Featuring front-line practitioner's insights based on the author's extensive experience as a senior New York parole officer, this book explores the complex, "real" world of adult and juvenile probation, institutions, and parole. It focuses on the cutting-edge of both practice. Relates front-line experiences of juvenile and adult probation and parole agencies throughout the country. Discusses some of the newest, often controversial, concepts that have had an impact on both the theory and practice of probation and parole--community-based corrections, justice model, determinate sentencing, graduated sanctions, intermediate punishments, blended sentences, restorative justice, mandatory sentences, sanctioning flexibility, law enforcement role of probation/parole officers, the supervision of drug and alcohol abuse offenders and sex offenders. For anyone who interested in the state-of-the-art in the theory and practice of probation and

Probation and Parole: Theory and Practice

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Probation and Parole: Theory and Practice