Organization and Administration of Community-Based Corrections The state of Connecticut has many probation and community-based corrections services that help make sure the laws are followed. With a population of 3.5 million people, Connecticut’s crime rate is somewhat lower than the national average of other states (“U.S Census Bureau”; 2010). The lower crime rate comes from the hard work by every judicial agency in the state of Connecticut that helps make sure that justice is served
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Crime Causation and Diversion Paper Kendra V. Castro Maldonado CJA/374 Juvenile System and Process July 29, 2014 Prof. Victor Candelario- Vega Crime Causation and Diversion Paper As a prerequisite for the course, we were to analyze two different programs for juvenile offenders, this could be to prevent, to intervene or divert juveniles into committing any crime. On this paper, you will find two-intervention programs practiced in Puerto Rico, in a wish are focused to a certain type of crime
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diversionary mechanism to provide comprehensive treatment to offenders that require treatment for substance abuse and chemical dependency. The offenders must meet certain criteria to gain entrance into the program. The program is resident in nature to assist the offenders with re-socialization process. The counseling and intervention sessions are conducted by Licensed Chemical Dependency Counselors, (LCDC) which use cognitive behavioral therapies as a treatment tool. The SMART program is very structured
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Correction and Treatmen CJS/240 08/03/2014 University Of Phoenix Correction and Treatment Community treatment in juvenile justice refers to Probation, Intensive Supervision, House arrest, balanced probation, Restitution, and Residential programs (Siegel & Welsh, 2005). Residential programs provide the juvenile with a more secure, safe living environment that can be provided by probation services (Siegel & Welsh, 2005). But most residential programs are often divided into four
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Running head: CALIFORNIA PRISON COSTS 1 California Prison Health Care Costs CALIFORNIA PRISON COSTS Health care is defined as (CDC, 2013) the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention 2 of disease, illness, injury, and other physical and mental impairments in humans. Everyone has to deal with it in one way or another. Once a person becomes an adult they are responsible for their own health. Within the state of California, in looking at the stats from the Center for Disease and Control
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Key Statistics: • Only 14.5% of youth discharged were recommitted to custody of juvenile corrections or sentenced to adult prison within two years. (Compared to 36.7% for New Jersey) • Only 7% of youth discharged were incarcerated as an adult within two years. (Compared to 10% for Michigan) • Only 8.5% of youth discharged from Missouri youth corrections facilities were sentenced to adult prison within three years. (Compared to 23.4% in Arizona, 20.8% in Indiana, and 26% in Maryland) • Assaults
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skills development and faster attainment of treatment goals and objective (Chuang and Wells, 2010). For example, in regions where there were few trained personnel to help facilitate sexual offender re-entry back to the society, interagency collaboration allowed for the training of new officials who would later serve in various capacities. A good example of the above case was in Texas in 1990, where in order to address the shortage of trained community correction officers, the
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ACTG 493, Accounting Cases, Research and Analysis Group Case 1 Memorandum To: Professor Siyi Li From: Group 4 Date: July 5, 2016 Subject: eVade Pays Up (Deloitte Trueblood Case 14-07) I. Case Description and Key Facts eVade is an online retailer that fulfills its orders by shipping its products directly to customers across all 50 states in the U.S. eVade does not have a brick-and-mortar store presence in any state, but does operate distribution centers in various
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Development of Corrections Development of Corrections Men, women, and juveniles were all held in the same prisons in the United States prior to 1800. They were all treated the same and they were cramped and were expected to do work like laundry, cooking, and cleaning. The Indiana State Reformatory built a separate prison for women in 1873 and then Massachusetts and New York followed shortly after. The women prisons were built in a different design giving them a more spacious environment
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