Chapter 9 Nonresidential Graduated Sanctions Flashcards
Home-based electronic monitoring
An intermittent or continuous radio frequency signal transmitted through a land line telephone or wireless unit into a receiver that determines whether the offender is or is not at home.
House arrest
A community-based sanction in which offenders serve their sentence at home. Offenders have curfews and may not leave their home except for employment and correctional treatment purposes. Also called home detention or home confinement.
Electronic monitoring
A correctional technology used as a tool in intensive supervision probation, parole, day reporting, or home confinement, using a radio frequency or satellite technology to track offender whereabouts using a transmitter and receiver.
Remote location monitoring
When a supervising officer uses a hand-held remote receiver to wirelessly verify an offender’s physical location.
Global Positioning System
A system that uses 24 military satellites orbiting the earth to pinpoint the offender’s exact location intermittently or at all times.
Passive gps
A GPS system that temporarily stores location data that is downloaded through a landline phone once every 24 hours or at specific times when the offender is home.
Active gps
A real-time GPS system that transmits data through wireless networks continuously at a rate of once or twice per minute. A phone line continually calls a reporting station to update the offender’s location, which is tracked by a computer.
Exclusion zones
Exact locations the offender is prohibited from being in or near.
Inclusion zones
Exact locations, such as employment, school, or an appointment, where the offender is required to be at a certain time.
Day reporting centers
Nonresidential programs typically used for defendants on pretrial release, for convicted offenders on probation or parole, or as an increased sanction for probation or parole violators. Services are provided in one central location, and offenders must check in daily.
