Exam 10: Probation and Intermediate Sanctions

A strategy to keep those offenders who qualify away from prison and jail and toward community-based and intermediate sanctions is:

Which of the following is NOT a risk factor of recidivism?

A process by which the government seizes private property attached to criminal activity is:

What type of electronic monitoring involves an offender wearing a device around the wrist, ankle, or neck, which sends out a continuous signal?

Discuss the sentencing arrangements that combine probation with incarceration.

When authorities do attempt to revoke parole for a technical violation, they must not provide the parolee with a revocation hearing and counsel to represent the parolee.

What is an alternative to trial offered by a judge or prosecutor, in which the offender agrees to participate in a specified counseling treatment program in return for withdrawal of the charges?

Which of the following is NOT one of the options of intermediate sanctions that judges have in sentencing?

With________ , the offender spends a certain amount of time each week, usually the weekends, in a jail, workhouse, or other government institution.

"Release from prison that occurs when an offender has served the full length of his or her sentence, minus any adjustments for good time."This is called_______________.

What are the three levels of home monitoring? What does each level require of the offender?

___________is a strategy to keep offenders who qualify away from prison and jail and sentence them to community-based and intermediate sanctions.

List and discuss the three stages of the revocation process.

Parole supervision is similar to probation supervision.

Contrast day reporting centers with intensive supervision probation.

Discuss the supervisory role of the probation officer, his or her use of authority, and the caseload dilemma.

Community-based corrections are an important means of diverting criminals to alternative modes of punishment so that scarce incarceration resources are consumed by only the most dangerous criminals.

___________ is defined as "an alternative to imprisonment in which a person who has been convicted of a crime is allowed to serve his or her sentence in the community subject to certain conditions and supervision by a probation officer."

In which case did the Court rule that probationers were entitled to an attorney during the revocation process?

Intensive supervision probation (ISP) clients typically have lower violation rates than traditional probationers.