The difference between resettlement and community correction

They have different legal and policy basis, different working nature and different working objects.

1, the legal and policy basis is different. Community correction is mainly based on the Measures for the Implementation of Community Correction, and the placement of assistance and education is mainly based on the Opinions of the Central Committee for Comprehensive Management of Social Security on Further Strengthening the Work of Assistance and Education for Ex-prisoners.

2. The nature of work is different. Community correction is a kind of penalty execution activity, which is obviously mandatory and punitive; Resettlement assistance is administrative management and social work, focusing on education and assistance.

3. The working objects are different. The applicable objects of community correction are four types of criminals; The object of resettlement and assistance is the released prisoners, who have the possibility and tendency to commit crimes again.