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The doctrine that prisoners ought to receive no goods or services in excess of those available to people who have lived within the law
What is the principle of least eligibility?
100
this summary measures the value of a correctional program in saving money through preventing new crime
What is a cost-benefit ratio?
100
Nature and circumstance of offense and current attitude toward it, prior criminal record, attitudes toward family members victims and authority in general, participation and progress in programs for self improvement, physical mental and emotional health
What factors guide the parole board decision OR what are release criteria?
200
These types of objective classification models are designed to distinguish inmates with respect to risks of escape, potential misconduct in the institution, and future criminal behavior.
What is predictive models?
200
This system, developed in the early 1900s, uses inmate labor to make goods, rather than selling inmate labor to private entrepreneurs.
What is the public account system?
200
This occurs when the sentencing judge requires a period of post-custody supervision in the community as part of the punishment.
What is probation release?
300
this type of program seeks to treat the underlying emotional or mental problems that led to criminality
What are psychological programs?
300
in this system, introduced in the 1920s, prison inmates work on public construction and maintenance projects
What is the “public works and ways system” ?
300
The release of an inmate from incarceration without any further correctional supervision.
What is expiration release?
400
this group treatment technique bring the offender face to face with the crime's consequences for the victim and society.
What is confrontation therapy?
400
the release of an inmate from prison to conditional supervision at the discretion of the parole board within the boundaries set by the sentence and the penal law.
What is discretionary release?
400
a way of evaluating a corrections program by randomly assigning some people to the program and others to no program, and seeing which group does better.
What are random field trials?
500
nearly 40% of prisoners have not accomplished this academic rank
What is completing a general equivalency diploma?
500
a key figure in the development of American corrections, Captain Alexander Maconochie proposed that prisoners should be transitioned from imprisonment to conditional release to full freedom, modernly know as this.
What is parole?
500
Achieving correctional goals through the use of new technologies is known as this:
What are techno-corrections?