Research-based, comprehensive, and up-to-date, COMMUNITY-BASED CORRECTIONS, 12th Edition provides an excellent introduction to the theory, evidence-based practices, and latest research in community-based corrections. Students learn about the supervision techniques and treatment programs that constitute alternatives to incarceration -- including probation, parole, electronic monitoring, problem-solving courts, residential facilities, therapeutic communities, restitution, fines, and other options. Content on theories related to community correctional goals includes discussion of reintegration; specific deterrence; rehabilitation through risk, needs, and responsivity; and the participation process model. Available with MindTap®, the digital learning solution that powers students' mastery of key concepts while engaging them with video cases, career scenarios, visual summaries, and more.

Part I: OVERVIEW AND EVOLUTION OF COMMUNITY CORRECTIONS.
1. An Overview of Community Corrections: Goals and Evidence-Based Practices.
2. How Probation Developed: Chronicling Its Past and Present.
3. History of Parole and Mandatory Release.
Part II: EVIDENCE-BASED COMMUNITY CORRECTIONAL SUPERVISION AND TREATMENT.
4. Pretrial Supervision, Sentencing, and Presentence Investigation Report.
5. Case Management Using Risk/Needs/Responsivity.
6. Supervision and Treatment for Offenders with Special Needs.
7. Community Supervision Modification and Revocation.
Part III: ENHANCEMENTS AND GRADUATED SANCTIONS.
8. Residential Community Supervision Programs.
9. Nonresidential Graduated Sanctions.
10. Economic and Restorative Justice Reparations.
Part IV: SPECIAL ISSUES IN COMMUNITY CORRECTIONS.
11. Prisoner Reentry: Collateral Consequences, Parole, and Mandatory Release.
12. Career Pathways in Community Corrections.
13. Juvenile Justice, Probation, and Parole.
14. Bringing It All Together: Practical Solutions for Community-Based Corrections.

Research-based, comprehensive, and up-to-date, COMMUNITY-BASED CORRECTIONS, 12th Edition provides an excellent introduction to the theory, evidence-based practices, and latest research in community-based corrections. Students learn about the supervision techniques and treatment programs that constitute alternatives to incarceration -- including probation, parole, electronic monitoring, problem-solving courts, residential facilities, therapeutic communities, restitution, fines, and other options. Content on theories related to community correctional goals includes discussion of reintegration; specific deterrence; rehabilitation through risk, needs, and responsivity; and the participation process model. Available with MindTap®, the digital learning solution that powers students' mastery of key concepts while engaging them with video cases, career scenarios, visual summaries, and more. Six new chapter-opening stories provide real-life connections to chapter topics. For example, as immigration issues come to the forefront of the Trump Presidency, a new story illuminates the role of the corrections system in the lives of undocumented immigrants who come across the border seeking political asylum from their home country. A new section has been added on supervising undocumented offenders in the community. A brand new sentencing philosophy map allows students to identify states with indeterminate sentencing structures and states with primarily determinate sentencing structures. In addition, structured and unstructured sentencing guidelines are differentiated to better explain the fact that either form of these guidelines can be used in determinate and indeterminate sentencing states. Finally, discussion of the federal sentencing guidelines has been revised to incorporate the changes for drug offenses in 2016. Revised topics include: new findings from other sites that have used Project HOPE to respond swiftly to drug use while on probation; the police practice of issuing civil citations to juveniles in lieu of sending them to court; prison population reduction and realignment activities in California, including the ramifications of prison crowding on community corrections; supervising undocumented offenders in the community; and clearer discussion on when probation/parole officers and police officers may conduct warrantless searches of offenders during supervision. Updated or revised coverage is provided on evaluations of community treatment for drug offenders, community options for military veteran offenders with mental illness, recidivism of federal sex offenders under supervised release, the effect of the new federal sentencing changes, the increased use of parole, and the role of the President in criminal justice system reform. Learning by Doing: Students apply what they learn to real-world scenarios via case studies at the end of every chapter, and/or lengthier assignments that simulate supervising a person on community supervision. These exercises (and the real-world case studies in MindTap) can be used in class discussions or as a basis for writing assignments. Assignments include writing a Presentence Investigation Report based on case information and/or a sample PSI (Ch. 4); interviewing protocol for clients (Ch. 5); assessing risk and needs using objective tools (Ch. 5); and decision making while supervising a probationer or parolee (Ch. 7). Evidence-Based Learning: This text contains essential evidence-based practice based on methodologically rigorous research that helps readers develop informed viewpoints and feel confident about which programs should be expanded and which should be replaced in community corrections. Learning from Multiple Perspectives: The author is a former community corrections practitioner and an expert in conducting correctional research and evaluations. "Field Notes" boxes spotlight other correctional practitioners who write about a supervision or treatment issue from their own perspective. Among the topics addressed are a typical day of probation supervision, dealing with parole violators and absconders, and the knowledge/skills/abilities required to become a supervision officer. Solution Learning: The book's last chapter provides a summary of concrete solutions -- rehabilitation, community supervision, and restorative -- that can be utilized to help meet correctional goals and aid in reentry.