Supervision Strategies and Their Correlates: An Empirical Study of Chinese Community Correctional Staff

• In Event: The Practices and Strategies of Treatment and Community-based Corrections Personnel

Abstract

While there are different approaches to dealing with offenders sentenced to community corrections, the three major ones are law enforcement (surveillance), therapeutic (rehabilitation), and crime opportunity prevention. Using the study of U.S. community corrections staff by Miller (2014) as a guide, the current study examined the supervision strategy used by Chinese community corrections staff in the Hubei providence of China. Chinese community corrections staff were more likely to use the therapeutic and crime opportunity prevention approaches than the law enforcement model. Predictors of each of the three offender supervision approaches differed. The results from Chinese staff were similar in many ways to that found among U.S. staff reported by Miller, but differed in some areas.

Authors

• Shanhe Jiang, Wayne State University

• Eric Lambert, University of Mississippi

• Dawei Zhang, Central China Normal University

• Xiaohong Jin, Central China Normal University