Interpret the changes in the last decade or so in the number of adults in community-based and incarceration-based corrections in the United States.
What will be an ideal response?
Table 1.2 shows the latest government statistics regarding the number of people currently on some form of correctional supervision. As of December 31, 2006, there were 4.2 million offenders on probation, and nearly 800,000 on parole, which is considerably more than the 2.3 million offenders incarcerated in jail and prison. Over the last decade, there was an average increase of 2.4% of prisoners and 1.7% of those on community supervision each year in the corrections system (Bonczar, 2008; Glaze & Bonczar, 2008).There are considerably more male and female offenders under community supervision than those incarcerated in jail and prison. The correctional system carries out the order of the courts, but the variance in the rate per 100,000 people is derived from a number of factors that include the nature of each state's sentencing laws, police discretion in responding to criminal behavior, the rate of release from prison, and each agency's probation and parole violation policy.
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