The training course was designed to examine and evaluate the existing systems and practices of community-based corrections in the Far East and to search for appropriate solutions to problems commonly confronted. Public officials in attendance represented the following 15 countries: Bangladesh, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Iraq, the Republic of Korea, Malaysia, Nepal, Pakistan, the Philippines, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Tonga, and Japan. Themes discussed concerned the available types of community-based corrections, such as pretrial diversion; suspension of prosecution, execution, imprisonment; unconditional and conditional discharge; probation, community service order, work and study release, furloughs, open prisons, halfway houses, remission, parole, and aftercare. Appropriate criteria for the selection of offenders for community-based treatment measures were also discussed. Participants considered the variations in treatment programs and methods of probationary and parole supervision as well as rules, conditions, and revocation procedure of community-based treatment programs. Different arrangements for the coordination of agencies and organizations involved in community-based corrections were also described. Countries reported on the use of volunteers and other social resources as well as on the mobilization of general citizens' cooperation in the resocialization of offenders. A final area of concern was the recruitment and training of the staff responsible for community-based corrections. The titles of the papers prepared by the participants for comparative study are listed.