Corrections

Probation Reforms

• Increase the use of probation (vs. prison)
• Greater use of halfway “in” houses for those in need of enhanced life structure
• Holistic rehabilitative/reintegrative assistance orientation
• Reduce supervision of low-risk offenders
• Utilize more VIPs (Volunteers in Probation)
• Reduce probation officer caseload size:
• Social service focused officer to some
• Custody oriented officer to others (intensive/electronic)

Greater Use of Community-Based Options (generally minimize the level of intrusion into the system)

• Pretrial release/pretrial diversion (including drug courts)
• Street diversion (via problem solving policing)
• Community courts (victim/offender mediation)
• Probation
• Halfway houses
• Restitution/community service sentences
• Drug/alcohol treatment diversion
• Mental health diversion

Greater Use of Community-Based Options …continued

• Misc. therapy and counseling programs
• Intermittent incarceration
• Family relations and life skills class
• Educational and voc training and assistance programs
• Employment preparation and expectation courses
• Employment assistance programs
• Expanded fine schedule/waiverable offense schedule (citations)
• Prison/jail furlough programs

Bio-Criminology Options

Crime can be reduced by:

• Balancing out the hormones and enzymes produced by the body (serotonin, dopamine, melatonin, testosterone, estrogen, MAOA, CSF/serum albumin, phenethylamine/MAO-B, oxytocin).
• Removing the excessive caustic externally absorbed components (lead, mercury, cadmium, PCBs, manganese, nicotine in the prenatal period).
• Balancing/increasing the intake of healthy substances (dietary adjustments with a focus on healthy nutrition, general vitamin therapy and particularly zinc, iron, chromium, omega 3 and 6, DHA, protein in the prenatal period).