Alternative Sentencing
A system allowing offenders to serve the final part of their sentence in the community.
What is Probation?
A strategy ensuring prosecution can proceed even if victims are unwilling to testify.
What is Evidence-Based prosecution?
A type of bond posted on behalf of a defendant, allowing release from detention.
What is a Bail Bond?
The practice of requiring a minimum penalty for certain offenses, regardless of the circumstances.
What is Mandatory Sentencing?
The practice of targeting specific areas for police attention to reduce crime in those spots.
What is Hot-Spot Policing?
The concept highlighting the difficulty of extending research findings from one location to others.
What is the Generalization Problem?
Programs providing military-style discipline for young offenders.
What is Boot Camp?
A penalty involving a fixed amount of money as punishment for an offense.
What is a Fine?
A sentence where the offender must remain inside their home during specified times.
What is Home Confinement?
A method of punishment where offenders are placed under electronic surveillance.
What is Electronic-Monitoring?
An approach that focuses on reducing crime through the management of physical environments.
What is Quality-of-Life Policing?
The approach focusing on incarcerating high-rate or dangerous offenders to reduce crime.
What is Selective Incapacitation?
An alternative to traditional incarceration, focusing on the offender's rehabilitation in the community.
What is Community Service?
A court initiative focusing on rehabilitating offenders with substance abuse issues.
What is Drug Court?
A court designed to address the needs of offenders with mental health issues.
What is a Mental Health Court?
Between 1975 and 1995, the state of Arizona required mandatory sentences for these first-time offenders.
Who are drunk drivers?
Legislation aimed at repeat offenders to significantly increase penalties for those convicted multiple times.
What is Three-Strikes Legislation?
The outcome of this legislation showed modest reductions in alcohol consumption despite significant policy efforts.
What was Prohibition?
A legal process enabling property involved in crime to be seized by the state.
What is a Civil Forfeiture?
Legislation requiring a specified minimum sentence for certain crimes.
What is Mandatory Minimum Sentencing?
An enforcement strategy aimed at reducing the financial incentives of criminal activity.
What is Asset Forfeiture?
Protection against being tried twice for the same offense.
What is Double Jeopardy Protection?
A policing strategy that emphasizes the importance of building relationships and working collaboratively with communities.
What is Community Policing?
The simple fact that there are far more people than patrol officers makes it unlikely that this crime control strategy effecitvely reduces crime.
What is Random Patrol?
A community-based strategy aiming to prevent gang involvement and activities.
What is a Gang Injunction?
A form of oversight of a defendant prior to criminal proceedings. Think of it like probation before conviction.
What is Pretrial Supervision?
A legal document restricting someone's activities to prevent future criminal behavior.
What is an Injunction?
A legal action aimed at restricting an individual's movements or activities for a specific period of time.
What is a Temporary Restraining Order?
A method of policing that seeks to address the specific problems that cause crime in communities.
What is Problem-Oriented Policing?
A study by this person found that quality-of-life policing has a limited impact beyond reducing physical disorder and public morals offenses.
Who are Katz, Webb, and Schaefer?