For undergraduate courses in community corrections and criminal justice programs. This work provides relevant general information, key issues, and experiences of practitioners, researchers and community corrections to help guide a reader through the complex world of community corrections. It was written to engage students and to aid them to better understand community corrections and life choices from a realistic or an applied perspective rather than a theoretical perspective.

Preface.
1. Community Corrections: An Overview.
2. Approaches inCommunity Corrections.
3. Entry Process, Sentence Strategies, and Intermediate Sanctions.
4. Classification.
5. Supervision Strategies.
6. Pretrial Release and Diversion.
7. Probation: Nature, History and Statistics.
8. Process of Probation and the Role of Probation Officers.
9. Parole: Nature, History and Statistics.
10. Parole: Process, Revocation, and Rights.
11. Residential Intermediate Sanctions.
12. Juveniles: The Dependency Era.
13. Juveniles: The Delinquency Era.
14. Women, Elderly, and the Disabled.
15. Mentally Ill and Sex Offenders.