A non-custodial penalty means an alternative way of sentence services that is executed in the community.

Community Correction refers to a kind of criminal justice activity in which a non-custodial penalty or an alternative way of sentence services is executed in the community.

In the 2nd half of the 20th century, with the tide of the Non-Penalization and Non-imprisonment in the world, the developed countries in the West gradually reduced the application of custodial penalty, augmented the use of Non-custodial penalty and realized the transformation of penalty applicable model from custodial penalty to non-custodial penalty.

Due to the characteristics of economic crimes and the reform of penalty,the light penalty of economic crimes should take non-imprisonment punishment as the main approach.

As the first pass of community rectification,the court should have modern judicial notion,timely and properly apply the penalty against liberty or non-imprisonment punishment within the framework of Chinese current law to effectively and duly rectify the offenders,control and reduce crime anew,and contribute to social security and stability and build of the harmo- nious society.

But with the background of the opening world and because of the huge cost, unobvious effect and much side effect, many countries try their best to find an appropriate form of non-imprisonment punishment which can go along well with their own national conditions and.

Today, modern penalty tends to put more emphases on non-imprisonment penalty.

Up till now, it is a fact that the non-imprisonment penalty has been wildly used in thedeveloped countries.

China should advocate wide application of non-imprisonment.

In the past, we merely see it as a non-custodial sentence mode of implementation, its extension and intension are also not quite understood, more often than not, it is the custodial penalty that has been used in the judicial practice.

The system of non-custodial sentences has profound significance in accelerating non-adult criminals returning to society, diminishing jail economic pressure, avoiding intercrossing influence of less-severe criminals, allocating sensibly resources of execution, improving the virtuous cycle of pubic order.

Venial penalty is the penalty development trend of contemporary world,whose concrete expressions are the decline of the death penalty within the worldwide abolition of the death penalty and restrictions on movement;Liberal criminal execution-style changes from closed to open,semi-open changes,the rise of the execution of social and non-custodial sentence flourished.

The first one is to import the harmony value into criminal procedure;the second one is to frame more multiple system of dealing with the case;the third one is to generalize outside-prison punishment.