Probation and parole officers enforce compliance with the terms of release and oversee the client's ________ for potential signs of danger to the community.
What is lifestyle?
100
When a defendant is offered an alternative to criminal trial and a possible prison sentence, it is called this
What is diversion?
100
The system in which decision making about parole is a function of a state department of corrections.
What is the consolidated model?
100
According to a 2014 report from the BJS, this percentage of prisoners, successfully complete parole.
What is 58%?
100
The amount good-time credit can a federal prisoner earn annually after completion of the first year of their sentence.
What is 54 days?
200
A _______ is imprisonment for violating a condition of probation.
What is a technical violation?
200
Another term used to denote probation is this.
What is suspended sentence?
200
Federal and state guidelines with which parolees (and probationers) must comply to meet their conditions of release.
What are standard conditions of release?
200
This person/group is responsible for deciding whether an inmate receives an early release from prison.
What is the parole board?
200
This is the number of pardons a governor can grant during their term.
What is there are no limitation to the number of pardons that a governor may grant?
300
The conditional release of a convicted offender before he or she serves any prison time is called this
What is probation?
300
Reduction in the severity or length of an inmate's sentence is called this.
What is commutation of sentence?
300
An early form of parole invented by Alexander Maconochie in which prisoners demonstrated their rehabilitation by earning points for good behavior.
What is the mark system?
300
The American parole system is based on this early system.
What is the Irish System?
300
This Boston shoemaker initiated the process that we now know as probation.
Who is John Augustus?
400
True or False: People on probation lose all their due process rights?
What is False
400
Pardons are sometimes referred to as this.
What is clemency or mercy?
400
The system in which decision making about parole is under the authority of an autonomous parole board.
What is the independent model?
400
The decision to revoke parole is initiated by this person.
Who is the supervising parole officer?
400
The annual cost to keep someone on probation for a year is this amount.
What is $3,347?
500
True or False: The U.S. Probation and Pretrial Services System provides federal judges with presentence reports to assist the judge in deciding if probation is appropriate.
What is True
500
When a prisoner has served the entire length of their maximum sentence, the requirement that they be released is called ________ release
What is mandatory?
500
Sir Walter Crofton pioneered the practice of ________ release for inmates, prior to completion of their sentences, based on good behavior.
What is conditional?
500
Prison authorities use the deduction of ________ time days to regulate nearly every aspect of the inmates' behavior
What is good?
500
Some probation and parole officers are authorized to carry these.