An Examination of Community Corrections Centers and Electronic Monitoring as Pre-parole Alternatives to Incarceration

[摘要] Although the public wants government to get tough on crime, they also are reluctant to put more tax dollars toward buliding more prisons. Reducing the number of criminals on the street seems desirable, yet the cost of incarcerating all these offenders has been weighed against the effectiveness of incarceration.

The purpose of this paper will be to compare two alternatives to incarceration -- community correction centers and electronic monitoring. The two programs will be examined as pre-parole options in which convicted felons who have spent some time in prison are supervised in the community prior to parole.

The costs of the two programs will be compared and the literature will be reviewed for research on the effectiveness of these programs. The results of this paper will conclude that preliminary evidence suggests that electronic monitoring is a more cost-effective program than community correction centers but that further research is needed.

[发布机构] University of Michigan

[效力级别] electronic monitoring

[关键词] community correction center;electronic monitoring;convicted felons;incarceration alternative;College of Arts and Sciences: Public Administration