Administering punishment: research on community supervision staff

• In Event: Rutgers at 50: The Aims and Consequences of Punishment

Abstract

The divergent goals of community supervision make it a complicated form of punishment. Publicly and in policy, it’s sometimes seen as a “break” from punishment. For those under supervision, it can be seen as a more challenging punishment than incarceration. For criminal justice broadly, the effects of community supervision are far reaching. We’ll outline the research at Rutgers on community supervision and discuss how scholarship that calls on the voices of community supervision staff can further inform our understanding of non-institutional punishment practices and their implications.

Author

• Ashley Balavender, Rutgers University