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Author:   Leanne Alarid (University of Texas - El Paso)
Publisher:   Cengage Learning, Inc
Imprint:   Wadsworth Publishing Co Inc
Edition:   12th edition
Dimensions:   Width: 25.00cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 25.40cm
Weight:   0.794kg
ISBN:  

9781337687362

ISBN 10:   1337687367
Pages:   416
Publication Date:   01 January 2018
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Part I: OVERVIEW AND EVOLUTION OF COMMUNITY CORRECTIONS. 1. An Overview of Community Corrections: Goals and Evidence-Based Practices. 2. How Probation Developed: Chronicling Its Past and Present. 3. History of Parole and Mandatory Release. Part II: EVIDENCE-BASED COMMUNITY CORRECTIONAL SUPERVISION AND TREATMENT. 4. Pretrial Supervision, Sentencing, and Presentence Investigation Report. 5. Case Management Using Risk/Needs/Responsivity. 6. Supervision and Treatment for Offenders with Special Needs. 7. Community Supervision Modification and Revocation. Part III: ENHANCEMENTS AND GRADUATED SANCTIONS. 8. Residential Community Supervision Programs. 9. Nonresidential Graduated Sanctions. 10. Economic and Restorative Justice Reparations. Part IV: SPECIAL ISSUES IN COMMUNITY CORRECTIONS. 11. Prisoner Reentry: Collateral Consequences, Parole, and Mandatory Release. 12. Career Pathways in Community Corrections. 13. Juvenile Justice, Probation, and Parole. 14. Bringing It All Together: Practical Solutions for Community-Based Corrections.

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Leanne Fiftal Alarid is Professor and Chair of the Department of Criminal Justice at the University of Texas at El Paso. She double majored in Psychology and Sociology with a B.A. from the University of Northern Colorado. She worked in Denver as a counselor in a girls group home and then as a case manager at an adult halfway house before returning to school to earn an M.A. and Ph.D. in Criminal Justice from Sam Houston State University. She was on the faculty at the University of Missouri–Kansas City from 1996–2006, and at the University of Texas at San Antonio from 2006–2013. Her research areas are post-conviction offender behavior, mental illness and justice-involved offenders, and correctional policy. She has also partnered with a number of criminal justice agencies as a researcher, consultant, and program evaluator. Dr. Alarid has authored more than 60 journal articles and book chapters, and authored or edited eight books. She received the Fellow Award by the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences in 2011 for outstanding contributions to criminal justice education and service.

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