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Clear, T. R., Hamilton, J. R., & Cadora, E. (2011). Community justice. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge.
Wogan, J. B. (2015, October). The Changing Relationship Between Ex-Criminals and Their Parole Officers. Retrieved April 1, 2016, from http://www.governing.com/topics/public-justice-safety/gov-probation-parole-states-community-supervision.html
Virlee, C. J. (2015). Offenders in the Community: Reshaping Sentencing and Supervision. Minnesota Law Review, 99(5), 1615-1620.
This wiki project addresses the issue how post-adjudication agencies should be designed to function in a system driven by Community Justice values, and the comparison of the conventional Criminal Justice approach to crime and criminality. The combined lectures, …show more content…
EPICS has become one of the ideal models for parole and probation throughout the United States. Over 80 states and counties since 2006 have implemented the EPICS program (Wogan, 2015). The main objective of EPICS is to educate offenders in how to approach life constructively, such as how to practice the overriding impulsive response to criminal conduct, by teaching skills that change behavior that will break an offender's cycle of criminal conduct, rather than threatening a client with jail. Teaching skills to change behavior is one of the two most significant methods that a community justice worker can use to support the progress of a client towards reintegration by combining strategies of treatment programs and problem-solving efforts in order to strengthen the client’s circumstances (Longmire, 2015). Sending clients back to jail simply creates financial implications such court fees, legal cost, and fines, as well as collateral consequences, such as the loss of voting rights, employment and housing. This is what EPICS, is changing in the current community supervision model. The undermining of the very goal of reintegrating offenders into the community, and preventing offenders from fully participating in society? Perhaps even compromising public safety, and perpetuating mass incarceration rates (Virlee, 2015). This is where we see the integration of traditional correctional thinking into the community justice framework, where the correctional worker becomes involved with the offender’s interpersonal networks, the probation officer tries to strengthen new network ties, such as new friends, which are an important source of community support for the client’s integration (Clear et al.,
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Clear, T. R., Hamilton, J. R., & Cadora, E. (2011). Community justice. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge.
Wogan, J. B. (2015, October). The Changing Relationship Between Ex-Criminals and Their Parole Officers. Retrieved April 1, 2016, from http://www.governing.com/topics/public-justice-safety/gov-probation-parole-states-community-supervision.html
Virlee, C. J. (2015). Offenders in the Community: Reshaping Sentencing and Supervision. Minnesota Law Review, 99(5), 1615-1620.
This wiki project addresses the issue how post-adjudication agencies should be designed to function in a system driven by Community Justice values, and the comparison of the conventional Criminal Justice approach to crime and criminality. The combined lectures, …show more content…
EPICS has become one of the ideal models for parole and probation throughout the United States. Over 80 states and counties since 2006 have implemented the EPICS program (Wogan, 2015). The main objective of EPICS is to educate offenders in how to approach life constructively, such as how to practice the overriding impulsive response to criminal conduct, by teaching skills that change behavior that will break an offender's cycle of criminal conduct, rather than threatening a client with jail. Teaching skills to change behavior is one of the two most significant methods that a community justice worker can use to support the progress of a client towards reintegration by combining strategies of treatment programs and problem-solving efforts in order to strengthen the client’s circumstances (Longmire, 2015). Sending clients back to jail simply creates financial implications such court fees, legal cost, and fines, as well as collateral consequences, such as the loss of voting rights, employment and housing. This is what EPICS, is changing in the current community supervision model. The undermining of the very goal of reintegrating offenders into the community, and preventing offenders from fully participating in society? Perhaps even compromising public safety, and perpetuating mass incarceration rates (Virlee, 2015). This is where we see the integration of traditional correctional thinking into the community justice framework, where the correctional worker becomes involved with the offender’s interpersonal networks, the probation officer tries to strengthen new network ties, such as new friends, which are an important source of community support for the client’s integration (Clear et al.,