Exam 1: An Overview of Community Corrections: Goals and Evidence-Based Practices

_____ require an offender to serve a specified portion of his or her sentence prior to release.

According to the text, the most common form of community supervision is probation.

Correctional policy is in many ways a(n) ____________, because it shifts according to the tide of public perception and what is important to vocal constituents and public interest groups.

In 1975, _________ was the first state to return to a philosophy of determinate sentencing.

You are in charge of a community corrections facility, and are responsible to explain to your Board of Directors your success rate. Influential donors are starting to question the rate of recidivism. You have to convince the donors that there are other measures of the success of your program. What will you say at the board meeting?

_______ is the discretionary release of an offender before the expiration of his or her sentence under conditions established by the releasing authority.

The basis of effective rehabilitation is the theory of risk, need, and _______.

The _____ assumes at a basic level that offender compliance and active participation are integral to the offender's own success on community supervision.

Community service, house arrest, day fines, and boot camps are examples of ____________________.

_____________ was also used as a backdoor strategy for controlling the prison population.

________ refers to any activity or program that is conducted to prepare parolees for safe return to the community and for living as law-abiding citizens.

Robert Martinson, a social scientist tasked with examining prison programming in the United States during the 1960s, determined that correctional rehabilitation programs were effective at reducing recidivism.

Specific deterrence attempts to deter the general public from committing specific types of crime.

Recidivism can be measured through rates of rearrest, reconviction, or reincarceration.

The philosophy of allowing the offender to remain in the community with the responsibility of repairing the injustice caused to the victim is ___________________.

What are "evidence-based practices?" What factors will determine their success in the public eye?

How does a "continuum of sanctions" work in the sentencing process? How should judges apply this continuum?

Specific deterrence, rehabilitation, and restorative justice are important components in changing offenders' attitudes and behaviors, leading to the prevention of criminal behavior.

The most common form of community corrections is ________, which is the release of an offender under conditions imposed by the court for a specified period of time. The court retains the authority to modify the conditions or to resentence the offender if he or she violates the conditions.

_____ deterrence assumes that offenders who are already under community supervision will refrain from committing new crimes or technical violations if they feel that the costs outweigh the benefits.