Community corrections in the twenty-first century faces three challenges: how to be an alternative to imprisonment, how to be a conduit for reducing recidivism, and how to do less harm to offenders and their families and communities. Community corrections will reduce imprisonment only if its use is viewed as a legitimate form of punishment and is incentivized, which involves subsidizing the use of community sanctions and making communities pay to imprison offenders (e.g., a cap-and-trade system). To reduce recidivism, it will be necessary to hold officials accountable for this outcome, to ensure that evidence-based supervision is practiced, to use technology to deliver treatment services, and to create information systems that can guide the development, monitoring, and evaluation of interventions. Doing less harm—avoiding iatrogenic effects—will require nonintervention with low-risk offenders, reducing the imposition of needless constraints on offenders (i.e., collateral consequences), and creating opportunities for offenders to be redeemed.

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重塑社区矫正

在二十一世纪，社区矫正面临三个挑战：如何成为替代监禁的方法，如何成为减少累犯的途径以及如何减轻对罪犯及其家人和社区的伤害。仅当社区矫正被视为一种合法的惩罚并受到鼓励时，社区矫正才会减少监禁，这包括补贴社区制裁的使用并让社区向被监禁的罪犯支付费用（例如限额交易制度）。为了减少累犯，有必要让官员对这一结果负责，确保实行循证监督，使用技术提供治疗服务，并建立可指导开发，监测和评估疾病的信息系统。干预。