectives for probation and
parole. |
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Abstract:
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As an objective for community corrections, "public safety" is
best conceived as "the condition of a place, at times when people
in that place are justified in feeling free of threat to their
persons and property." This view of public safety directly
challenges offender-focused probation and parole case management, emphasizing instead the need for unofficial, naturally occurring guardians of people and places. Restorative justice rejects the criminal law's focus on culpability and retribution and casts punitive responses to criminal conduct as aggravators of the harm already done. Under this new paradigm, the purpose of justice is to restore the victim and the victim's intimates (who suffer the harm), the community (whose fabric is torn by the crime), and the offender (who will remain part of that community and represents a continuing threat to it if unrestored). The implementation of the
public safety and restorative justice paradigms in community
corrections is likely to be stronger to the extent that the two
paradigms can be merged. They have enough in common to make this
possible. Although many community corrections agencies are
exploring one or both of these strategic ideas in practice, none
has the operational capacity to pursue the ideas effectively.
This is in part because their staffs lack many of the necessary
skills and have been deployed for years in ways incompatible with
public safety purposes or restorative justice practices. 13 notes |
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Main Term(s):
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Corrections policies |
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Index Term(s):
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Probation or parole services ; Probation or parole agencies ; Probation ; Community based corrections (adult) |
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Note:
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Sentencing and Corrections, June 2001, No. 11 |
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