Chapter 6 Flashcards
Intensive supervision
subjects’ offenders to closer surveillance, for:
- high risk offenders for intense cognitive behavior treatment
- offender allowed a certain degree of non-compliance
- direct contact with offender with in- person and digital monitoring
Offenders with addiction
- identify quality drug treatments with staff
- refer clients to a community-based program
- relapse prevention after intensive treatment ends
Treatment retention model
recommends that treatment begins with offenders while incarcerated, and when released, cognitive behavior relapse prevention program retains offenders
Antabuse, Methadone, Buprenorphine, and Naltrexone
given to clients with addictions to heroin and other opiate based drugs
- Naltrexone - opiate antagonist that blocks opiate access to brain receptors
Drug courts
judge, prosecutor, defense attorney, and probation officer work together with the treatment provider, for nonviolent drug offenders, moderate substance usage, half are pre-adjudication, 1 year in length
Specialized mental health probation caseloads
trained officer operates a caseload specializing in mental health issues
Outpatient community clinics
allows avoidance of incarceration, improves independent functioning, continues with ongoing treatment
CB Residential facilities for the mentally ill
inpatient, alternative to jail for offenders who need more structure and treatment intervention, but not outpatient services
Sex offender
exposing oneself in a public place of rape, more laws passed due to political pressures, trained officers recognize secrecy and deceit
Sex offender treatment
- court mandated to attend treatment
- have to admit their guilt first, as well as their own sex offenses
Polygraph tests
a tool to reduce secrecy and deceit that offenders use with their victims and supervising probation officers, as well as used for supervision
Containment supervising approach
- 2–4-hour fact to face contacts between officer and probationer per month
- 2 home and computer searches per month
- polygraph tests
- high risk offenders need GPS monitoring
- offenders must supply blood and saliva samples for DNA bank
- prohibited porn and Internet access
Sex offender laws
- Megan’s law - assist in sex crimes while allowing the public to know about the location and identities of offenders
- 3 tiers - 1 (low) - 3 (high) risk assessment
1 - 1 per year, 2 - every 6 months, 3 - every 3 months
Community notification laws
sex offender information is available upon request of the individual, or they’ll go to probation and parole agencies to disseminate information about released offenders to the community
Residency restrictions
prohibits sex offenders from living and being within 500-2,500 feet from children or areas where there might be children, must register for life and can’t live in public housing
Sex offender conditions
- no contact with minors, unless granted permission by parole officer
- no diddling children
- no possession of explicit sexual material
- no internet access, if necessary then it can’t be a personal computer, can’t work where internet access is allowed
- notify neighbors and employers about offenses
- not cameras or video equipment access
- can’t work around children, no living near schools
