Exam 14: Juvenile Corrections

Supervision includes surveillance, casework services, and counseling or guidance.

________, or juvenile aftercare, as it is usually called, is concerned with the release of a youth from an institution when he or she can best benefit from release and can make an optimal adjustment to community living.

In ________ programs youngsters spend each day in the program and then return home in the evenings.

Investigation requires that probation officers prepare a social history report on a youth ruled delinquent to aid the judge in making the correct disposition.

The basic forms of community-based ________ are probation, residential and day-treatment programs, and aftercare.

Match each type of available institutional placement with its description. -Boot camp

The ________ of aftercare involves the cancellation of parole and return of the offender to an institution. It takes effect if a juvenile on aftercare commits another offense or violates the conditions of parole.

A ________ report is a written report of a juvenile's social background that probation officers prepare for a juvenile judge to assist the court in making a disposition of a youth who has been ruled delinquent.

A ________ is a public or private juvenile correctional institution that is usually less secure than a training school and that has a more normal atmosphere.

Juvenile ________ refers to the supervision of juveniles who are released from correctional institutions so that they can make an optimal adjustment to community living.

________ refers to a home setting for juveniles who are lawfully removed from their birth parents' homes.

A(n) ________ compact is sometimes initiated when a youth has no acceptable home placement within his or her own state.

There is sufficient evidence to support the belief that institutionalization has a questionable impact on residents and may even contribute to high rates of recidivism. Why do you think this is? Please explain.

Match each term or concept with its description. -Surveillance

The purpose of reception and diagnostic centers, which are managed and operated by either public or private agencies, is to determine which treatment plan suits each adjudicated youth and which training school is the best placement.

During the intake stage of court proceedings, the probation officer ________.

Which of the following is NOT a form of community-based corrections?

A ________ is a military-style facility used as an alternative to prison in order to deal with prison crowding and public demands for severe punishment.

The term ________ refers to the social hierarchy that is established by residents in an institution.

A social history report is ordered by a sheriff or police chief when a youth is found delinquent at the fact-finding stage of investigation.