Intermediate Sanctions Advantages

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There has been a continuance in crime with offenders that have underlying issues that require rehabilitation services beyond their need for punishment alone, in which probation detention facilities, work release centers, and residential facilities became more popular alternatives in addressing such issues. Intermediate sanctions, however, provide a more extensive process than most of the above mentioned, in that they provide more alternatives, are flexible in the degree of severity as well as in restriction continuum, which in turn can invoke tighter mobility restrictions and supervision during the integration process of providing treatment for multifaceted deficiencies and disorders. Intermediate sanctions increased in popularity because of the overcrowding of jails and prisons, public concerns of sufficient supervision of offenders on probation and parole, strains of victims and their communities to return to normal after a crime, changes and obtainable technologies that challenges the concepts of possibilities, wants of tailoring sentences accordingly to the offender and the offense, the inclining failure rates of offenders on probation and parole, and the effects of drug abuse crises that continue to exist in the U.S. McGarry noted several suggestions that could guide the appropriate approach