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THE SOCIAL ECOLOGY OF COMMUNITY CORRECTIONS—UNDERSTANDING THE LINK BETWEEN INDIVIDUAL AND COMMUNITY CHANGE
Author(s) -
BYRNE JAMES M.
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
criminology and public policy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.6
H-Index - 33
eISSN - 1745-9133
pISSN - 1538-6473
DOI - 10.1111/j.1745-9133.2008.00507.x
Subject(s) - citation , sociology , criminal justice , economic justice , library science , criminology , law , political science , computer science
Almost 20 years ago, I authored an article in Crime and Delinquency, “Reintegrating the concept of community into community-based corrections” (Byrne, 1989), in which I argued that police and community corrections agencies were undergoing an unprecedented—and controversial— role reversal: Police departments were reinventing themselves as community problem solvers by incorporating the roles and responsibilities of traditional probation and parole officers into community policing initiatives; at the same time, community corrections agencies were moving in the opposite direction by incorporating the surveillance and control activities traditionally associated with police. What can we now say about the impact of this role redefinition on the performance of both the police and community corrections agencies?