On The Defects And Perfecting Measures Of Community Treatment System To Juvenile Offenders In China

The history of criminal punishment is the history of humanity. In western countries, community treatment has taken the place of imprisonment as the main way to carry out criminal punishment. However, restricted by such elements as laggard judicial notions, incompetent related systems and imperfect application procedure, community treatment gets a cold reception in China. The ultra-low application rate of probation and parole reflects the awkward situation of community treatment in China. Therefore, there is a need to pay attention to the phenomenon, find out the deficiency in parole system and reconstruct it. The Ningbo Mode may give us some inspiration.The article is divided into four parts:The first part introduces and demonstrates the conception of community treatment and the history of community treatment to juvenile offenders both inside and outside China, tries to analyze the reason that community treatment is so widely respected, and figures out four meanings to apply community treatment to juvenile offenders. The second part introduces the overall situation of community treatment in Ningbo from five aspects such as system construction and fund assurance. Meanwhile, the article carefully introduces the execution procedure of community treatment in Ningbo, and summarizes both features and defects in the system and practice of community treatment in Ningbo.The third part analyzes the defects in the system of community treatment in China from six aspects such as public acceptance, legislature and institutional construction based on Ningbo practice.The fourth part puts forward pertinent measures to perfect the system of community treatment in China. Firstly, it should be well assured that the public know and accept community treatment; secondly, the relevant law should be formed and a perfect law system on community treatment should be constructed; thirdly, a specialized agency on community treatment should be founded, and should be equipped with professional personnel; fourthly, the relevant sub-system should be perfected, for example, recommitment prediction system and criminal record elimination system shall be established.