Exam 10: Probation and Community Corrections

If an offender chooses to attend drug court, they place themselves in the hands of a ____ who will enforce a mixture of treatment and sanctions in an attempt to cure their addiction.

Most of the rules of evidence that govern regular trials do not play a role in revocation hearings.

Intensive Supervision Probation (ISP) clients typically have lower violation rates than traditional probationers.

During the ____, if the presiding body rules against the probationer, the judge must then decide whether to impose incarceration and for what length of time.

Which of the following is true regarding intermediate sanctions?

What level of home monitoring requires offenders to be in their homes at specific hours, usually at night?

Community-based corrections are an important means of diverting criminals to alternative modes of punishment so that scarce incarceration resources are consumed by only the most dangerous criminals.

What is a judicially imposed condition in which an offender is sentenced after being convicted of a crime, but is not required to begin serving the sentence immediately?

During this hearing the probation agency presents evidence to support its claim of violation, and the probationer can attempt to refute this evidence.

With ____, the offender spends a certain amount of time each week, usually the weekends, in a jail, workhouse, or other government institution.

In this arrangement, an offender is sentenced to prison or jail with the understanding that after a period of time, he or she may petition the court to be released on probation.

In this appearance before a "disinterested person," the facts of a probation violation or arrest are presented, and it is determined whether probable cause for revoking probation exists.

Not every offender is eligible for probation.Identify five of the six conditions that would most likely make an offender ineligible for probation.

Which goal of corrections focuses on preparing the offender for a return to the community unmarred by further criminal behavior?

Probationers who commit technical violations are very likely to have their probation revoked.

Offenders sentenced to shock incarceration usually spend ____ in prison or jail before being released and resentenced to probation.

Forfeiture is a process by which the government seizes property gained from or used in criminal activity.

A process by which the government seizes private property attached to criminal activity is:

As a means to reverse patterns of self-destructive behavior, ____ conditions are imposed on the offender.

Offenders who successfully complete pretrial diversion have the charges pending against them dropped.