Exam 8: Residential Community Supervision Programs

In general, eligible candidates for boot camps are young repeat felony offenders convicted of various types of nonviolent offenses, and who meet minimum physical requirements.

The CREST program combines a therapeutic community program with

It is important for boot camps to provide _____, in order to facilitate learning retention.

Halfway houses are residential facilities for various types of offenders, including which of the following?

The CREST program combines a(n) _____ with a work release program.

Which of the following offenders would NOT be best served by a jail work release program?

Violent offenders and _________ offenders are often not permitted to participate in work release programs.

Residential community corrections facilities (RCCFs) cost less than jail or prison because

Community-based punishments that provide more freedom than prison but less freedom than traditional probation are known as __________ sanctions.

Offenders who are on work release and leave a work site or do not return on time will

Compare and contrast work release programs with restitution centers.

Beginning in the 1950s, halfway houses in the United States began to provide

___________ could be considered both a type of institutional corrections and a community corrections program, given that offenders reside in a facility (a community facility, jail, or prison) but are released to the community for a short duration every day to work, attend education classes, or both.

A work ethic camp is an alternative to prison that teaches job skills and decision making using a cognitive-behavioral approach, followed by intensive supervision probation.

Boot camps are a type of __________.

You are a juvenile judge in Nevada who has many different options open to you: work release, boot camps, and shock incarceration. Do you think one of these is more effective for young offenders than the other two? Why? Will your decisions depend on the type of offense committed? How?

In general, have RCCFs been successful in lowering recidivism rates in the United States? Use details from the text to justify your answer.

Sex offenders are not permitted to reside in halfway houses.

Military-style boot camps are both widely popular and widely proven to be successful.

You are a state legislator who is planning to build a new RCCF. The question is whether it should be mixed gender, or only for women. You have to convince your constituents whether you believe RCCFs for women are unfair to men or not. Discuss their purpose and history in your argument.