Reference no: EM133355002
Questions
1. What is the difference between local detention centers/jails and State correctional facilities?
2. Which of Cesare Beccaria's ideas of punishment are reflected in current conceptions of corrections?
3. What steps could be taken to change prisons from "housing" inmates to rehabilitating them?
4. What is the Writ of Habeas Corpus that is, what is its purpose?
5. What access to legal services do inmates have within the prison?
6. What constitutional rights do inmates have?
7. What are the goals of community corrections?
8. What is the difference between suspended sentences and conditional release?
9. What is the effectiveness of probation?
10. What is your view of community-based corrections?
11. Do you feel programs like shock probation (a brief incarceration followed by suspension of sentence and probation) are effective?