Overview
These sanctions are designed to fall halfway between what two options?
What are probation and incarceration?
This type of intermediate sanction involves financial compensation to the victim or public fund.
What is financial restitution?
This type of electronic monitoring uses technology to track an offender's location.
What is GPS (Global Positioning Systems)?
This type of restorative justice meeting involves victims, offenders, and community members resolving issues.
What is community conferencing?
This financial sanction allows the state to confiscate property used in the commission of a crime.
What is forfeiture?
Intermediate sanctions were introduced in the 1980s for this main reason.
What is the belief that prisons were being overused?
This sanction confines an offender to their home for part or all of their sentence.
What is house arrest?
This type of sanction requires offenders to perform unpaid labor for the public good.
What is community service?
Judge Barry Stuart introduced this type of sentencing, where the community is involved in the justice process.
What is circle sentencing?
This type of fine is commonly used in Europe and adjusts based on the offender’s income.
What are day fines?
Name one of the three main reason intermediate sanctions emerged in the 1980s.
What is prison overcrowding? (overused/just deserts)
These courts are designed specifically for nonviolent offenders with substance abuse problems.
What are drug courts?
These centers are used as a last chance for offenders before they are sent to prison.
What are residential community centers?
This program involves family decision-making to stop family violence.
What is family group conferencing?
Forfeiture of property in this form can occur even without a criminal conviction.
What is civil forfeiture?
This sentencing structure, widely supported in the 1980s, contributed to the emergence of intermediate sanctions.
What is the "just deserts" sentencing structure?
This intermediate sanction is designed to equalize financial impacts on offenders based on income.
What are day fines?
These facilities require offenders to report daily for rehabilitative activities such as counseling.
What are day reporting centers (DRCs)?
This model involves making reparations to the victim and community and is referred to as the "Vermont Model."
What is reparative probation?
This type of financial punishment requires offenders to pay a sum of money directly to the victim.
What is financial restitution?
Who is typically administers of intermediate sanctions?
What are probation departments?
This military-style alternative to prison helps address overcrowding and demands for harsher treatment.
What are boot camps?
This type of sentencing involves serving part of the sentence in one sanction and the remainder in another.
What is split sentencing?
This conference model is designed to directly involve the offender in making amends for their crime.
What is victim-offender conferencing?
This term refers to financial penalties that require offenders to make payments to avoid being confined in "work release" centers.
What is financial restitution for offenders without resources?