Wang Youjiang

A Research on Classification Management and Staged Correction (CMSC) Model
by
Wang Youjiang
Deputy Director, Beijing Justice Bureau, China

This presentation focuses on CMDE Model in China’s community correction. Classification Management classifies the offenders based on their degrees of threat to the society and their statuses of rehabilitation. Staged Correction divides community correction to offenders into three stages: correction to new comers, normal correction and pre-release correction.
The presentation contains four parts: the first part discusses the objective and significance of the CMSC model; the second part discusses relevant theories and practices; the third part elaborates practice of the model; the last part concludes the presentation with overall evaluation.
 

Wu Zongxian

Coordination of the Agencies involved in Community Correction
by
Wu Zongxian
Researcher, Institute for Crime Prevention

Since a large member of institutions, including courts, enforcing agencies, supervising agencies, relevant agencies and other non-government organizations are working in Community Correction, it is necessary to coordinate all the agencies involved to make community correction go more smoothly. Community correction activities contain penalty enforcing, administration of offenders, rehabilitation corrections and assistances to offenders; therefore how to improve the agencies and their activities involved in community correction is a big issue. We should coordinate all the agencies, coordinate law enforcement activities, improve the community correction network, and standardize the community activities involved in community correction.
 

Methods and measures in community correction
Speaker from Jiangsu Justice Bureau

In this speech, I will give a introduction to the general situation of pilot projects of community correction in Jiangsu province. Further, I will report the methods and measures we adopted in community correction from following aspects: enhance the coordination between courts, prisons, jails, and local police stations to lay a firm foundation to community correction; design different project to individual according to offender’s characters and supervising them under routing life; supervise the offenders in terms of observing national law, regulation, and supervision, and accepting psychological treatment; adopt different plans according to the correction stage of an offender; help offenders to solve their problems in daily life, provide job training, offer allowance to ensure their basic life; and establish a detailed set of regulations and make the offenders well know what kind of behaviors are encourages and what kind of behaviors should be punished to keep community correction running well.
 

Zhang Yu

Professional Training to Social Workers in Community Correction — Shanghai as an example
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Zhang Yu
Professor, East China University of Science and Technology

China is now developing Community Correction with the purpose of preventing crimes and reducing the number of criminals. The current work which is also the essential work is to form a professional and effective team of Social Workers, including staff and volunteers. Taking Shanghai as an example, this report elaborates the experiences of professional training to social workers in Shanghai. In practice, we advise to follow the model consisted of four factors: centralized training, superintendence of experts, self-training and mutual supervision. The training should focus on both execution of punishments and services provided to offenders.

Wang Shun-an

The Pros and Cons of Community Correction
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Wang Shun-an
Professor, China University of Political Science and Law China

Community Correction is a way and measurement to make up the defect of incarceration to offenders, so it is necessary to study and research how to improve the effect and which elements are the pivotal content to make community correction successful. According to our experiences of pilot projects in community correction, the internal and external factors should be concerned. The external factors include construction of community correction, social security and community policing; the internal factors include construction of the organization structure, mobilization of social resources, design and implement of community correction project, protection of law, and financial support. At the end of this speech, I will emphasize the way of working in community correction. Community correction should be treated as a system project. All social recourses, community personnel should be involved and be brought into full play to help the offenders return to normal society.