CSOM Review Paper

Community justice broadly refers to different aspects of crime prevention and justice activities that include the quality of life as a goal for the community. Recent initiatives include community crime prevention, community policing, community defense, community prosecution, community courts, and restorative justice sanctioning systems. Community justice prioritizes different types of offenders to determine the sanctioning for the victims and to ensure the offender is ready to enter back into their community in good standing with no problems. In other words, they do not want them back in the community if they feel they have not learned their lesson or have been rehabilitated. Community justice’s main focus is to promote public safety and like I had said earlier to ensure that the quality of life of the community is in good standing. Community justice includes different ways of interpreting information about police, courts, and corrections that highlights problem-solving techniques. There is a strategy behind community justice such as including restorative justice practices and processes. They also include both adult and juvenile offenders to create a safer community rather than doing things for the offenders or actually to them. Community justice wants to prevent victimization to help establish public safety. It also places a high priority on the wants,

The North Carolina Department of Public Safety (Division of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention) is requesting funds to provide juveniles a second chance through a community supervision reform program. The Department’s goal for requesting these funds is to reduce the number of juveniles currently on probation. As of 2013, there were over 383,600 juveniles on probation. This program would provide grants by implementing community supervision strategies that reduces recidivism, and improves the outcome for juveniles that are currently under community supervision. Funding for this program will increase

With the objective to craft a policy package that would guarantee certainty in sentencing and controlling corrections costs while protecting and improving public safety, the task force forwarded its outcomes and 19 policy recommendations to the Mississippi Legislature in December 2013. The approvals for House Bill 585 were signed into legislation and introduced to prevent the anticipated prison growth over the next 10 years. By saving Mississippi taxpayers $266 million in operating costs while safely reducing the prison population below current levels, a successful probation and parole intervention was executed. The law also allowed the reallocation of The Department of Corrections transition from prisons

Notification: Public Attention, Political Emphasis, and Fear”, by Richard G. Wright, makes the following statement that goes along with issue involving the allocation of funds, “For the millions of direct and indirect expenditures spent on compliance and implementation with registration and notification laws, there is very little funding spent on sexual assault prevention, victim support, and offender treatment” (Wright 102). It is extremely important to put money towards rehabilitation, and the support of the victims of sexual assault, not just the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act.

The issue is intermediate sanctions and community corrections within the correctional practices. The two classic forms of punishment/supervision for crimes in the United States are imprisonment and probation. Imprisonment is extremely expensive, often too harsh for both the offender and his/her family based on the crime committed, and tends to be far less effective than hoped in rehabilitating the offender. Probation is used far more frequently than imprisonment but is problematic because many repeat offenders have already unsuccessfully undergone prior probation and there is a lack of supervision due to the heavy caseloads of probation department caseworkers. Faced with the great expense, extreme nature and ineffectiveness of imprisonment vs. the ineffectiveness and lack of supervision in probation, lawmakers have struggled to fill the gap between those two classic law enforcement measures with

This website is bringing awareness to domestic minor sex trafficking in Washington. They have identified that domestic minor sex trafficking is serious problem in their community. They have developed a year long training program to help equip their community so that they will have a response when they find a victim. They also have stated that domestic minor sex trafficking victims are victims not criminals. They have also created a very informative powerpoint that goes through key ideas on warning signs, identifying, and resources to call.

Anti-trafficking League against Slavery (ATLAS) was established in 2004 as an initiative to combat human trafficking under the Office of the U.S. Attorney, District of Nevada. At the same time, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services established the Rescue and Restore Coalition. In the attempt to join the two programs together under one leadership, the Southern Nevada Human Trafficking Task Force was established (Bureau). As stated on their website, “the mission of ATLAS is to identify, rescue and restore victims of human trafficking and to prosecute traffickers in the State of Nevada.” Shared Hope International released the 165-page which said "high-risk conditions of Las Vegas" including easy access to alcohol and drugs, 24-hour gambling, and a "hyper-sexualized entertainment industry" fuels the "domestic minor sex trafficking" problem (News, 2008). Finally, the Community Coalition for Victims Rights established in 1980 attempts to bring free training and awareness to the community (General, 2010). Both Shared Hope and the Community Coalition continue to bring education and awareness to the community. Beyond the assistance of these partners in terms of leadership, the program seems to be strictly run by the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department – Vice Section. It does not seem to have a specific infrastructure except for the fact that there are five steps of which incorporate many players in the

