Final

Question 1

Most common form of community supervision

Answer 1

Probation

Question 2

Dynamic risk factor

Answer 2

Factor may change (employment status or economic status)

Question 3

Static risk factors

Answer 3

Risk factors that won’t or don’t change (sex, race, past criminal history)

Question 4

Focus of therapeutic communities

Answer 4

Focus on long term treatment(alcohol/ drug use)

Question 5

Indeterminate sentencing

Answer 5

Somewhere between a certain time (5-10 years) passed into law

Question 6

Determinate sentencing

Answer 6

A known time of sentence passed into law

Question 7

Difference between probation & parole

Answer 7

Parole is given for somebody who has been guilt of a felony

Question 8

Recidivism & measures of

Answer 8

Rearrests or new convictions

Question 9

Who is John Augustus

Answer 9

father of modern day probation

Question 10

Maximum eligibility date

Answer 10

Longest amount of time that can be served

Question 11

Pretrial release programs

Answer 11

Those are for people who have been accused of crimes but not yet been convicted and those who have been arrested fir crimes

Question 12

Sentencing

Answer 12

Post conviction stage where the defendant is brought to the court to be sentenced for a crime they committed

Question 13

Functions of parole boards/who appoints them

Answer 13

This board decides who’s gonna be released early or parole revoked (governor appoints)

Question 14

Goal of community corrections

Answer 14

Crime desistance (not to achieve retribution for the victim)

Question 15

Risk/need/responsivity

Answer 15

What are their risks? What are their needs? What are their responsivity? To create a treatment for the defendant

Question 16

Cognitive/Behavioral methods

Answer 16

Rehabilitation effects, most successful, giving them tools how to learn most to deal with problems

Question 17

Elements of successful/not successful juvenile programs

Answer 17

Successful: psychological help
Not successful: discipline (long term)(boot camp), deterrence

Question 18

Casework strategies for parolees

Answer 18

Accessing their criminogenic needs, scoring their risk and needs accurately

Question 19

Successful re-entry methods for parolees

Answer 19

NOT: getting married

Question 20

Effects of mixing low risk and high risk offenders together in programs

Answer 20

Not successful; increases recidivism from low risk

Question 21

Administrative supervision

Answer 21

Lowest level of supervision

Question 22

Caseload

Answer 22

Number of individuals you are supervising (varies)

Question 23

Collateral contact

Answer 23

Contacts outside of just the person you are supervising(bosses/ neighbors)

Question 24

Case Treatment plan

Answer 24

A treatment plan for the offender designed for them (what are things they are doing during probation/ parole)

Question 25

Field contact

Answer 25

Considered to be the most time consuming part, field visits with probationers

Question 26

Criminogenic needs

Answer 26

The factors that have led to you and you criminology

Question 27

Antabuse

Answer 27

A drug that they give to alcoholics, it makes you sick if you drink alcohol

Question 28

Methadone

Answer 28

Decrease the drug dependence on opiate drugs like heroine

Question 29

Length of typical drug courts

Answer 29

One year(12-18 months)

Question 30

Therapeutic communities

Answer 30

Focus on the long term treatment

Question 31

Effects of mental illness on confinement costs

Answer 31

It’s two & half times greater for inmate with mental illness

Question 32

PTSD

Answer 32

Veterans court/ veterans service members to treat them a little differently

Question 33

Technical violations/ types of:

Answer 33

Not a crime were you not a probationer

Question 34

Absconder

Answer 34

Off the map as a probationer

Question 35

Mandatory minimum sentencing laws

Answer 35

Requires an offender to spend a certain time in prison

Question 36

House arrest criticisms

Answer 36

(Aren’t expensive) they are cheap; increases domestic assault; are you really stopping them from committing a crime

Question 37

Progressive sanctions

Answer 37

In house approaches; when the offender shows resistance or when technical violations start

Question 38

Halfway houses/ history of/ uses

Answer 38

Started in 1950s/ a way to provide treatment but in a semi correctional system. Filled the gap between total freedom & incarceration.