Community-Based Corrections Programs: Justifications and Implementation

1. Chapter 12 Probation and Community Corrections

2. Learning Outcomes LO1: Explain the justifications for community-based corrections programs. LO2: Describe the three general categories of conditions placed on a probationer. LO3: Explain the three stages of probation revocation. LO4: List the five sentencing options for a judge besides imprisonment and probation. LO5: List the three levels of home monitoring.

3. Explain the justifications for community-based corrections programs.

4. Learning Outcome 1 Reintegration • Preparing offenders to return to the community unmarred by further criminal behavior. Diversion • Diverting those who qualify away from prison and jail and toward community-based intermediate sanctions. The Low-Cost Alternative • The high cost of incarceration is a strong motivator for some to support community-based corrections.

5. Learning Outcome 1 Probation • Most common form of punishment in the U.S. • Theory – some offenders can be treated more economically and humanely while living in the community.

7. Learning Outcome 1 Sentencing choices and probation: • Suspended sentences • Alternative sentencing choices • Split sentences • Shock incarceration • Intermittent incarceration

9. Learning Outcome 1 Offenders are most likely denied probation if they: • Are convicted on multiple charges • Were on probation or parole at the time of arrest • Have two or more prior convictions • Are addicted to narcotics • Seriously injured the victim of the crime • Used a weapon in the commission of the crime

10. Describe the three general categories of conditions placed on a probationer.

11. Learning Outcome 2 The principles of probation include: • The rehabilitation of the offender • The protection of the community

12. Learning Outcome 2 Conditions of probation: • Standard conditions • Imposed on all probationers • Punitive conditions • Designed to reflect the seriousness of the offense and increase punishment • Treatment conditions • Designed to help the offender with issues that may contribute to criminal activity

13. Learning Outcome 2 The supervisory role of the probation officer: • Conducting the presentence investigation • Supervising offenders as soon as they have been sentenced • The ideal relationship between probationer and probation officer is based on trust. In the absence of trust, this relationship is based on authority.

14. Explain the three stages of probation revocation.

15. Learning Outcome 3 Revocation of probation: • Probation ends in one of two ways • the probation completes the requirements of probation • or the probationer fails to meet the requirements and probation is revoked.

16. Learning Outcome 3 Technical Violations: • Probation may be revoked because of a new offense, or… • Because a probationer committed a technical violation. • Technical violations do not always result in revocation. The probation officer must make a “judgment call.”

17. The revocation process: The preliminary hearing The revocation hearing The revocation sentencing Learning Outcome 3

18. Probationer Rights: Mempa v. Ray (1967) Morrisey v. Brewer (1972) Gagnon v. Scarpelli (1973) Learning Outcome 3

19. Learning Outcome 3 Does probation work? • The hybrid approach • The caseload dilemma • The average probation officer has a caseload of 175 clients.

20. List the five sentencing options for a judge besides imprisonment and probation.

21. Learning Outcome 4 Intermediate Sanctions: • Provide a number of additional sentencing options. • More supervision than probation, but less harsh than imprisonment.

22. Learning Outcome 4 Judicially Administered Intermediate Sanctions: • Fines • Community Service • Restitution • Forfeiture • Pretrial Diversion Programs

23. Learning Outcome 4 Day Reporting Centers: community based corrections center where offenders report daily for purposes of treatment, education, and incapacitation. Intensive Probation Supervision: a more restrictive alternative to regular probation. Typified by more supervision and smaller caseloads.

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25. Learning Outcome 4 Shock Incarceration: judges sentence an individual to a period of time in an institution, many of which resemble an army boot camp. Home Confinement and Electronic Monitoring: offenders are required to spend extended periods of time confined to their homes, sometimes administered in conjunction with electronic monitoring.

26. List the three levels of home monitoring.

27. Learning Outcome 5 Levels of Home Monitoring: • Curfew • Home detention • Home incarceration Types of Electronic Monitoring: • Programmed contact • Continuously signaling

28. Learning Outcome 5 Net Widening: • As more and more alternatives to incarceration are used, the criminal justice system can expand the number of people that can come under its supervision.

29. Learning Outcome 5 The Paradox: • The more effectively offenders are controlled, the more likely they are to be caught violating the terms of their conditional release

30. Learning Outcome 5 The Quicksand Effect: • Instead of helping offenders leave the corrections system, increased surveillance pulls them more deeply into it.