After interviewing Raana Simmons, I learned so much more about Colorado Coalition Against Sexual Assault (CCASA) and how advocating for a specific group of individuals makes a large difference. Some of the questions she directed me to their website because she stated that the information on the website was going to be more precise than how she would exactly word it. CCASA is a membership organization that promotes safety, justice, and healing for survivors of sexual assault while working to eliminate sexual violence (CCASA, 2016). CCASA services Colorado communities only and have a vision that Colorado communities believe and support survivors, hold perpetrators accountable, and take action to end sexual violence (CCASA, 2016). CCASA has a list of core values that are followed that help to advocate for the survivors of sexual violence, these core values include anti-oppression and Social justice/change, a survivor focus, collaborating and engaging the community, advocacy and education to prevent sexual violence, safety and freedom for victims of sexual violence, holding offenders accountable for their actions, and ethical communication and practice (CCASA, 2016).

Over the last decade, many state legislatures have offered better options and procedures for handling delinquent juveniles. Many

CAPTA continued the efforts to rid child abuse through funding programs that not only assisted in providing knowledge with identifying and reporting cases of abuse, but also providing aid and helpful resources to the child victims. “The Promoting Safe and Stable Families Programs, Title IV-B subpart 2 of the Social Security Act, is a significant source of federal funds to help states keep children safe from maltreatment, allow children to remain safely with their families, and ensure safe and timely permanency for children in foster care.” (Program, 2011). These programs receive funding and the costs vary depending on the demands, “In the most recent years, Congress has provided between $7.6 billion and $9.7 billion in federal support dedicated

Community service programs for first time offenders allow nonviolent offenders and the community a chance to rebuild their relationship. Offenders are given the opportunity to make restitution to the community. The community gains labor force needed for project throughout the community. According to Thomas (2008), the criminal activity done by the offender should be addressed and wherever possible restore victims in some tangible way and offer opportunities for offenders (Thomas, 2008). Community service programs are supported by non-profit organizations that have developed partnerships with the department of

Sex offenders have been a serious problem for our legal system at all levels, not to mention those who have been their victims. There are 43,000 inmates in prison for sexual offenses while each year in this country over 510,000 children are sexually assaulted(Oakes 99). The latter statistic, in its context, does not convey the severity of the situation. Each year 510,000 children have their childhood's destroyed, possibly on more than one occasion, and are faced with dealing with the assault for the rest of their lives. Sadly, many of those assaults are perpetrated by people who have already been through the correctional system only to victimize again. Sex offenders, as a class of criminals, are nine times more likely to repeat their

As mentioned within the paper, there are benefits to having services provided by both public and private entities; however, there are also concerns. The public sector, which was portrayed by services offered by TJJD, are required to provide yearly reports. In many ways these reports keep the system accountable for the money they are spending and the services they provide or require for juvenile offenders. The reports are open to the public and are easily accessible. As it relates to research, these reports allow people to critically assess juvenile programs, while challenging the government to refine or create programs superior to the ones offered in the past. Reports like these are harder to find regarding services offered by private entities and is a concern. Programs in which juvenile offenders are required to successfully complete, should never be determined by trial and error; however, this is often the case. On a positive note, private entities and community resources typically target the specific needs of a juvenile and include mental health components. Programs which do not offer mental health services should be critically assessed, as they are less likely to succeed. It is important that continued research is applied to the programs offered by both the public and private sectors. As it stands today, treatment services offered

According to NCCD, (2016). In National Council in Crime and Delinquency just envision on a society that which people in safe and communities supported them and deals with dignity by systems that they use it. There are aims of this organization which protect the children from abuse and neglect, create safe and rehabilitative justice system for adults, and the needs of older people and adults with disabilities. NCCD conducts different research on different issues in the child welfare, juvenile justice, education, criminal justice, and adult protective service systems. NCCD has provided for stakeholders technical assistance and extensive training in their issues and that include service agencies, court personnel, law enforcement, and criminal

The Human Services Organization I analyzed is New Beginnings. New Beginnings is an agency that provides sexual assault support services in Daviess, Hancock, Henderson, McLean, Ohio, Union, and Webster counties. The clients of this organization have all been affected by sexual assault or child sexual abuse. Issues within clients are best described as acute trauma responses or chronic trauma, such as sexual difficulties or loss of trust. In order to analyze this agency as efficiently as possible, I interviewed Terri Crowe, the Advocacy Coordinator, from New Beginnings. Terri was able to provide very useful information regarding this organization and how it ticks. Although New Beginnings provides services to seven different counties, there are