Deck 13: Issues in Community Supervision

Question 1

_________ are infractions of the rules of supervision that do not involve any new criminality.

A) Technical violations
B) Supervision fees
C) Shock incarcerations
D) Split sentences

Answer 1

A

Question 2

What are three of the main goals of community supervision?

A) Controlling risk, reducing incarceration and costs, and rehabilitating offenders
B) Controlling risk, employing officers, and rehabilitating offenders
C) Employing officers, rehabilitating offenders, and matching punishments to offenders
D) Controlling risk, reducing incarceration and costs, and matching punishments to offenders

Answer 2

D

Question 3

The ________ requires each supervising officer to complete a risks and needs assessment and then review the results with the offender.

A) Restitution system
B) Team supervision system
C) Model case management system
D) Kiosk reporting system

Answer 3

C

Question 4

__________ seek to provide more control and service to offenders who otherwise would be incarcerated.

A) Intermediate sanctions
B) Intensive supervision programs
C) Shock incarceration programs
D) Day reporting programs

Question 5

Which of the following strategies of intensive supervision have been developed?

A) Closer monitoring without providing additional services to offenders
B) Providing evidence-based treatment in coordination with decreased caseloads
C) Linking intensive supervision with swift and certain consequences for failing to comply with supervision conditions
D) All of the above

Question 6

This implementation paid counties for each offender not sentenced to prison in each county.

A) The Probation Subsidy Act
B) Community corrections legislation
C) Supervision fees
D) Restitution

Question 7

This model expected the single officer to be capable of providing needed services to all of the offenders.

A) The team supervision model
B) The model case management system
C) Transition from Prison to the Community (TPC) case management model
D) The casework model

Question 8

This management model is comprised of three phases: the institutional phase, the release phase, and the community phase.

A) The team supervision model
B) The model case management system
C) Transition from Prison to the Community (TPC) case management model
D) The casework model

Question 9

______ is a penalty that is divided between a period of incarceration and a period of probationary supervision.

A) Intensive supervision
B) Split sentencing
C) Net widening
D) Shock parole

Question 10

What are the two dimensions needed when matching punishments to offenders?

A) Severity of the punishment and public exposure to the punishment
B) Punishments should be sensitive to the needs of specific offenders and should be conducted within the confines of prison only
C) Severity of the punishment and punishments should be sensitive to the needs of specific offenders
D) All offenders can be effectively treated with the same severity of punishment.

Question 11

Overall, research on intensive supervision has failed to show a clear benefit to reduced caseloads.

Question 12

The initial and replacement costs of GPS monitoring are low.

Question 13

From 2005-2015, the number of individuals under electronic supervision increased more than 150%.

Question 14

In some states, the inmate could petition the court for shock probation.

Question 15

Boot camps reduce rates of new crime by program graduates.

Question 16

Split sentences are rarely used.

Question 17

Shock probation and parole, split sentencing, and ISPs blur the distinction between incarceration and community supervision.

Question 18

GPS monitoring systems can track inside large buildings and subways.