Probation is the conditional release of an offender, after conviction, back into the community and requires that he or she be supervised by a probation officer and is the most common form of criminal punishment used in the United States (Schmalleger & Smykla, 2015). A 1988 study in Illinois showed that a sentence of probation with a community-based treatment program had the lowest recidivism rates based on the demographics upon which the sentence was imposed (Wooldredge, 1988). Although probation
for the crimes they commit such as incarceration, parole, and Probation. The goal of the criminal justice system to have criminals pay for the crimes they have committed and to reduce the number of crimes that are committed. Intermediate sanctions are a variety of punishments that are harsher than probation but not as harsh and costly as incarceration. Intermediate sanctions could be a way to deter crime but there a lot of pros and cons to the program. Intermediate sanctions has two goals which are