SENTENCING
TYPES OF SENTENCES
Capital Punishment
Probation
Probation Officers
100

This involves the payment of a debt to both the victim and society.

Retribution.

100

A financial penalty used as a criminal sanction.

Fine.

100

In the U.S. the only crime a person can be executed for?

Capital Crime

100

One reason probation is used is because it less ___________ and more humanitarian than incarceration.

Expensive

100

This activity requires the probation officer to interview the defendant and complete a PSR.

Case Investigation.

200

Social scientists believe criminal punishment is necessary to maintaining this.

Social order.

200

This method of supervision controls offenders in the community under strict conditions and frequent reporting to a probation officer.

Intensive Supervision Probation

200

This method of execution was last used in Utah in 1977.

Firing squad

200

This refers to the repetition of criminal behavior sometimes referred to rearrest.

Recidivism.

200

This includes an estimated degree of risk to the community, a summary of information of criminal history and a sentence recommendation for the defendant.

Presentence report

300

The prevention of offenders from committing further crimes by removing them from society either on a temporary or permanent basis.

Incapacitation.

300

This type of punishment is a lawful imposition of death for a convicted offender.

Capital Punishment.

300

This method of execution uses a three drug mixture sedate and paralyze the muscles of the condemned and then potassium chloride to stop the heart.

Lethal injection.

300
Probation is a ____________ release of a convicted offender into the community under the supervision of a probation officer.

Conditional

300

This technological innovation allows probationers to check in using a kiosk that requires facial recognition and biometric identifiers.

Probation Automated Management system

400

The discouragement or prevention of crimes through the fear of punishment, or the punishment of others.

Deterrence.

400

A sentence condemning a convicted offender to spend the rest of their life in prison.

Life Sentence or Life Without Parole.

400

When this occurs, a condemned person is freed from death row. 

Exonerated

400

This allowed each federal district court to appoint one paid probation officer in 1925.

National Probation Act

400

This due process requirement must be conducted before a person on probation can legally have their probation revoked.

revocation hearing

500

This is given to convicted offenders as a penalty by the court.

Sentence.

500

This statute mandates a life sentence for those with two previous serious criminal offenses.

Three strikes law.

500

In this case, the defendant appealed his sentence which was overturned stating his 8th Amendment Right was violated because the sentencing authority had complete discretion with no guidance on the application of the death penalty.

Furman v. Georgia

500

This organization was devoted to promoting abstinence from drinking of which John Augustus was a member.

Washington Total Abstinence Society.

500

This type of violation occurs when a person has failed to comply with the conditions of probation.

Technical violation