Core Principles
Center for Community Corrections (CCC)
Core Principles
The Center engages in projects to develop a better understanding of the work of community corrections and its challenges. Our project staff and advisors respond to requests for technical assistance and information from a wide variety of agencies. We also have presented information at many national meetings, briefings and conferences on selected research items. We provide a network of experts in the field as well as current information on topics of interest to community corrections practitioners and policy makers.
Like the National Committee on Community Corrections, the Center emphasizes core principles that include:
- Balancing punishment with principles of equity, due process and proportionality through holding offenders accountable through community punishments.
- Setting and measuring progress toward public safety goals such as: punishment, victim compensation, reparations for crime and offender treatment.
- Allocating discretion in the administration of community corrections in explicit, publicly defined ways that are similar to other parts of the criminal justice system.
- Encouraging the community to learn about and become involved in decisions and issues related to community correctional services.
- Engaging in projects to increase cost-effective community correctional services without putting public safety or program quality at risk.
