Exam 10: Probation, Parole, and Intermediate Sanctions

A community-based corrections center towhich offenders report on a daily basis for the purpose of treatment, education, and incapacitation is a: ​

List and discuss the three stages of the probation revocation process.

As a correctional parole officer, you are responsible for making recommendations tothe parole board regarding those you believe have made significant strides tonot only better themselves through prison programming, but more importantly, have expressed sincere remorse for their crimes. For your particular caseload, you are assigned violent offenders whohave served at least three-fourths of their actual sentence. At present, you are reviewing the file of an 81 year-old man whois serving a life-sentence with the possibility of parole. The offender in question killed a man during a botched armed robbery of a bank. At the time of the offense, the offender was 18 years of age; thus he has spent most of his entire adult life in prison. During the decades of his incarceration, he became a model inmate by engaging in educational and vocational training. In addition, he has written thirteen letters tothe family over the last few decades toexpress his sorrow for his actions. The bank teller he killed was a married woman with three children. Although the parole board has refused his first three requests for parole prior toyou being assigned the case, you must now decide as his officer whether or not toadvocate for this offender. Although the woman's husband has since passed, her children are still alive, and twoof the three children have indicated that they have forgiven the man for his crime, while the oldest child has not. As the assigned parole officer, what will your recommendation be tothe parole board? Please explain.

Case 10-1 Scott is a 24-year-old high school dropout. He has been in and out of trouble with the law since he was a teenager, committing mostly public nuisance offenses such as disorderly conduct and public intoxication. His girlfriend just broke up with him because he had noambition in his life and she did not want totake care of him. She threw him out of her apartment. Scott just agreed toplead guilty for the crime of burglary after he broke intohis ex-girlfriend's car tosteal the change that she keeps in the cup-holder. ​ The prosecutor in this case is adamant that Scott serve some jail time. In the plea discussions, the prosecutor suggests that Scott agree tospend ninety days in jail and then he will automatically serve a two-year probation sentence. This suggested sentence is known as: ​

What level of home monitoring requires the offender toremain home at all times, save for medical emergencies? ​

Case 10-1 Scott is a 24-year-old high school dropout. He has been in and out of trouble with the law since he was a teenager, committing mostly public nuisance offenses such as disorderly conduct and public intoxication. His girlfriend just broke up with him because he had noambition in his life and she did not want totake care of him. She threw him out of her apartment. Scott just agreed toplead guilty for the crime of burglary after he broke intohis ex-girlfriend's car tosteal the change that she keeps in the cup-holder. ​ The prosecutor in the case expresses concern that Scott is headed down the wrong path and suggests a little prison time would shake him up. The defense attorney in the case believes that it is not necessary toimprison Scott for this offense. Even though the law states that Scott can serve up tofive years in a state prison for his offense, his attorney believes that prison resources are tooscarce and that Scott is an offender whoqualifies for a community- based sanction. This practice is known as: ​

When authorities doattempt torevoke parole for a technical violation, they must provide the parolee with a revocation hearing and counsel torepresent the parolee. ​

List the three concepts that parole is based up on. Next, parole boards use a number of criteria todetermine whether a convict should be given discretionary release. Please discuss these criteria.

As a local juvenile magistrate, you are starting torealize that based on the number of youth you are seeing in your court, that something must change in the community. At present, you have many youth whoare getting intotrouble after school hours, and more specifically in the summer time when school is out of session. As a juvenile magistrate, you decide torequest funding from the local city council, the mayor, and the attorney general of your state tocreate a program todivert youth from the criminal justice system by getting the youth involved in more creative and worthwhile endeavors (i.e., jobs, training, sports, etc.)Please create a brief, yet detailed plan that you are going topresent toyour city council, the mayor, and your attorney general whomay ultimately fund your pilot program. Be sure toinclude a brief rationale for each of your suggestions.

The most restrictive level of home monitoring is: ​

Intermediate sanctions reduce the amount of control the state exerts over the individual compared tostandard probation. ​

In which case did the Supreme Court rule that probationers were entitled toan attorney during the revocation process? ​

A majority of states limit intensive supervision probation tooffenders who: ​

Identify and discuss the three general categories of probation conditions.

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

Most probationers are repeat offenders whohave committed nonviolent crimes. ​

As a means toreverse patterns of self-destructive behavior and tohelp the offender deal with certain problems related tohis/her behavior, _____conditions are usually imposed on the offender. ​

_______________________is a technique of probation supervision in which the offender's whereabouts are kept under surveillance by an electronic device.

The three stages of probation revocation include a preliminary hearing, revocation hearing, and  _________________________________. ​

___________________________is a strategy tokeep offenders whoqualify away from prison and jail and sentence them tocommunity-based and intermediate sanctions.