Probation and Parole
A sentencing alternative that requires offenders to spend at least part of their time working for a community agency.
Community Service
The legal status of prisoners in some jurisdictions who are denied the opportunity to vote, hold public office, marry, or enter into contracts by virtue of their status as incarcerated felons.
Civil Death
A correctional model intended to capitalize on the labor of convicts sentenced to confinement.
Industrial Prison
The first step in decision making for a juvenile who is believed to be in violation of laws.
Intake
A synthetic psychoactive substance often found at a nightclub, bars, raves, and dance parties.
Club Drug
Home confinement
House arrest
A wonton disregard by corrections personnel for the well-being of inmates, requires both actual knowledge that something of harm is occurring and disregard the risk of harm.
Deliberate Indifference
A system used by prison administrators to assign inmates to custody levels based on offense history, assessed dangerousness, perceived risk of escape, and other factors.
Classification System
a child who has engaged in activity that would be considered a crime, if the child were an adult.
Delinquent Child
The area surrounding a residence that can be reasonably said to be part of a residence for 4th amendment purposes.
Curtilage
The managed return to the community of an individual that is released from prison.
Reentry
a policy of non-intervention with regard to prison management that U.S. courts tended to follow until late 1960's
Hands-off Doctrine
The belief that correctional treatment programs have had little success in rehabilitating offenders.
Nothing-Works Doctrine
Allows the state to assume a parental role and to take custody of a child when they become delinquent.
parens patriae
The authorized seizure of money, negotiable instruments, securities, or other things of value.
Forfeiture
A court requirement that a convicted offender pay money or provide services to the victim of the crime.
Restitution
Prison Argot
An early form of imprisonment whose purpose was to instill habits of industry in the idle.
Workhouse
The decision of a juvenile court, concluding a dispositional hearing; that a juvenile be committed to a juvenile correctional facility.
Juvenile Disposition
The process by which criminals or their organizations seek to disguise the illicit nature of their proceeds.
Money Laundering
An act or a failure to act by a parolee that does not conform to the conditions of his or her parole.
Parole (probation) Violation
An enclosed facility separated from society both socially and physically, where the inhabitants share all aspects of their daily lives.
Total Institution
A policy that seeks to protect society by incarcerating individuals deemed to be the most dangerous
Selective Incapacitation
The fact-finding process by which the juvenile court determines whether there is sufficient evidence to sustain allegations in a petition.
Adjudicatory hearing
A federal statute that allows for federal seizure of assets derived from illegal enterprise.
RICO