Abstract: Whether the correction object can successfully returned to society, depends, to a large extent, on whether the social environment he lives in is favorable to him, and whether the social is available to him. Based on the theory of social support, this paper investigates the social support status of community correction objects by means of questionnaire investigation and statistical analysis, such as the basic living conditions, reasons for the change of the basic situation, the willingness to seek help and the influence of the social support on the overall situation before and after entering the correction system. In addition, this paper investigates includes the overall social support, social objective support, social subjective support and social support the influence factors. In the study, the fishbone chart is exploited to describe the social support operation status of the correction objects. The results shows that the objective support was influenced by the self-factors of the community correction objects,while the subjective support was most affected by the support factors from relatives and friends. This is different from common sense.

Key words: community corrections, social support system, subjective and objective support, social support utilization