Correction 1 Flashcards
Punishing one offender discourages another from committing similar acts
General Deterrent Effect
Offender will decide against repeat offending after experiencing punishment for that offense
Specific Deterrence
Isolating offender to protect society
Incapacitation
Identifying high-rate offenders and providing for their long-term incarceration
Selective Incapacitation
Providing offender with services and programs that assist in changing character, attitudes, or behaviors that contribute to criminal propensities
Rehabilitation
Analysis of programs to discover what works with various offenders
Evidence-Based Programs
Offenders repayment to society and victims for losses, expenses, and damages that result from their crime
Restitution
Requires harsher sentences without parole for those convicted of third or higher-order felony
3 strikes law
Requires offenders to serve 85% of their sentences
Truth-in-sentencing
Permitted judges to suspend judgment and consider pardon for an offender or new evidence
Judicial Reprieve
Permitted offenders to remain free if they promised to pay their debts to the state
Recognizance
Individuals who would agree to make themselves responsible for offenders who had been released from custody
Sureties
State-based act through which counties who participate receive subsidies for diverting minor offender from state prisons
Community corrections act
A form of punishment that permits a convicted offender to remain in the community, under the supervision of a probation officer and subject to certain conditions set by the court
probation
A correctional system that is focused more on regulating and controlling offenders than on providing treatment or services for them.
Risk Management System
A new approach in probation and other community-based corrections that focuses more on administrative control and regulation than on treatment and offering services.
New penology
Alternative solutions developed by local, state, and federal government officials that enable convicted offenders to avoid the harsh reality of prison
Intermediate Sanctions
The offender, his or her attorney, or the sentencing judge can submit a motion to suspend the remainder of a sentence after a felon has served a period of time
Shock probation
Offender serves part of his or her sentence in one sanction and the remainder in another
Split sentence
The process of admitting an arrestee or sentenced misdemeanor to jail
Booking
The means, financial or property, used to release a defendant from jail
Bail bond
Retaining defendants in jail who are deemed dangerous or likely to commit crimes while awaiting trial
Preventive detention
Focuses on staff providing linear-intermittent surveillance of inmates which they do by patrolling the corridors and observing inmates in their cells
First generation jail
Where staff use remote supervision as they remain in a secure control booth surrounded by inmate pods or living areas
Second generation jail
