Exam 5: Probation and Community Supervision

By this date, all states had enacted probation statutes for juveniles and adults.

The average time people spend on probation nationwide is about

For offenders in residential community corrections facilities, research shows that ________ is a key factor in their success.

________ are/is widely used in many countries throughout the world as the primary means of punishment, but in the United States this sanction is mostly reserved for traffic and ordinance violations.

Today, halfway houses are called therapeutic communities.

As a condition of his probation, Stefan must check in daily with a nonresidential community corrections program that blends high levels of control with the delivery of specific services that Stefan needs. Stefan is participating in a(n) ________ program.

Which of the following is an example of a special rather than standard probation condition?

Which of the following is NOT a supervision strategy used by probation officers for surveillance?

A standard condition of probation is to get permission from one's probation officer before leaving the jurisdiction.

Match the following terms with their meanings. -Relapse prevention

Probation officers may collect urine specimens from their clients without first obtaining a warrant or without having to believe there is probable cause that the probationer has recently used drugs.

Match the following terms with their meanings. -Legal violation

Match the following terms with their meanings. -Standard probation conditions

Global positioning system (GPS) technology significantly improves the capabilities of electronic monitoring (EM). Some people have even suggested we can now track the movements of offenders being supervised in the community better than we can those confined to prison. Provide reasons for and against dramatically increasing the use of EM with GPS technology as a means of placing fewer violent offenders in prison and more of them under community supervision.

When a probation officer interviews convicted felons and gathers information prior to the sentencing of that offender, the probation officer is serving as a(n) ________ investigator.

Which of the following is NOT a benefit of community-based sanctions?

Match the following terms with their meanings. -Mental health courts

Problem-solving courts are an alternative process to traditional criminal courts for people who have violated conditions of their probation.

If the probationer repeatedly fails to abide by any of the court-ordered conditions of probation, they are said to have committed a technical violation.

Compensation is a court-ordered cash payment that an offender makes to the victim to offset some of the losses incurred from the crime.