Exam 8: Parole: The Crucial Phase of Reentry

British Navy Captain Alexander Maconochie was appointed superintendent of the most severe British penal colony on Norfolk Island, Australia.

For the past decade the proportion of women on parole has held steady at 5 percent.

According to the U.S. Department of Justice, more than one-third of incoming prisoners are admitted for violating parole.

The evidence-based literature has shown that the term of incarceration loses its deterrent effect after a period of time, so continued incarceration is costly with few tangible benefits.

Superintendent of the penal colony on Norfolk Island, Australia was______:

In jurisdictions with______parole release, determinate sentencing statutes, good-time provision policies, and/or emergency release procedures determine when an inmate is paroled.

Most parolees are under supervision for which offenses?

Mark David Chapman, the man who shot and killed John Lennon in 1980, was paroled on August 12, 2008.

Probation is a period of conditional supervised release in the community following a prison term and may be either discretionary or mandatory.

The concept of parole in the United States can be traced back to 1655 colonial America, when colonial authorities were charged with supervising convicted felons who had been transported from England.

For the past decade the proportion of women on parole has held steady at______percent.

Of the parole violators returned to prison, approximately how many were returned for a technical violation?

The risk assessment instrument used by the United States Parole Commission is the:

Which one of the following is NOT a reason why some states abolished discretionary parole release?

The waiting period between hearings depends on the jurisdiction and______.

To manage their large caseloads, parole officers have increasingly tended to:

The Salient Factor Score is a series of ten static factors based on an objective scale through evidence- based research.

Parole revocation refers to the formal termination of an offender's freedom in the community.

In order to focus its state's limited financial resources on monitoring higher-risk, violent criminals released from prison, California recently launched:

Parole can be revoked if parolees violate a technical condition of parole or______.