Deck 8: Community Corrections: Probation and Intermediary Sanctions

Question 1

Upon receiving judicial reprieve, an offender's sentence is:

A) suspended for a set period of time
B) suspended pending good behavior
C) commuted
D) delayed for a limited period

Answer 1

B

Question 2

For each offender placed on probation rather than incarcerated, taxpayers' save ______ per year.

A) US$25,000
B) US$35,000
C) US$50,000
D) none of these

Answer 2

A

Question 3

Since 2013, it cost almost ______ times more (more for women, juveniles, and the elderly) for imprisonment than for community supervision

A) 7
B) 9
C) 11
D) 13

Answer 3

B

Question 4

What percentage of offenders received technical violations when supervised by a treatment-oriented officer?

A) 5%
B) 13%
C) 33%
D) 43%

Question 5

What is the relationship between corrections boot camps and recidivism?

A) They are effective
B) They increase recidivism
C) They are ineffective
D) They have not yet been properly assessed

Question 6

What is the relationship between shock probation programs and recidivism?

A) They reduce recidivism
B) They increase recidivism
C) They do not reduce recidivism
D) They have not yet been properly assessed

Question 7

What is the relationship between work release programs and recidivism?

A) They reduce recidivism
B) They increase recidivism
C) They do not reduce recidivism
D) They have not yet been properly assessed

Question 8

Probation and parole officers can follow a "third" role, which follows what approach?

A) Hybrid
B) Profiler
C) Investigator
D) Social worker

Question 9

Satisfaction reports from victims involved with VORPs indicate:

A) reduced fear
B) increased insight in reasons why they were victimized
C) appreciation in getting to tell offender how they were affected
D) all of these

Question 10

The restorative justice model is drive by

A) the offender.
B) the offender and the victim.
C) the offender, the victim, and the community.
D) the offender, the victim, the community, and the justice system

Question 11

Many crime victims seek _____ as defined by them

A) fairness
B) justice
C) restitution
D) all of these

Question 12

In a VORP, who is responsible for monitoring the terms of the contract and scheduling further face-to-face meetings?

A) the victim
B) the offender
C) the mediator
D) the judge

Question 13

VORPs are used most often for which types of offenders?

A) violent juvenile offenders
B) violent adult offenders
C) nonviolent juvenile offenders
D) nonviolent adult offenders

Question 14

A system of justice that gives approximately equal weight ot community protection, offender accountability, and offender competency is referred to as

A) incapacitation
B) restorative justice
C) rehabilitation
D) victims rights

Question 15

Under shock probation programs, offenders are typically send to prison for _____ days.

A) 14
B) 30
C) 45
D) 60

Question 16

Work release is also used for _____ parolees.

A) incapacitation
B) reintegrating
C) deterring
D) rehabilitation

Question 17

_____ is a country in which probation volunteers still dominate.

A) The United States
B) China
C) Canada
D) Japan

Question 18

What is an example of social capital?

A) education
B) employment
C) prosocial network
D) all of these

Question 19

One of the most important job stressors for probation and parole officers are

A) psychological withdrawal
B) frequent absenteeism
C) high turnover
D) all of these

Question 20

There were fewer than two million Americans on probation in 2014

Question 21

Studies found that 64% of offenders completed their work release and were successfully released.

Question 22

The first real probation system in which a reprieved person was supervised and helped was developed in the United States in the 1840s.

Question 23

The average salary for probation officers is US$51,410 a year.

Question 24

Whites constitute about 55% of the adult probation population.

Question 25

Why do experienced offenders sometimes prefer prison to probation?

Question 26

List the ways in which probation benefits communities as opposed to imprisonment.

Question 27

How does treatment coercion help offenders?

Question 28

What are the most important job stressors identified by probation officers?

Question 29

What is judicial reprieve?

Question 30

Name the three roles probation and parole officers can follow.

Question 31

What is shock probation?

Question 32

Why do we need community corrections? In your response, discuss the reasons the book gave, but also discuss which reason(s) you believe in and why.

Question 33

Describe the judicial reprieve and the beginnings of the first real probation system.

Question 34

What are graduated sanctions and why were they developed.