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social problems encyc
crime and deviance
community corrections
history, development, and definitions
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psychology and law
sentencing and incarceration
community corrections
history, development, and definitions
Preferred term
Community Corrections Acts
Definition(s)
- Beginning in the 1970s, many state governments in the United States, hoping to decrease reliance on state institutions, passed community corrections acts. The intent was to utilize more local and community correctional programs as alternatives to increasingly overcrowded state institutions. [Source: Encyclopedia of Community Corrections; Community Corrections Acts]
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http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/N9J-PQJVV708-3
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