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What are the goals of punishment and corrections? Explain the rationale behind those goals. How does the concept of community corrections relate to these goals and rationale?

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The goal of punishment is to have people pay for what they have done that was illegal. Thus, they took away someone's liberty and the punishment for that is to have some of their liberties taken away while they are being punished. However, the goal of corrections is to rehabilitate an individual to make them stable enough to go back out into society ...

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