Community Supervision AND Probation
TOPIC: Community Supervision AND Probation QUESTION 1. (150 WORDS) • Offense ＝ Assault; Sentence ＝ Fine Fines are one of the monetary sanctions mentioned in the textbook (p. 81), but fines in U.S. jurisdictions are, many Europeans would argue, being used in a remarkably unimaginative way for a capitalistic country. Read about Day Fines in the sources below (and others you might find) and discuss the advantages, disadvantages, prospects, and challenges of increased use of day fines in U.S. jurisdictions for both misdemeanor and felony sentences. o Reichel, Philip L. (2018). Comparative Criminal Justice Systems: A Topical Approach (7th ed.). “Financial penalties” (pp. 223-224). New York: Pearson. o Subramanian, R., & Shames, A. (2015). Sentencing and prison practices in Germany and the Netherlands: Implications for the United States. Vera Institute of Justice. o Zedlewski, Edwin W. 2010. ″Alternatives to custodial supervision: The day fine.″ In NCJ 210296. [unique_solution]Washington, DC: Bureau of Justice Statistics. • QUESTION 2.(150 WORDS) Need for change overrides need for prison The philosophy behind community corrections assumes that most offenders have made poor decisions along the way, but their need to retain responsibility and/or change overrides their threat to public safety—and therefore incarceration is in neither the offender’s nor society’s best interest. What are the weak points of this assumption? Is community corrections still a good idea even if the assumption is wrong? READING o Reichel, Philip L. (2018). Comparative Criminal Justice Systems: A Topical Approach (7th ed.). “Financial penalties” (pp. 223-224). New York: Pearson. *And others.