Concept information
Preferred term
corrections
Definition
- Corrections is typically considered the third major component of the criminal justice system (with law enforcement and courts being the first and second, respectively). Corrections are those sentencing options for someone who has been convicted of a crime and can include financial penalties and reimbursement (fines and restitution), community/public service hours, community-based sanctions (probation, parole, or house arrest), intermediate sanctions (work-release and restitution centers, boot camp programs), institutional corrections (jails and prisons), and capital punishment (the death penalty). [Source: The Social History of Crime and Punishment in America: An Encylopedia; Corrections]
Broader concept
Narrower concepts
- adult boot camps
- Alcatraz
- Attica
- Attica prison revolt
- Auburn Correctional Facility
- boot camps
- chain gangs
- correctional officers
- day release
- death row
- death row inmates
- Devil's Island
- disproportionate incarceration
- early release programs
- Eastern State Penitentiary
- elderly prisoners
- electronic monitoring
- Elmira Reformatory
- faith-based initiatives and prisons
- felon disenfranchisement
- furlough programs
- halfway houses
- infectious diseases and prisoners
- innocence project
- intermediate sanctions
- international imprisonments
- Joliet Correctional Center
- judicial ghetto
- juvenile boot camps
- Leavenworth Federal Penitentiary
- new generation jails
- parole
- penal colonies
- political prisoners
- preventive detention
- prison abolition
- prison abolitionism
- prisoner reentry
- prisoners' rights
- prison gangs
- prison literature
- prison overcrowding
- prison reform
- prison riots
- prison systems
- prison violence
- private prisons
- race and corrections
- recidivism
- religion in prison
- San Quentin
- sex offender treatment
- shelters
- shock incarceration
- Sing Sing Correctional Facility
- supermax prisons
- Tucker State Farm
- women prisoners
- work release
- wrongful convictions
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URI
https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/corrections
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