Download or read book House Arrest and Correctional Policy written by Richard A. Ball and published by SAGE Publications, Incorporated. This book was released on 1988-03 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prison overcrowding has led criminal justice experts to seek viable options to incarceration. House Arrest and Correctional Policy considers one of these new approaches and raises important legislative and constitutional questions as well as social and psychological issues. The authors discuss both the advantages and disadvantages of house arrest, consider several specific programmes, evaluate research undertaken in various states and outline their own research.