Exam 2 Flashcards
(9 cards)
Define Probation and intermediate Sanctions in detail
Probation: conditional release of convicted offenders under community supervision while the degree of supervision relies on the offenders risk level
Int. Sanctions: Sanctions more punitive than probation but not as restrictive as incarceration.
Discuss in detail a Probation revocation hearing
A revocation hearing is a due process hearing that must be conducted by a court or probation authority to determine whether the conditions of probation have been violated before probation can be revoked and the offender removed from the community
Know 8 types of intermediate sanctions
Drug court, economic sanctions, community service, day reporting centers, remote-location monitoring, residential centers, and boot camps
Discuss Community Corrections Acts (Nothing federal)
CCA’s are state laws that give economic grants to local communities to build a policy framework of science based supervision with focus of reducing the prisons population and better outcomes for people on community supervision
Know the # and Demographics of persons on probation Jan 1st 2017
in 2017 white outnumbered blacks by almost 50%
Discuss 4 goals of probations
- Carry out sanctions imposed by the court
- conduct risk-needs assessment to identify the level of supervision and services probationers need
- support crime victims by collecting information that describes the losses, suffering, and trauma experienced by a crime victim or by victims survivors
- Protect community by preparing the pre-sentence report (PSR) to assist judges and supervising offenders
Discuss 4 reasons to use probation as outlined by the authors
- Probation permits the offender to remain in the community for reintegration purposes
- Probation avoids prison institutionalization and the stigma of incarceration
- Less expensive, more humanitarian, at least effective as incarceration
- fair and appropriate for offenders whose crimes do not merit incarceration
Discuss John Augustus and his contribution to probation (10 significant things)
- Boston
- Shoemaker
- Washington total absences Society
- sensitive to Bostons vice or temperance laws
- Nations first unofficial PO
- won Probation for 2,000 adults and several thousand children
- Observed offenders for probations sentence (30 days)
- helped offenders with employment, education, housing
- investigated age, character, and work habits of each offender
- called the founder of probation
Know the dates and states of origin of Boot Camps, CCA, Drug Courts
Boot Camps: Oklahoma and Georgia 1983
CCA: Minnesota 1973
Drug Courts: Florida 1989
