Exam 14: Community Corrections: Probation and Intermediate Sanctions

Chan Le is a probation officer who is employed by the state.Chan Le has an extremely large caseload and often gets overwhelmed by the requirements of his job.In the middle of the night,Chan Le is called to respond to one of his new clients who has been caught shoplifting a small amount of merchandise from a local department store.Two days prior,this same client had failed a drug test.If Chan Le tries to have his client's probation revoked,the client will first need to have a(n)

Persons on probation can refuse drug tests because they interfere with the Fourth Amendment right to privacy.

The percentage of former prisoners who are rearrested for a similar offense is called the

Discuss the philosophical assumptions that form the basis of community corrections.

The judiciary administers

Chan Le is a probation officer who is employed by the state.Chan Le has an extremely large caseload and often gets overwhelmed by the requirements of his job.In the middle of the night,Chan Le is called to respond to one of his new clients who has been caught shoplifting a small amount of merchandise from a local department store.Two days prior,this same client had failed a drug test.Which of the following actions would Chan Le not be able to take?

Compare and contrast the different types of intermediate sanctions.What are the correctional philosophies behind each?

The revocation of probation cannot result in incarceration.

Intensive Supervision Parole programs have been called "old-style" probation because each officer has only twenty clients and such programs require frequent face-to-face contact.

Chan Le is a probation officer who is employed by the state.Chan Le has an extremely large caseload and often gets overwhelmed by the requirements of his job.One of Chan Le's clients,Carlos,served two years of prison time for theft.He has been out of prison for a year,and was just arrested for car theft,along with his brother José,who has not previously done time.José has a(n)________ probability of recidivism on probation as compared to Carlos.

There are two types of ISP: institutional diversion and _____ diversion.

Community supervision is more expensive than incarceration.

A sum of money paid to the state by a convicted person as punishment is called a(n)____.

Over half of probationers have no direct contact with their probation officer.

Morris and Tonry have held that intermediate sanctions are rarely used in the United States,and judges tend to rely mostly on incarceration and probation.Discuss why this is the case.

The branch of government that administers restitution is the _____.

Fines must be used in conjunction with some other form of punishment because merely paying a fine is not considered a punishment under the U.S.Constitution.

Most day reporting centers incorporate multiple correctional methods.

Forfeiture is administered by the executive branch.

At a combined probation-revocation and sentencing hearing,the probationer is