Exam 6: Community Corrections: Probation and Intermediary Sanctions

According to the most recent statistics, ______ of probationers exited successfully.

What is the term for an increasing seriousness of a violation that is met with an increasing severity of punishment?

Probation in the United States initially began as a ______.

The Massachusetts legislature's authorization of Boston's hiring of probation officers in 1878 marked the beginning of ______.

Evaluate the benefits of victim-offender reconciliation programs (VORPs) for victims.

An individual within the community who dropped out of high school and does not have a job committed property theft. Some theorists would argue that this individual committed a crime due to lack of ______.

Which offender is most likely to be sent to a correctional boot camp?

According to the U.S. Marshals Service, ______ of people in the witness protection program are criminals.

According to research, boot camps ______ recidivism.

Which of the following is a benefit of intermediate sanctions in general?

According to the U.S. Marshals Service, ______ of people in the witness protection program commit crimes within a year of receiving a new identity.

Offenders ought to be thought of in terms of ______.

Why does the general public not approve of probation?

Many criminals have large stores of social capital.

Evaluate the relative benefits of probation, as opposed to imprisonment, for communities.

What effect did the National Probation Act of 1925 have?

You are a probation officer in a large inner city. Which of the following is likely to be a cause of stress for you?

Boot camps as a form of community corrections are generally unpopular with the public.

Provide at least two examples of job stressors identified by probation officers.

According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the median salary for probation officers is about ______ a year.