Probation in America: armed, private and unaffordable?

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Teague, Michael 2011. Probation in America: armed, private and unaffordable? Probation Journal. https://doi.org/10.1177/0264550511421518
AuthorsTeague, Michael
Abstract

While America is renowned for its enormous prison industrial complex, less academic attention has been paid to the state of probation intervention. The probation population has long been rising more swiftly than the prison population, and one in 45 adults in the USA is now subject to community upervision. This article explores the development of American probation and considers a series of key contextual issues, including the fragmented nature of the US probation system and the philosophies which underpin it, supervision fees, privatization, and the arming of probation officers, in order to illuminate how the community corrections system functions. The Justice Reinvestment initiative is also considered, and the impact of budgetary pressures upon probation is taken into account.

KeywordsAmerica; Community corrections; Privatization; Firearms; Fees
Year2011
JournalProbation Journal
PublisherSage
ISSN0264-5505
1741-3079
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)https://doi.org/10.1177/0264550511421518
Web address (URL)hdl:10545/608663
Publication dates2011
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