Exam 3 Flashcards
Focuses on the victim, the offender, and the community, rather than just punishing the offender.
Restorative justice
Structured face-to-face meetings between an offender and a victim in the presence of a mediator.
The goal is to develop an agreement to address how the offender will repair the harm he/she caused.
Victim-offender mediation
Circles are based on triple justice and rely on reintegrative shaming.
Sentencing circles
Unpaid labor on behalf of the public to compensate society for harm done by an offense of conviction.
Way to save money.
Community service
A fixed monetary sanction is defined by statute and imposed by a judge, depending on the seriousness of a crime.
Fine
A monetary amount is imposed by a court to assist in administering the criminal justice system through an offender’s repayment of the debt accrued by an investigation, prosecution, and supervision of a case.
Fee
A government seizure of property that has been illegally obtained, has been acquired with resources that were illegally obtained or has been used in connection with an illegal activity.
Happens after the conviction
Forfeiture
Process of preparing and integrating parolees into a community as law-abiding citizens.
Reentry
The shortest amount of time defined by statute, minus good-time earned, that must be served before an offender can go before a parole board.
Minimum eligibility date
The longest amount of time that can be served before an inmate must be released by law.
Maximum eligibility date
The point in a prisoner’s sentence in which he or she becomes eligible for parole. If an offender is denied parole, a new parole eligibility date is scheduled in the future.
Parole eligibility date
A case-management summary of offender institutional conduct and program participation as well as plans for housing and employment upon release, which is submitted to a parole board in cases of discretionary parole or to a parole officer in cases of automatic release.
Release plan
An administrative body empowered to revoke parole, to discharge from parole those who have satisfactorily completed their terms, and to decide whether inmates shall be conditionally released from prison before completion of their sentence.
Parole board
Fundamental knowledge and/or skills for a newly hired officer in preparation for working independently.
Preservice training
Periodic continuing education training for seasoned officers.
In-service training
The discretion inherent in the role of a probation and parole officer to treat clients fairly, consistently, and according to individual circumstances.
Role ambiguity
The two functions of a probation and parole officer that are sometimes contradictory and difficult to reconcile: (1) enforcing rules and laws and (2) providing support and reintegration.
Role conflict
Protection from legal action or liability unless workers engage in discretion that is intentionally and maliciously wrong.
Absolute immunity
Protection from liability in decisions or actions that are “objectively reasonable.”
Qualified immunity
Acts committed by juveniles that are punishable as crimes under a state’s penal code.
Juvenile delinquency
A process whereby a juvenile is screened to determine whether a case should proceed further in the juvenile justice system or whether alternatives are better suited for said juvenile.
Intake
Juvenile justice equivalent of a trial in adult criminal cases.
Adjucation
Juvenile justice equivalent of sentencing in adult cases.
Disposition
