Final Flashcards
Most common form of community supervision
Probation
Dynamic risk factor
Factor may change (employment status or economic status)
Static risk factors
Risk factors that won’t or don’t change (sex, race, past criminal history)
Focus of therapeutic communities
Focus on long term treatment(alcohol/ drug use)
Indeterminate sentencing
Somewhere between a certain time (5-10 years) passed into law
Determinate sentencing
A known time of sentence passed into law
Difference between probation & parole
Parole is given for somebody who has been guilt of a felony
Recidivism & measures of
Rearrests or new convictions
Who is John Augustus
father of modern day probation
Maximum eligibility date
Longest amount of time that can be served
Pretrial release programs
Those are for people who have been accused of crimes but not yet been convicted and those who have been arrested fir crimes
Sentencing
Post conviction stage where the defendant is brought to the court to be sentenced for a crime they committed
Functions of parole boards/who appoints them
This board decides who’s gonna be released early or parole revoked (governor appoints)
Goal of community corrections
Crime desistance (not to achieve retribution for the victim)
Risk/need/responsivity
What are their risks? What are their needs? What are their responsivity? To create a treatment for the defendant
Cognitive/Behavioral methods
Rehabilitation effects, most successful, giving them tools how to learn most to deal with problems
Elements of successful/not successful juvenile programs
Successful: psychological help
Not successful: discipline (long term)(boot camp), deterrence
Casework strategies for parolees
Accessing their criminogenic needs, scoring their risk and needs accurately
Successful re-entry methods for parolees
NOT: getting married
Effects of mixing low risk and high risk offenders together in programs
Not successful; increases recidivism from low risk
Administrative supervision
Lowest level of supervision
Caseload
Number of individuals you are supervising (varies)
Collateral contact
Contacts outside of just the person you are supervising(bosses/ neighbors)
Case Treatment plan
A treatment plan for the offender designed for them (what are things they are doing during probation/ parole)
Field contact
Considered to be the most time consuming part, field visits with probationers
Criminogenic needs
The factors that have led to you and you criminology
Antabuse
A drug that they give to alcoholics, it makes you sick if you drink alcohol
Methadone
Decrease the drug dependence on opiate drugs like heroine
Length of typical drug courts
One year(12-18 months)
Therapeutic communities
Focus on the long term treatment
Effects of mental illness on confinement costs
It’s two & half times greater for inmate with mental illness
PTSD
Veterans court/ veterans service members to treat them a little differently
Technical violations/ types of:
Not a crime were you not a probationer
Absconder
Off the map as a probationer
Mandatory minimum sentencing laws
Requires an offender to spend a certain time in prison
House arrest criticisms
(Aren’t expensive) they are cheap; increases domestic assault; are you really stopping them from committing a crime
Progressive sanctions
In house approaches; when the offender shows resistance or when technical violations start
Halfway houses/ history of/ uses
Started in 1950s/ a way to provide treatment but in a semi correctional system. Filled the gap between total freedom & incarceration.
