exam 4

Question 1

The criminal sanction of probation is most likely to occur in which location?

Answer 1

Community

Question 2

Considering all people under correctional supervision the majority are under which?

Answer 2

Probation

Question 3

Some individuals sentenced to probation may live at home, maintain work and educational responsibilities and attend community events.

Answer 3

True

Question 4

Most individuals sentenced to probation will have their case end in incarceration.

Answer 4

False

Question 5

Millions of Americans are on probation.

Answer 5

True

Question 6

Probation is most appropriate for which type of criminal offender?

Answer 6

First time, non-violent

Question 7

Probation is more costly than incarceration.

Answer 7

False

Question 8

Recidivism rates are comparable among those incarcerated or sentenced to probation.

Answer 8

True

Question 9

Which criminal justice actors provides community super vision to the offender and monitors that the conditions of probation are met?

Answer 9

Probation Officer

Question 10

Which criminal justice actors provides community super vision to offender returning to the community following a stay in prison and monitors that the conditions of probation are met?

Answer 10

Parole officer

Question 11

Probation and parole officers perform sometimes conflicting functions to provide supervision like that of law enforcement and assistance like that of social workers.

Answer 11

True

Question 12

Probation is primarily a function from which component of the criminal justice system?

Answer 12

Courts

Question 13

Parole is primarily a function from which component of the criminal justice system?

Answer 13

Corrections

Question 14

Probation and parole officers have discretionary decision making power.

Answer 14

True

Question 15

Overtime the volume of cases assigned to probation officer has increased.

Answer 15

True

Question 16

Probation may be revoked for a technical violation of a new arrest.

Answer 16

True

Question 17

Most people on probation will have their probation revoked.

Answer 17

False

Question 18

What is used in criminal justice setting to indicate the individual has failed to report or otherwise escaped detection from correctional supervision?

Answer 18

Abscond

Question 19

Revoking probation or parole requires two-step hearing where evidence is presented at the first hearing and the decision is presented at the second?

Answer 19

True

Question 20

What type of intermediate sanction is a monetary charge associated with criminal offense that is paid to criminal justice system?

Answer 20

Fine

Question 21

What type of intermediate sanction is a monetary repayment to the victimized entity that has experienced a financial loss as result of offense?

Answer 21

Restitution

Question 22

What time of intermediate sanction is a government seizure of property or assets that were from or used in criminal activity?

Answer 22

Forfeiture

Question 23

What time of intermediate sanction occurs outside jail/prison facilities and requires the individual to remain at home during specific periods of monitoring systems?

Answer 23

Home confinement

Question 24

Probation officers that provide intensive supervision have a larger caseload than probation officers that provide standard supervision and assitance.

Answer 24

False

Question 25

The intermediate sanction of community service may be tailored to be unique skills and ability of the convicted person.

Answer 25

True

Question 26

Programs like “like scared straight” which attempt to shock criminal behavior out of the individual are most aligned with which facilities?

Answer 26

Boot camp

Question 27

Most people in prison will return to the community at some point.

Answer 27

True

Question 28

Some states have experienced with specific facilities designed for pre release preparation from prison.

Answer 28

True

Question 29

What is most likely to follow incarceration and is the conditional release of a persons from incarceration but not from legal custody state?

Answer 29

Parole

Question 30

Parole may be revoked if the individuals does not meet the conditions of parole.

Answer 30

True

Question 31

An individual that has served the complete specified court sentence and is released from prison without conditions leaves prison under which type of release mechanism?

Answer 31

Expiration release

Question 32

What type of release from incarceration occurs when has served time equal to the total sentence minus good time?

Answer 32

Mandatory release

Question 33

The incarceration person, granted parole by the parole board, is released into the community using which type of release mechanism?

Answer 33

Discretionary release

Question 34

What is a temporary release of someone from a correctional institution for a visit home?

Answer 34

Furlough release

Question 35

What is a transitional facility for soon to be released incarcerated people that connects them to community services resources and support?

Answer 35

Halfway house

Question 36

What refers to the process of reducing prison population?

Answer 36

Decarceration

Question 37

Members of the parole board are often nominated by the governor.

Answer 37

Trues

Question 38

Generally, which criminal justice actor is tasked with a larger caseload relative to the others?

Answer 38

Probation officer

Question 39

There is a psychological transitional period as the formerly incarcerated person leaves the institutional setting of the prison and reenters the free world.

Answer 39

True