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Question 1

What are corrections?

Answer 1

The structure, policies, and programs delivered by governments for persons convicted of criminal offenses.
not for profit organizations or the public to punish

Question 2

What are the two types of corrections?

Answer 2

Non-carceral (non-institutional) and carceral (institutional)

Question 3

What are non-carceral corrections?

Answer 3

Community corrections, alternative to confinement, programs for offenders released from correctional institutions

Question 4

What are carceral corrections?

Answer 4

Jails and correctional institutions operated by
the provinces and territories and the
federal government

Question 5

What is absolute/ conditional discharge?

Answer 5

When the presiding judge discharges an offender in cases where an accused person either pleads guilty or is found guilty of an offence

Question 6

What are the exceptions to absolute/ conditional discharge?

Answer 6

When there is a mandatory minimum sentence, or the offense is punishable by imprisonment for 14 years to life

Question 7

What is a suspended sentence?

Answer 7

Convicted offenders are provided with the opportunity to avoid incarceration by abiding by the conditions of a probation order for a period from 1-3 years

Question 8

What is diversion?

Answer 8

Programs that are designed to keep offenders
from being processed further into the formal
criminal justice system

Question 9

What are the pros of diversion?

Answer 9

Reduces cost, minimizes social stigmatization, assists offenders in addressing the specific factors related to their offending

Question 10

What is victim-offender mediation?

Answer 10

Programs that take a restorative approach, the victim, and offender get to address their feelings and concern, a neutral mediator helps resolve conflict, addresses the consequences of the offense, creates understanding for each other

Question 11

What is net widening?

Answer 11

Persons who would have been released outright by police or not charged by the crown counsel now become involved in the justice system because of various diversion programs.
An unanticipated consequence

Question 12

What is a conditional sentence?

Answer 12

Sentences that can be given to convicted persons who would otherwise be incarcerated for less than two years

Question 13

What are the rules of conditional sentences?

Answer 13

To be served in the community, must fulfill certain conditions, not on probation, failure to comply results in the offender being returned to court

Question 14

When is probation assigned?

Answer 14

In a case with no minimum penalty, the judge may place the offender on probation for up to 3 years

Question 15

What do applicants for probation officer positions require?

Answer 15

A university degree, strong verbal and communication skills, case management and supervision, problem solving skills

Question 16

What are the activities of probation officers?

Answer 16

Assessing client’s needs and the risk they pose, providing individualized case management to reduce criminal behavior, supervising offenders on probation and persons who have been released on bail while awaiting trial

Question 17

What is strategic training initiative in community supervision (STICS)?

Answer 17

Teaches probation officers ways to utilize
those principles when supervising probationers
-Attention to criminogenic factors such as
relationships with peers and criminal thinking
patterns
- Centered on relationship building and
establishing trust
- The probation officer assumes the role of change
agent

Question 18

What is intensive supervision probation?

Answer 18

Increased surveillance of probationers, various treatment interventions, efforts to ensure that offenders are employed, reduced caseloads for probation officers, and Is used primarily with youth offenders

Question 19

What are challenges faced by probation officers?

Answer 19

Supervising a diverse clientele, occupational stress, probation services in northern and remote areas, supervising high-risk and high-need probationers

Question 20

What is electronic monitoring?

Answer 20

Used by provincial and territorial systems of corrections and Correctional Service Canada to monitor offenders who are under supervision in the community

Question 21

What are the attributes of electronic monitoring?

Answer 21

Imposed by the sentencing judge, a condition of early release from incarceration, ensures public safety while at same time allowing offender to remain in the community