The Thoughts And Recommendations On The Completeness Of The Community Corrections System

As a new criminal-processing mode compared to the conventional organizations, community corrections plays a great role in promoting criminals'successful return to society by making active use of social resources and integrating all social forces to achieve the management, education and rehabilitation of the criminals, who are related to minor offenses, light in subjective malignant and less harmful to the society, and to correct their criminal psychology and behaviors. Since the second half of the 20th century, community correction has become the most widely used execution style in developed countries, and even in some countries, the number of community corrections is much larger than that in the prison, basically having formed a scientific and rational mechanism.In July 2003, the Supreme People's Court, The Supreme People's Procuratorate, the Ministry of Public Security and Justice Department of PRC jointly issued correction work on the development of community notification, naming Beijing, Shanghai, Tianjin, Zhejiang, Jiangsu, Shandong as the country's first pilot city to launch a pilot of community corrections. In September 2009, the aforementioned four departments jointly issued the "national trial on the views of Community Corrections, making the Community Corrections a full trial in the country. Especially the introduction of the Criminal Law Amendment (Eighth) has solved a number of important legal issues of community corrections. But as to the status of Community Corrections works, the overall level is still low and there are large problems and shortcomings to be further deepened and improved. This paper chooses the real hot topic. Starting from the investigation of the grassroots County Community and aims to introduce and discuss the community corrections from the theoretical level and practical level, as well as to put forward some thoughts and recommendations on its improvement.This paper consists of three parts except the introduction and conclusion.The first part is the research aims and methods. The research study aims to carry out a pilot community correction situation as a starting point, explore a full range of study of work on community corrections and provide data and cases for the improvement of our community corrections system. Next, the research methods combines with many ways such as site-visits, interviews, questionnaires, inspection reports, reading files and also combining the entire areas with the set ones. Then it analyzes the data obtained.The second part is the circumstance of the investigations. The first is brief introduction of a city researched. Second, it describes the innovation and experience of the work of community corrections in this city, including: using information technology, meaning the GPS positioning mobile terminals, in the use of community corrections work to crack the regulatory problems; carrying out pre-trial investigation for the future work of community corrections; collecting 2,000 yuan per year per person to ensure the normal work of community corrections. Third, it introduces the problems and difficulties of Community corrections in the city. These problems and difficulties are as follows. First is the various problems caused by the legislation of community corrections that lags behind. Second, community corrections staff is not qualified in specialization because of the lack of professional and systematic training. Third, the public are lack awareness of community corrections through questionnaires. Fourth describes regulatory problems that exist from the aspects that the object to be deprived of political rights is not subject to regulation, the sanctions of prison staff who violates regulatory requirements is not perfect, it lacks of specific standards to deal with the management of persons who separates with his Household. Fifth, the correction methods are too simple including the lack of scientific methods, the difficulties to carry out public activities and the strengthening of remedial work.The third part is the proposals to improve the community corrections. First is to improve the legislation related to community corrections. The community corrections system has been established by "Criminal Law Amendment (Eighth)", but there are still a lot of legal issues to resolve. So it should be necessary to establish the Community Corrections Act, and progressively implement the specific regulations. Then the various provinces (autonomous regions) should develop local regulations by combing with local conditions. Second, it is necessary to change the traditional concept of community corrections by strengthening the promotion of community residents and changing the concept of judicial personnel who is obsessed with the heavy penalty and sentence of imprisonment. The third is to build community corrections system from the four aspects as following: to establish a dedicated community corrections management agency, to establish a work team of community corrections consisting of community corrections officer, professional social work and community volunteers, to improve comprehensive reward system, to the establish funds for community corrections. The fourth emphasizes on the improvement of the ways in community corrections, the establishment of corrective program for targeted case, the effectiveness of the conversation, broadening the breadth of the focus, the employment of a wide range of community service and psychological correction, the innovative way of correction. The fifth is to enhance the use of information technology in community corrections in the application, which is to rely on specific information management system for the platform and "GPS" positioning control platform, to track and supervise the important objects at any time in the field, and to prevent and reduce the escape from supervision and re-offending. The fifth focuses on the implement and improvement of pre-trial investigation system. Finally, it concerns with the prevention of the emergence of new judicial corruption by enhancing supervision including the strengthening of self-construction of the community corrections staff, the delivery of the implementation, activities regulation, executive changes, termination of supervision and avoidance of the bureaucratic and arbitrariness of community corrections.