The Legal Strategy To Implement And Consummate Community Correction In China

The community corrections, as a non-imprisonment Penalty, is supervised by local government, assisted by non-governmental organizations and volunteers are created to many communities with local punishment options as an alterative. Within the prescribed period of time, crime consciousness and bad behavior habits will be fixed. The goal of the program is to reduce the probability of continued criminal behavior while maintaining the steady of the society.Community correction has become the trend in the world on penal execution and criminal correctional system. Because it is harmonious with the concepts of restorative justice, criminal justice and some other judicial new concepts. In western countries, community correction has become the dominant punishment in the criminal enforcement system.In2004Baotou as a pilot city began community correction. In the period of8years Baotou have obtained some achievements, mainly displays in the following terms:initially form of community correction organization, found a set of basic system of community correction, expand of community correction team etc. However, there exist gaps and inadequate:lack of strong legal protection, relatively single on community correction forms and means, unclear status of the subject of law enforcement, lack of professional personnel on community correction, lack of procedure protection system.Based on the problems appearing in the community correction in Baotou we can see that the development of the community correction in China. At the same time, also need to take some measures to maintain the system of community correction, such as legislation, to increase the community correction forms and means, to make definite of the status of the subject of the law enforcement, to achieve the rectification personnel specialized, to establish community correction of procedure protection system.