Exam 5: Case Management Using Riskneedsresponsivity

The elements of neighborhood-based supervision include assignment of offenders according to type of offense perpetrated, required church participation, required full-time employment for all offenders, and total abstention from alcohol for all probationers.

Women under community supervision have usually entered the criminal justice system because of a crime they committed alongside a male partner.

The __________ was the original agreement providing for the supervision of probationers and parolees in states other than where they were convicted.

You are a clerk for a judge who would like to determine risk assessment with the OHIO system, but needs a brief on the benefits and drawbacks of the system. Your recommendation is likely to be implemented in the coming year. Write a brief describing the possible drawbacks with using the OHIO Risk Assessment System, and its strengths. Include in your brief an analysis of how it is currently applied to assessment throughout the country.

You are an African American female judge and have seen both racial and gender bias at work in the district you work in, which is the next district over from where you grew up. You have been asked to write a blog for a respected website about the impact of gender or race in decisions to grant supervision outside of the jurisdiction where a crime occurred. In your blog, justify your opinion with statistics.

The _____ is an agreement that allows probationers and parolees to be supervised across state lines.

A ____________ plan includes the main goals the offender will work on during probation/parole, how the offender must pursue those goals, the strengths the offender has to draw upon, and how the officer can help the offender meet those goals.

Although risk and need assessment is ideally objective, human bias often comes into play. You are a judge who went to West Point and has respect for veterans. When a case comes before you of a drug-addicted offender with PTSD, your sympathies are with the defendant, although he could be a risk to society. What can be done to assure that your risk and need assessment are fair and just?

Criminal history is a static risk factor.

The effectiveness of neighborhood-based supervision rests in part on the officer being able to secure the assistance and cooperation of _________ agencies and individuals within his or her beat.

Compare and contrast NBS with traditional community supervision. In what situations might NBS be most useful? Are there any situations in which traditional supervision would be more useful?

Each new client under community supervision must first be interviewed.