classification and risk assessment
type: Concept
broader: community corrections

community corrections
type: Concept
broader: sentencing and incarceration
broader: crime and deviance
broader: corrections (penology)
definition: Community corrections refers to the supervised handling of juvenile and adult criminal offenders, convicted or facing possible conviction, outside of traditional penal institutions. It includes a wide range of programs intermediate between incarceration and outright release, such as probation, parole, pretrial release, and house arrest. [Source: Encyclopedia of Social Problems; Community Corrections]
narrower: classification and risk assessment
narrower: diversion and probation
narrower: theory and treatment in the community
narrower: history, development, and definitions
narrower: parole
narrower: intermediate sanctions

concepts
type: Collection
type: ConceptGroup
member: community corrections

corrections (penology)
type: Concept
narrower: community corrections

crime and deviance
type: Concept
narrower: community corrections

diversion and probation
type: Concept
broader: community corrections

history, development, and definitions
type: Concept
broader: community corrections

intermediate sanctions
type: Concept
broader: community corrections

parole
type: Concept
broader: community corrections

sentencing and incarceration
type: Concept
narrower: community corrections

theory and treatment in the community
type: Concept
broader: community corrections