NCJ Number
178524
Journal
Perspectives Volume: 23 Issue: 1 Dated: Winter 1999 Pages: 24-32
Date Published
1999
Length
9 pages
Annotation
This article describes a community corrections strategy that defines its functions by its relevance to local community life
Abstract
The idea of strengthening communities through investing in the quality of life of its members is a long-range strategy. It seeks to address crime by addressing the malaise that cultivates crime; it fights alienation and despair of the least vigorous citizens. The article discusses the emerging importance of place; the neighborhood meaning of justice; the socially moral nature of criminality; recovering community and the community justice tasks of parties to crime disputes; the tasks of the offender, the victim, the community, and justice officials; organizing at the neighborhood level; programming for community; citizens as policy makers; managing the serious offender; and the future for a Community Corrections of Place. Figure, references