In the late 1950’s and throughout the 1960’s sentencing for misdemeanor or non-violent felonies where at the hands of the judges. This allowed a certain amount of controlled flexibility in how they sentenced. They came up with some very constructive ways of dealing with what they perceived as a possible and potential long term problem individual. The sentencing sometimes took on a geopolitical form by offering the individual to be sentenced, the potential problem child, to a two-year stint in the military or jail ("Military or Jail," 07/23/2015). This solved the problem at the moment, but if the military didn’t straighten him out, when he came of the military you had a highly trained individual with a chip on his shoulder.
In the 1970’s the …show more content…
Methods such as Electronic monitoring designed for non-violent felonies and misdemeanor domestic situations, Day reporting, in which subjects are placed on work release status and receive one day off their sentence for every eight hours worked, and Alcohol monitoring is attached to the offender’s ankle monitoring the subject on probation where alcohol was a contributing factor to the crime committed (Alternative sentencing and Pretrial Services. (2014). Another alternative sentencing program that seems to be developing and meeting with some success is the “Restorative Justice program”. This program enables the interaction between
the individual convicted of the crime, the victim and community members through programs setup to provide restitution to the victim and the community that were damaged by the individual convicted. The program is centered around the aspect that the convicted individual show genuine remorse through actions that are directed to the premise of making the victim whole ("Restorative Justice," 2016). The trend of the courts, and the criminal justice system is moving toward an alternative system of sentencing, that in my opinion has a chance to make a change and reduce the rate of recidivism and level of incarceration across the country, but only time will
In the 1970’s the …show more content…
Methods such as Electronic monitoring designed for non-violent felonies and misdemeanor domestic situations, Day reporting, in which subjects are placed on work release status and receive one day off their sentence for every eight hours worked, and Alcohol monitoring is attached to the offender’s ankle monitoring the subject on probation where alcohol was a contributing factor to the crime committed (Alternative sentencing and Pretrial Services. (2014). Another alternative sentencing program that seems to be developing and meeting with some success is the “Restorative Justice program”. This program enables the interaction between
the individual convicted of the crime, the victim and community members through programs setup to provide restitution to the victim and the community that were damaged by the individual convicted. The program is centered around the aspect that the convicted individual show genuine remorse through actions that are directed to the premise of making the victim whole ("Restorative Justice," 2016). The trend of the courts, and the criminal justice system is moving toward an alternative system of sentencing, that in my opinion has a chance to make a change and reduce the rate of recidivism and level of incarceration across the country, but only time will