Community corrections are alternative programs that juveniles may be placed in outside of the juvenile institutions settings. These programs include probation, restitution, home confinement/electronic monitoring, Foster/Group homes, halfway houses and institutional corrections. According to the text research has shown the most successful community correction alternative is in treatment foster care facilities because these facility is trained foster parents to make the individual needs of the juveniles that will be placed in their facilities. However, the least successful of the community corrections alternatives are group homes. The placement in a group home is only temporary and they give the juvenile very little time to make corrections
