Assignment:
Community Corrections Analysis
Community Corrections may be a new term, but is an old concept. Community corrections is more than 100 years old in the United States.
Write a 1,100 word to 1,400 word paper to evaluate the development, operation, and purpose of community corrections (probation and parole) and the legal, jurisdictional, and functional differences between these.
Within the evaluation, examine the relationship between federal, state, and local community corrections systems and federal, state, and local institutional corrections systems, and their independent jurisdictions.
Include examination of the effects of truth-in-sentencing law on parole and institutional corrections population.
Include at least four peer reviewed or professional research sources.
Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines.