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This is a 7 page paper which examines the need and criteria for community correction and prevention programs.
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concerned with prison construction than with the development and promotion of community corrections in the course of crime prevention. These criminal justice practitioners and intellectuals feel that the government
should focus on existing community correction programs that have been effective in reducing the continued, habitual or compulsive commission of law violations. It is also argued that the general
public is thought to prefer rehabilitation rather than incarceration for some offenders such as drug users. Politically popular crime prevention solutions are usually generated in places like Washington, D.C. or
individual state capitals. However, spending additional money on prison construction at the expense of community correction prevention programs is not an effective way of preventing repetitive crimes. Constructing
more prisons is a reactive approach to the problem of crime in this country. What is more effective and far more efficient is the proactive approach of focusing on
crime prevention and community programs. BACKGROUND In 1994, the United States Congress passed a crime bill which was targeted at the control and prevention of crime through out the United
States (Petersilia, 1995). Titled the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act, the bill set aside $22 billion to add on to existing prisons, promote longer sentences, employ more police
officers and to a much lesser extent fund prevention programs ( Petersilia, 1995). In the next year, 1995, the bill was revised and amended resulting in any monies which
were designated for prevention programs to be completely eliminated (Petersilia, 1995). All of the money was now targeted for prison construction and expansion of law enforcement (Petersilia, 1995). This
approach to crime prevention has some major flaws. First, it does not prevent young people from committing crimes and from continuing with live of crime and secondly, it does
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