Chapters 10-12 Flashcards
A development in probation supervision that attempts to provide public safety and offender accountability through intensive monitoring and supervision of the probationer.
Intensive supervision probation (ISP)
An informal or formal disposition that is based in the community, involving conditions (court-imposed rules) and supervision by a probation officer.
Juvenile probation
Court-imposed rules that are a central part of the disposition of probation. Juveniles placed on probation by the court must obey these conditions in order to live in the community and avoid confinement.
Probation conditions
Monitoring and assistance of probationers by probation officers. The approach to supervision taken by probation officers determines the relative emphasis given to offender rehabilitation or enforcement of probation rules.
Probation supervision
The legal termination of probation by the court when the youth commits a new offense or violates the conditions of probation.
Revocation
The assistance, services, and programs that follow residential placement upon a resident’s release.
Aftercare
An approach to delinquency that attempts to actively involve victims and community members and use community resources in delinquency prevention and intervention. This approach is directed at three goals: offender accountability, competency development, and public safety.
Balanced and restorative justice
Community-based sanctions and treatments that typically involve adjudicated youth. These include day reporting centers, house arrest, restitution, community service, intensive probation supervision, counseling, drug treatment, and mental health services.
Community treatment
Out-of-home placement of youth in group living facilities such as group homes, foster homes, and shelter care. These facilities may occasionally be used for aftercare.
Community-based residential placement
The tendency to deal with juvenile matters informally, without formal processing and adjudication, by referring cases to special programs and agencies inside or outside the juvenile justice system.
Diversion
Specialized courts that give juveniles an opportunity to have their charges dismissed or their dispositions modified, if they complete a course of drug treatment under court supervision. The therapeutic approach in these courts involves a comprehensive plan of drug treatment services, graduated sanctions, and incentives and rewards for progress.
Drug courts
Community-based residential placements and sanctions that, in terms of severity, exist between the more lenient response of probation and the harsher response of placement in custodial institutions.
Intermediate sanctions
Specialized courts that are designed primarily for non-violent juvenile offenders who have been diagnosed with a serious mental illness. The therapeutic approach in these courts involves a comprehensive plan of mental health services, graduated sanctions, and incentives and rewards for progress.
Mental health courts
Specialized courts designed to offer treatment and rehabilitation rather than simply punishment. The most common types of problem-solving courts for juveniles are drug courts and mental health courts. Sometimes called treatment courts or therapeutic courts.
Problem-solving courts
Specialized courts that are voluntary diversion programs, typically used for status offenders and first-time non-serious delinquent offenders. Offenders receive restorative sanctions, administered by other teenagers. Given authority through an agreement between prosecutors and police to defer formal charges for youth who agree to participate.
Teen courts
