Exam 2

Question 1

Define Probation and intermediate Sanctions in detail

Answer 1

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.

Question 2

Discuss in detail a Probation revocation hearing

Answer 2

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

Question 3

Know 8 types of intermediate sanctions

Answer 3

Drug court, economic sanctions, community service, day reporting centers, remote-location monitoring, residential centers, and boot camps

Question 4

Discuss Community Corrections Acts (Nothing federal)

Answer 4

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

Question 5

Know the # and Demographics of persons on probation Jan 1st 2017

Answer 5

in 2017 white outnumbered blacks by almost 50%

Question 6

Discuss 4 goals of probations

Answer 6

1. Carry out sanctions imposed by the court
2. conduct risk-needs assessment to identify the level of supervision and services probationers need
3. support crime victims by collecting information that describes the losses, suffering, and trauma experienced by a crime victim or by victims survivors
4. Protect community by preparing the pre-sentence report (PSR) to assist judges and supervising offenders

Question 7

Discuss 4 reasons to use probation as outlined by the authors

Answer 7

1. Probation permits the offender to remain in the community for reintegration purposes
2. Probation avoids prison institutionalization and the stigma of incarceration
3. Less expensive, more humanitarian, at least effective as incarceration
4. fair and appropriate for offenders whose crimes do not merit incarceration

Question 8

Discuss John Augustus and his contribution to probation (10 significant things)

Answer 8

1. Boston
2. Shoemaker
3. Washington total absences Society
4. sensitive to Bostons vice or temperance laws
5. Nations first unofficial PO
6. won Probation for 2,000 adults and several thousand children
7. Observed offenders for probations sentence (30 days)
8. helped offenders with employment, education, housing
9. investigated age, character, and work habits of each offender
10. called the founder of probation

Question 9

Know the dates and states of origin of Boot Camps, CCA, Drug Courts

Answer 9

Boot Camps: Oklahoma and Georgia 1983
CCA: Minnesota 1973
Drug Courts: Florida 1989