Deck 11: Community Corrections

Question 1

Which term best describes when criminal justice programs pull more clients into the system than would otherwise be involved?

A) Net-widening
B) Inclusiveness
C) Community corrections
D) recidivism

Answer 1

Net-widening

Question 2

The United States has a bifurcated court process. The first goal is to determine if the defendant is guilty. What is the second?

A) Sentencing the convicted offender
B) Labeling the defendant
C) Acquitting the defendant
D) All of the above

Answer 2

Sentencing the convicted offender

Question 3

This is continuing to break the criminal law and returning to the criminal justice system after being processed for past offenses.

A) Repeat offending
B) Net-widening
C) Retribution
D) recidivism

Answer 3

recidivism

Question 4

Which is not true of intensive-supervision probation?

A) ISP clients have about four times as much contact with probation officers.
B) ISP clients are more likely to be required to participate in electronic home monitoring.
C) ISP clients are more likely to be brought before the court for technical violations.
D) ISP officers' caseloads are higher.

Question 5

Which is not a community corrections strategy?

A) Diversion program
B) Probation
C) parole
D) jail

Question 6

Probation is a sanction that the prosecutor can point to as a victory even though it requires little time or resources.

Question 7

The determination of probation risk is an internal management issue for probation departments and not a legal issue in which offenders are protected by the court.

Question 8

Conditions of parole are not significantly different from conditions of probation.