1st Edition
The Routledge Handbook on Global Community Corrections
The Routledge Handbook on Global Community Corrections assesses and analyzes the status of community corrections systems around the world, highlighting inter-regional and intra-regional variations in their design, implementation, and impact on policy and practice. Covering both probation and parole, this handbook brings together leading international experts to examine the myriad of systems developed under the broad heading of community corrections to manage community corrections populations at the pre-adjudication, adjudication, and post-release stages. Chapters are designed to consider the following questions:
• How many offenders are placed in community corrections systems around the globe?
• What are the key design features of these community corrections systems?
• What do we know about the effectiveness of community corrections within and across global regions?
This is an essential reference text for all those engaged with community corrections, probation, and post-release policy in criminal justice.
List of Tables
List of Figures
List of Contributors
Introduction
SECTION 1: Country-Level Profiles of Community Corrections Systems 11
PART 1: Community Corrections Systems in Africa
1 Community Corrections in South Africa
Lincoln G. Fitz, Francois C.M. Louw, and Kimberly R. Kras
2 Community Corrections in Kenya: A Developmental and Practice Account
Clement Okecha
PART 2: Community Corrections Systems in Asia
3 Community Corrections in China: Past Development, Current Practices, and Future Challenges
Spencer D. Li, Lu Xie, and Hui Shen
4 Probation: A Singular Alternative to Incarceration, Reformation, and Community Corrections in India
Shivangi Shikhar and Ntasha Bhardwaj
5 Community Corrections in Japan: An Illustration of the Hogoshi System
Imafuku Shoji and Minoura Satoshi
6 The Past, Present, and the Future of Community Corrections in South Korea: Focusing on Probation
Claire Seungeun Lee
PART 3: Community Corrections Systems in Europe
7 Community Corrections in England and Wales
Lol Burke and Gwen Robinson
8 Community Corrections in Finland
Pia Andersson
9 Community Corrections in France
Martine Herzog-Evans
10 Probation Supervision in the Netherlands
Miranda Boone, Jacqueline Bosker, and Jennifer Doekhie
11 From Nothing to Everything: The Dramatic Rise of Community Corrections in Romania
Ioan Durnescu, Iuliana Carbunaru, and Gabriel Oancea
12 Community Corrections in Spain
Esther Montero Pérez de Tudela
13 Community Corrections in Türkiye
Adonis Çiğdem Erkunt Kanoğlu and Deniz Özyörük
PART 4: Community Corrections in the Middle East
14 Community Corrections in Israel—A Humanistic Approach
Ronit Peled-Laskov and Lior Gideon
PART 5: Community Corrections Systems in North America
15 Community Corrections in Canada
Guy Bourgon
16 Probation and Parole in California: An Experiment in Community Corrections Reform
Kimberly R. Kras and Carina F. Rodrigues
17 Georgia Department of Community Supervision (US)
Nicholas K. Powell and Tonya Van Deinse
18 Community Supervision in Florida
Jill Viglione and Nicholas Paul
19 Community Corrections in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, U.S.A.
Ronald P. Corbett, Jr., with Pratikshya Bohra-Mishra (Parole), Brian W. Mirasolo (Probation), and Edward J. Dolan (Probation)
20 Community Corrections in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
Don Hummer
PART 6: Community Corrections in South America
21 Alternatives to Incarceration in Colombia
Daniela Barberi and Lina M. Marmolejo
22 Legal Reforms, Non-Custodial Sanctions, and Parole in Chile
Sebastián Galleguillos, Deborah Koetzle, and Jeff Mellow
PART 7: Community Corrections in Oceania
23 Community Corrections in Australia
Phillipa Evans, Charlene Pereira, Dominic van Gestel, and Chris Trotter
24 Probation/Parole Supervision in Aotearoa New Zealand
Devon L. L. Polaschek and Heather A. Mackie
SECTION 2: Country-Level Comparative Research on Community Corrections
25 Estimating the Size, Scope, and Effectiveness of the Global Community Corrections System: A Comparative Analysis
James M. Byrne, Don Hummer, and Sabrina Rapisarda
26 The Global Structure of Community Corrections
Ioan Durnescu
27 International Perspective on Treatment as Part of Probation/Parole
Ronit Peled-Laskov and Faye S. Taxman
28 Fostering Compliance with the Conditions of Community Supervision: A Global Review of Conditions, Monitoring, Support, and Response Strategies
Faye S. Taxman
29 A World View of Technology Use in Community Corrections: The Role of Electronic Monitoring
April Pattavina and Benjamin J. Mackey
30 Nongovernmental Entities in International Community Corrections Systems: Where the State, Civil Society, and Private Sector Meet
Benjamin J. Mackey
31 Grand Challenges: Reflections on the Future of Community Corrections
Faye S. Taxman, James M. Byrne, Ioan Durnescu, and Benjamin J. Mackey
Index
Biography
Ioan Durnescu is a Professor at the Faculty of Sociology and Social Work at the University of Bucharest, Romania.
James M. Byrne is a Professor Emeritus in the School of Criminology and Justice Studies at the University of Massachusetts Lowell, USA.
Benjamin J. Mackey is a Research Associate at the Center for Advancing Correctional Excellence and a doctoral student in the Department of Criminology, Law and Society at George Mason University, USA; and Co-Director of the Global Community Corrections Initiative.
Faye S. Taxman is a Distinguished University Professor at the Schar School of Policy and Government and Director of the Center for Advancing Correctional Excellence at George Mason University, USA.
"Even in developed nations, community corrections typically operates in the shadows, little understood by members of the public or even the wider criminal legal system. In this essential new resource, a global team of contributors brings light to the vastly different visions of community corrections that have emerged around the globe."
Shadd Maruna, Professor of Criminology, Queen's University Belfast
"What an ambitious and essential initiative! The Routledge Handbook on Global Community Corrections by Ioan Durnescu, James M. Byrne, Benjamin J. Mackey, and Faye S. Taxman meets a real need and brings an important contribution to improve the knowledge of corrections all over the world. The originality of this work lies in the fact that it considers the whole of the penal population, prison and probation, provides a structured view of 20 countries on 5 continents, and identifies common and fundamental questions that arise despite the great diversity of structures, cultures, organizations, etc., which are all part of the criminal justice system. The 10 challenges we all face are relevant and will certainly keep us focused in the future. This excellent work invites interested readers to think about social impact, good practices, ethical issues. This book offers a new insight about what could be expected to do things better and more appropriately than simply more."
Annie Devos, Vice-chair of the PC-CP, President of the CEP and DG of the Houses of Justice at the Wallonia Brussels, Belgium
