Exam 4: Intermediate Sanctions

Prevailing evidence seems to support that judges use fines in a rational and reasonable way. 

_______________ is(are)designed to give offenders a sense of responsibility and accomplishments while improving self-discipline.

Restitution is the most popular model of restorative justice.

Benefits of graduated sanctions include certainty, celerity, proportionality, and ____________________.

A(An)____________________ proceeding is not an action against a violator but against the property involved.

An in rem proceeding is not an action against the property involved but against the violator involved.

Identify the elements of drug courts and their effectiveness.

Discuss forfeiture as defined by the RICO Act and the CCE Act.

Fines are at one end of the continuum of intermediate sanctions.

One reason for the emergence of ________________________in the 1980s was the belief that prisons were being overused for offenders who really did not need secure confinement.

______________________ is a court-imposed sentence ordering that an offender remain confined to his or her own residence for a specified amount of time.

Judge Ortiz is an administrative judge in the county who is holding a meeting to determine the effectiveness of the various sentencing options. He invites individuals who work with the various types of sentencing options to give their feedback. Officer Moll is the supervising probation officer in the county. Judge Ellis coordinates the drug court in the neighboring county. Ms. Howard runs the halfway house in the county. Captain Smith coordinates the boot camp in the county. Which type of offender is most likely accepted into Judge Ellis's drug court program?

One problem with fines is the:

Thomas is 18 years old and was found guilty of multiple counts of burglary and dealing in stolen property. He and three of his friends went on a spree of home burglaries where they took thousands of dollars' worth of property from their victims' homes. All of Thomas's acquaintances were juveniles and thus not of age to pawn items at the pawn shop. This is why Thomas was the one who got caught pawning the stolen items in a local pawn shop. During the sentencing phase of Thomas's trial, the victims say in open court that they do not want to see a young man sent to prison for many years. They would like to see him placed on probation but also compensate them for their losses, which they believe will teach Thomas some financial responsibility. What are the victims asking for?

Which of the following statements about boot camps is most accurate?

The Bureau of Prisons uses the house arrest sanction for inmates:

In the federal courts, the home confinement program is only used with pretrial defendants.

Since 2001, criminal forfeiture has been used to:

Intermediate sanctions are said to allow _______________ to match the severity of punishment with the severity of the crime.