Exam 8: Community Corrections: Probation and Intermediary Sanctions

What is an example of social capital?

What is the relationship between work release programs and recidivism?

The average salary for probation officers is US$51,410 a year.

Name the three roles probation and parole officers can follow.

List the ways in which probation benefits communities as opposed to imprisonment.

Whites constitute about 55% of the adult probation population.

How does treatment coercion help offenders?

The first real probation system in which a reprieved person was supervised and helped was developed in the United States in the 1840s.

Since 2013, it cost almost ______ times more (more for women, juveniles, and the elderly) for imprisonment than for community supervision

What is shock probation?

In a VORP, who is responsible for monitoring the terms of the contract and scheduling further face-to-face meetings?

_____ is a country in which probation volunteers still dominate.

What are graduated sanctions and why were they developed.

What is the relationship between shock probation programs and recidivism?

Describe the judicial reprieve and the beginnings of the first real probation system.

Why do experienced offenders sometimes prefer prison to probation?

Upon receiving judicial reprieve, an offender's sentence is:

What are the most important job stressors identified by probation officers?

Studies found that 64% of offenders completed their work release and were successfully released.

For each offender placed on probation rather than incarcerated, taxpayers' save ______ per year.