Intro to Criminal Justice Chapter 12 NEW

Day Fines

Program where the probationer pays part of the costs of their treatment.

Intermediate Sanctions

Group of punishments that falls between probation and prison, which is primarily community-based and usually administered by probation departments.

Revocation Hearing

Hearing that is held for a probationer who is accused of new charges and risks their probation being revoked.

Risk Assessment

Includes investigating the offender's employment status, drug use history, and criminal history.

Benefits of Community Sentences

Less costly, help of offender maintain community and family ties, structured to maximize security and public safety, can be scaled to correspond to the seriousness of the crime.

Specialized Probation

This type of probation sees a team of probation officers taking on clients convicted of one specific type of crime (i.e., drug offenses, etc.) rather than treated a mixed bag of offenders.

Tate v Short

USSC case that found incarcerating individuals who could not pay fines discriminates against the poor.

Public Intoxication and other minor offenses

Would most likely end in a sentence of a fine only.

Judicial Reprieve

Common-law practice that allowed judges to suspend punishment so that convicted offenders could seek a pardon or demonstrate that they had reformed their behavior.

Community Service Restitution

Condition of probation in which the offender works in the community for the trouble caused by the offender.

Probation Officer

Duties include conducting PSIs, meeting with probationers, and monitoring probationers.

Electronic Monitoring

This is typically a condition of house arrest.

Monetary Restitution

This occurs when the offender pays back the victim of a crime.

Shock Probation

Another name for a split sentence.

Recognizance

Medieval practice of allowing convicted offenders to go unpunished if they agreed to refrain from any further criminal behavior.

65%

Percentage of probationers that successfully complete their probationary sentences.

Suspended Sentence

Prison term that is delayed while the defendant undergoes a period of community treatment.

Presentence Investigation Report (PSI)

Report that is completed prior to, or before, sentencing and is used by the judge to assist with sentencing.

Forfeiture

The taking of personal property by the states as a civil or criminal penalty.