Exam 10: Residential, Day Reporting, and Drug Courts: Offenders Living Among Us

Punitive sentencing practices that call for______as a sentencing goal change the focus from "fixing the offender" to a more complex recognition of shared responsibility between offender and community.

A comparison study in Michigan showed the per-day cost of prison to be much less ($35.00) versus residential programs ($64.00).

An offender's ability to secure and maintain______alleviates financial pressures and allows the offender to pay taxes, child support, and restitution.

Aggression Replacement Training (ART) is a multi-modal intervention originally designed to reduce anger and violence among adolescents involved with juvenile justice systems.

Day-reporting centers (DRCs) are much more costly to operate than residential correctional programs.

Cognitive-behavioral therapy is based on the idea that offenders think differently than non-offenders, either because of a lack of moral reasoning or through dysfunctional information processing.

The goals of a day-reporting center (DRC) include rehabilitating the offender through intensive programming, providing punishment in a cost-effective way, and ensuring community safety. TRUE

Specific employment-related barriers to successful reintegration include______.

A day-reporting center (DRC) is a nonresidential, community-based corrections program, typically for non-violent offenders.

In the drug court model, the______phase typically involves individual and group counseling and other core and adjunctive therapies.

Robert Martinson reviewed 231 studies on correctional interventions and concluded that

A positive aspect of residential corrections over prison is that residents working in the community can also pay restitution and complete community service work.

Halfway houses are designed to reintegrate persons released from prison or jail back into the community.

Research has shown that drug courts are associated with reduced recidivism by participants and result in cost savings.

The most widely recognized behavior-management approach for offenders is referred to as ______.

Which of the following is NOT a typical requirement of drug court participants?

______ is a process in which the frequency of crimes decelerates and exhibits less variety.

______ is a special courtroom dedicated to providing substance abuse treatment to individuals under close supervision of a judge.

______ emphasizes the concepts of normality, community involvement, and re-socialization for offenders transitioning from institutions to the community.

The work of______in the 1970s served as the opening for policymakers to abandon existing ideas of rehabilitation.