In recent years community-based corrections can be expected to play a much greater role in the criminal justice. Community-based corrections seeks to keep criminals in the community by building ties to family, employment, and other normal sources of stability and success. At the heart of community penalty systems today are the myriad conditions attached to sentencing courts' probation orders, and to special purpose orders for community service, curfew and like. Of course, a sentencing court imposing conditions of probation or another community penalty may not believe or intend them to be subjectively or objectively punitive. The court may not be imposing a penalty in that sense at all. In the viewpoint such as those backgrounds, it is very important somewhat for 'community justice', 'public safety' and 'restorative justice' etc.. They have political value as well as substantive merit, which increasingly leads managers of community-based corrections agencies - and other criminal justice agencies and community structures - to try to operationalize and harmonize the ideas in their practice. Therefore I am concerned about the relationships between 'Element of a Sense of Community' and 'Community-Based Corrections'. A sense of community can be defined as "a feeling that members have of belonging, a feeling that members matter to one another and to the group, and a shared faith that members' needs will be met through their commitment to be together. McMillan and Chavis argued four elements of a sense of community, those are Membership, Influence, Integration and fulfillment of needs, and Shared emotional connection. This study is aimed to seek the meaningful connection between the theory of McMillan & Chavis and community-based corrections in Korea. I assume that the four factors having the greatest impact on community-based corrections in our country

This thesis has been compossed the changes of corrections theory on treatment of offenders as well as the changes of policies on the criminal justice in the ROK. It has been made a conclusion after involving consideration of the new system of community-based corrections applicable to the ROK.