Probation
Alternative Sanctions
Effective Intervention
Jails
Miscellaneous
100

Under this type of probation, offenders are placed under more conditions and are required to meet with their probation officer more frequently.

Intensive Supervision Probation (ISP)

100

This intermediate sanction includes housing offenders in the community, providing treatment services, and constant monitoring.

Community Residential Treatment Centers/Halfway Houses
100

Antisocial Attitudes, Criminal History, Substance Abuse, and Family/Marital Status are all examples of this.

Criminogenic needs/needs

100

Breaking jail populations down, this racial/ethnic groups makes up the bulk of the system.

White
100

This is any punishment for offenders that is more severe than probation, but less severe than prison.

Intermediate Sanctions
200

This person is considered the "father of probation"

John Augustus

200

This is a type of intermediate sanction that requires an offender to pay a fee based on his/her income and the severity of the offense.

Day Fines

200

The principles of effective intervention are based on information from...

Research/ "What works" research

200

This process is conducted at the sentencing stage and involves determining where offenders will be sent as well as recommend treatment/work assignments.

Initial Classification

200

One function of probation is to reduce the number of inmates in the correctional system. Instead, it has resulted in more people being under correctional control.

Net Widening

300

This practice influenced probation and involved stopping the imposition or execution of the sentence for the offender. It does not require any supervision.

Suspended Sentence

300
These are separate courts that specialize in handling specific groups of offenders.

Problem-Solving Courts

300

This principle of effective intervention is focused on providing offenders with treatment options that are consistent with the problems they have and that are related to their likelihood of committing crime.

The Need Principle

300

This style of supervision became more popular with the new-generation jails because it allowed more contact between offices and inmates

Direct Supervision

300

This is a solution to overcrowding that involves preventing offenders from contributing to the problem of prison overcrowding.

Front-End Solutions

400

Under this model of probation, probation officers are responsible for both general and public safety (rather than only ensuring the offenders they supervise don't commit crime) and conduct all supervision meetings in the field.

Broken Windows Model

400

These efforts can be at the police, community, or court level, can be formal or informal, but all attempt to prevent offenders from entering the criminal justice system.

Diversion Programs

400

This principle of effective intervention focuses on screening offenders and states that treatment should focus on offenders who are moderately to very likely to commit future crime.

The Risk Principle

400

One of the reasons that jails are overcrowded is because they are responsible for holding inmates that are waiting to be transferred to another facility, also known as...

Holdback inmates

400

The idea for modern prisons to provide inmates with meaningful work and programming is derived from this earlier style of prison.

Agricultural Prison/Prison Farms

500

This model of probation supervision is based on research in the field and asserts that probation officers should specialize in a group of offenders and only be focused on supporting the offenders under their care.

Proactive Supervision Model

500

Occasionally, a judge will increase sanctions or conditions imposed on an offender if the offender in non-compliant with the program. This is called..

Tourniquet Sentencing

500

This principle of effective intervention focuses on providing treatment that is most suitable to the learning of most offenders.

Responsivity Model

500

This type of supervision was commonly used in early jails.

Intermittent Supervision

500

This is a solution to overcrowding that focuses on building more cells to house inmates

Brick and Mortor Solution

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