Philosophy
Hanging a horse thief to discourage others from stealing horses expresses which philosophy?
General Deterrence
This program type depends on correctional resources available in the community to assist the offender in seeking help and abiding by certain conditions.
Community Corrections
This investigative report is an informational source on which judges base their sentencing decision for adult felony offenses.
Presentence
He was an eighteenth-century Italian criminologist who believed that punishment should be used only for good.
Cesare Beccaria
By the end of this time period in England, punishment had become less cruel and moved toward exhibitory punishments such as stocks and pillories.
The Middle Ages
This term describes people who favor the elimination of the death penalty in modern-day society.
Abolitionists
This treatment can be effectively used in prisons, outpatient community programs, and residential community programs
Cognitive Behavioral Treatment
This seeks "just deserts" for the offender, seeks equity of punishment, and is a formal penal sanction
Retribution
As a condition of her probation, the judge has ordered Chris to labor in unpaid work for the general good of the community. This sanction is called
Community Service
The Minnesota sentencing guidelines use these two major factors in the calculation of a sentence.
Crime Severity & Criminal History
This may be given to an inmate on a case-by-case basis for those who may be permanently incapacitated or do not have long to live. The inmate must pose no danger to the community.
Compassionate Release
In the late twentieth century, prison programs were more likely to emphasize this type of philopophy
Restorative Justice Procedures
When determined to have committed an act that would otherwise be a crime, rather than being found guilty of a crime, juveniles are...
Adjudicated Delinquent
This time credit is received as the result of good behavior or program participation
Earned Good Time
Which correctional goal is accomplished when an individual offender creates a new life with changed thinking and behaviors?
Rehabilitation
This supervision strategy is used by probation officers for surveillance of someone that remains in his or her residence for all or part of the day.
Home Confinement
The use of ________ factors is a strategy that allows judges to increase sentences because of special conditions.
Aggravating
He is often considered the greatest prison reformer of modern times.
John Howard
A convicted felon who is prevented from voting, serving on a jury, or carrying a pistol, is being subjected to?
Civil Disabilities
Older prisoners (those over age 50) comprise about what percent of the inmate population? (You must be within 5% of the correct answer)
11%
The steps of examination, diagnosis, and treatment exemplify this model
The Medical Model
If most murders are emotional rather than rational acts, which argument favoring the death penalty is weakened?
Deterrence
As a condition of probation, an individual must check in daily with a nonresidential community corrections program that blends high levels of control with the delivery of specific services that person needs.
Day Reporting Center
You have pled guilty to criminal trespass and assault. The Judge sentences you to serve two years on the trespass charge and five years on the assault charge. However, you are allowed to serve both sentences at the same time and will be released in five years. In this case, the Judge has used which sentencing structure?
Concurrent Sentencing
A gang leader thought to be coordinating gang activities within the prison might be placed under this arrangement even without violating any prison rules.
Administrative Segregation
The Pennsylvania model (when compared to the Auburn model) provided more opportunity for this activity and was touted to evoke this out of its prisoners. (Must give at least one correct answer. If you can give both exact answers, double the points!)
Mediation and Repentance
This Supreme Court decision made clear that the standard of proof in criminal court was applicable to juveniles in juvenile court
In Re Winship
This bartering system is based on negotiation and exchange of goods and services between prisoners without the use of cash.
Sub Rosa Economy
What are the three key requirements for an effective deterrence system? (The punishment must be...)
Swift
Certain
Severe
You have been sentenced to a community-based correctional center where you will live under supervision and must obtain permission to leave for work, school, or leisure activities. To what type of program have you been sentenced?
Residential Community Corrections Facility (RCCF)
The Judge is required by the state to refer to a matrix and then issue a sentence that falls within a range of months for an offender with particular characteristics who have been convicted of a particular crime category. The Judge is following what?
Presumptive Sentencing Guidelines
Prison inmates who use their legal knowledge and skills to write writs and grievances to the court system for themselves and other inmates are called
Jailhouse Lawyers
These are the two primary federal sources of prisoners' rights (Must have both!)
U.S. Constitution and Civil Rights Act.
Not by clemency, not by commutation, nor by execution... it is by this reason most people have left death row since 1976
Sentence or Conviction Overturned
(By an appeals or higher court).
This type of pretrial release is when the defendant is allowed to remain at liberty in the community solely on his or her promise to appear for trial at the required time.
Release on Recognizance