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Comparative Paradigm for Analyzing International Community Corrections Program

NCJ Number
92207
Journal
International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology Volume: 27 Issue: 2 Dated: (1983) Pages: 125-142
Author(s)
J M Caruso
Date Published
1983
Length
18 pages
Annotation
This article provides a comparative model for evaluating international community corrections programs.
Abstract
The approach seeks to expand culturally narrow-minded thinking regarding community corrections, to isolate relevant universal and national phenomena affecting offender treatment, and to provide a framework for finding solutions of universal and relative problems in social behavior. These goals are accomplished in a three-dimensional comparative study of the larger society (differentiation mode), host community (implementation mode), and community correctional program (impact mode) under scrutiny. The resulting information can be used to reveal international problems in corrections, to create universal typologies (offenders, program models, client services, etc.), to isolate and understand specific national problems in rehabilitation, and to promote workable solutions to the problem of crime and its correction. Figures and 32 references are supplied. (Author summary modified)