1. Community prisoners refer to those who have been punished by five methods or measures: public surveillance, probation, temporary execution outside prison, parole and deprivation of political rights. According to the assessment of rewards and punishments, the community prisoners are managed according to "three levels and four levels", that is, one-level wide management, two-level wide management, general management and strict management.

2. Control means that the people's court decides not to imprison criminals, but to restrict their freedom, and it is handed over to the people's judicial administrative organs (judicial bureaus) for control and supervision of reform.

3. Probation refers to a system in which criminals sentenced to criminal detention and fixed-term imprisonment of not more than three years think that suspending the execution of the original sentence will not harm society according to the circumstances of the crime and the performance of repentance, set a certain probation period, and suspend the execution of the penalty.

4. Parole is a criminal who has been sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment or life imprisonment. After serving a certain period of time, he really repents and no longer harms society, and the people's court can conditionally release him in advance.

5, temporary execution outside prison, refers to the criminals sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment or criminal detention, due to some special circumstances stipulated by law, it is not appropriate to execute the punishment in prison, according to the law to take temporary execution outside prison instead of punishment execution.

6. Deprivation of political rights is a penalty method to deprive criminals of their right to participate in state management and political activities.