Exam 2 Flashcards
Correlates of the likelihood of recidivism that, once they are set, cannot be changed (such as age at first arrest, number of convictions, etc.).
Static Factors
Correlates of the likelihood of recidivism that can be changed through treatment and rehabilitation (drug and alcohol abuse, anger management, quality of family relationships, and so forth).
Dynamic Factors
A measure of an offender’s propensity to commit further criminal activity that also indicates the level of community supervision required.
Risk
The oversight that a probation or parole officer exercises over those in his or her custody.
Supervision
An officer’s personal visit to an offender’s home or place of employment for the purpose of monitoring progress under supervision.
Field Contact
A method of community monitoring that ascertains offender compliance through one or more of the following means: face-to-face home visits, curfew, electronic monitoring, phone verification, and drug testing.
Surveillance
A therapeutic intervention for helping a person to change that is a blend of two types of therapies—cognitive therapy of the mind and behavioral change of the body.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Treatment that holistically addresses previous victimization experiences and life circumstances that most often pertain to girls and women offenders, delivered in a collaborative and nonconfrontational manner.
Gender-specific programing
An agreement signed by all states and U.S. territories that allows for the supervision of parolees and probationers across state lines.
Interstate compact
Under the interstate compact, the U.S. state in which a conviction is based.
Sending state
Under the interstate compact, the state undertakes supervision.
Receiving state
A form of probation that stresses intensive monitoring, close supervision, and offender control.
Closer surveillance.
More conditions.
More treatment exposure.
Intensive supervision probation/parole
A diversion program for mentally ill defendants in which a judge, prosecutor, and probation officer play proactive roles and monitor the progress of clients through weekly visits to a courtroom.
Mental health courts
A device that measures erectile responses in male sex offenders to determine level of sexual arousal to various types of stimuli. This device is used for assessment and treatment purposes.
Penile Plethysmograph
A condition of probation or parole whereby the offender is not allowed within a certain range of places where children typically congregate such as schools, day care centers, and playgrounds.
Child safety zones
Termination of probation at any time during a probation period or after some time has been served.
Early termination
The process of hearings that results when a probationer is noncompliant with a current level of probation. Revocation results either in modifying probation conditions to a more intensive supervision level or a complete elimination of probation, with a sentence to a residential community facility, jail, or prison.
Revocation
When an offender commits a new misdemeanor or felony while being supervised on probation or parole for another offense.
Law violation
Behaviors that breach one or more noncriminal conditions of probation.
Technical violation
An offender under community supervision who, without prior permission, escapes or flees the jurisdiction he or she is required to stay within.
Absconder
An inquiry is conducted to determine whether there is probable cause that an offender has committed a probation or parole violation.
Preliminary hearing
A due process hearing must be conducted before probation or parole can be revoked.
Final revocation hearing
A recognition that laws must be applied in a fair and equal manner. Fundamental fairness.
Due process
A level of proof used in a probation revocation administrative hearing by which a judge decides guilt, based on which side presents more convincing evidence and its probable truth or accuracy, and not necessarily on the amount of evidence.
Preponderance of evidence
