Chapter 15

Chapter 15- Justice and Punishment in the Twenty-first Century
*New ways of administering justice and punishment
1. Technocorrections- the use of technology to monitor offenders and to prevent future crimes.
2. Risk-based treatment- classifying and evaluating offenders based on their characteristics, crimes, and backgrounds to determine the likelihood of reoffending.
3. Early-life Interventions; "The high/scope perry preschool project"- a developmental program emphasizing intellectual and social development through active learning designed for children of low socioeconomic statues and low IQ who are at high risk for failure in school.
4. Virtual prison- an offender monitoring system in which the offender wears an ankle bracelet that cannot be tampered with or defeated effectively, and that can be monitored via GPS.
* How can offenders with mental health and drug problems be handled in the Criminal Justice System?
5. Mental health courts are specialized courts that focus on treatment and rehabilitation of mentally ill offenders who land in the criminal justice system.
6. Women offenders have different problems in different proportions than men. such as more than half have been sexually abused and how two-thirds of women in prison have minor children.
7. The balance between punishment and public safety can be difficult. Punishment is needed to express the society's disapproval of the law violation; and corrective treatment is required to prevent repeated offenses.
*The future of corrections
8. Offender accountability- an approach to illegal behavior that makes offenders aware of the damage, loss, or injury they cause and their responsibility for it.
9. Punishment and control by distance- a corrections approach that includes electronic monitoring, probation kiosks, and camera satellite surveillance to partially restrict offenders freedom and to deprive them of some portion of their liberty.
10. Correction as prevention. Corrections can be more effective when greater attention is paid to aspects leading to crime before a person violates the law.