Chapter 15

Question 1

Other conditional releases

Answer 1

A probationary sentence used in some states to get around rigidity of mandatory release by placing convicted individuals in various community settings under supervision

Question 2

Discretionary release

Answer 2

The release of an individual from prison to conditional supervision at the discretion of the parole board within the boundaries set by the sentence and the penal law

Question 3

Mandatory release

Answer 3

The required release of an individual from incarceration to community supervision on the expiration of a certain period stipulate by determinate sentencing law or parole guideline

Question 4

Parole

Answer 4

The conditional release of an individual from incarceration, under supervision, after part of the prison sentence has been served

Question 5

Probation release

Answer 5

The release of someone from incarceration to probation supervision, as required by the sentencing judge

Question 6

Presumptive parole date

Answer 6

The presumed release date stipulated by parole guidelines if an individual serves time without disciplinary or other incidents

Question 7

Other conditional releases

Answer 7

A probationary sentence used in some states to get around the rigidity of mandatory release by placing convicted individuals in various community settings under supervision

Question 8

Expiration release

Answer 8

The release of an incarcerated individual into the community without any further correctional supervision; the individual cannot be returned to prison for any remaining portion of the sentence for the current offense

Question 9

“If a person on parole breaks a rule parole may be revoked and the person return to a correctional facility. Parole, then, rests on three concepts:“

Answer 9

First: grace or privilege second: contract of consent third: custody.

Question 10

Only people of ____ are released on parole

Answer 10

Felonise

Question 11

Describe Kansas versus Hendricks case

Answer 11

The case considers the US Supreme Court decision that a state can deny release to people who have completed their sentence.

Question 12

When did parole evolve in the United States and which countries models did it follow?

Answer 12

19th century, English, Australian and Irish

Question 13

Key figure to develop in parole in the 1800s who administered British penal colonies in Tasmania

Answer 13

Captain Alexander Maconochie

Question 14

Captain Alexander’s classification system by which individuals could pass through stages of increasing responsibility and freedom

Answer 14

One: strict imprisonment, two: labor on chain gangs, three: freedom within an area, for: a ticket of leave or parole with conditional pardon, five: full liberty.

Question 15

When did the congress create US board of parole?

Answer 15

1930

Question 16

Five basic mechanisms for release from prison

Answer 16

One: discretionary release, two: mandatory release, three: probation release, for: other conditional release, five: expiration release

Question 17

Probation release is often tied to ____ incarceration

Answer 17

Shock

Question 18

Borough boards are either organized inside the department as a ____ or, as a independent agency of government to be ______

Answer 18

Consolidation, autonomous

Question 19

What factors guy the parole board decision?

Answer 19

Nature and circumstances offense and current attitude towards it, prior criminal record, attitude towards family members victims and authority in general, institutional adjustment and participation and progress in programs for self provement, history and community adjustment, physical mental and emotional health, insight into cause of past criminal conduct, adequacy of parole plan.