Discuss and explain house arrest. How is it used within community corrections?

What will be an ideal response?


House arrest is a program used by probation and parole agencies that require offenders to remain in their homes at all times except for approved periods, such as travel to work or school, and occasionally for other approved destinations. As a system of social control, house arrest is typically used primarily as an initial phase of intensive probation or parole supervision, but can also be used as an alternative to pretrial detention or a jail sentence. As is the case with so many other criminal justice practices, house arrest was designed primarily to reduce financial costs to the state by reducing institutional confinement. House arrest did not initially gain widespread acceptance in the criminal justice community because there was no way of assuring offender compliance with the order short of having officers constantly monitoring the residence.

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