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WorksheetsCh. 12 Review
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 8mins
The Second Chance Act of 2008 authorized the spending of approximately 400 million dollars to:
Break the cycle of criminal recidivism
Hire more probation and parole officers
Study the effects of the death penalty on death row inmates
Authorize the use of electronic monitoring in lieu of incarceration
What does the Fourth Amendment cover?
Double Jeopardy
Search and Seizure
Speedy and Public Trial
Excessive Bail
Which intermediate sanction resembles a military–style boot camp?
Shock probation
Intensive supervision
Shock incarceration
Shock parole
Probation, parole, home confinement, and electronic monitoring are examples of:
Community–based corrections
Imprisonment
Restitution
Lenient sentences
Most states have parole authorities that decide when an incarcerated offender is ready for conditional release. Some authorities also function as revocation hearing panels. This authority is commonly known as the ____ board.
Parole
Jail Time
Counsel
Good time
A sentencing option that makes use of "boot camp"-type prisons to impress on convicted offenders the realities of prison life is known as _____ incarceration.
Service
Shock
Split
Mixed
Community _____ is a sentencing alternative that requires offenders to spend at least part of their time working for a community agency.?
Service
Shock
Split
Mixed
A ________ sentence requires that a convicted offender serve weekends (or other specified periods of time) in a confinement facility (usually a jail) while undergoing probationary supervision in the community.
Service
Shock
Split
Mixed
A ______ sentence explicitly requires the convicted offender to serve a period of confinement in a local, state, or federal facility, followed by a period of probation.?
Service
Shock
Split
Mixed
In ________ v. Wisconsin, the Supreme Court ruled that probation officers may conduct searches of a probationer's residence without either a search warrant or probable cause.?
Samson
Gagnon
Griffin
Minnesota
Which of the following is a supervision strategy that uses electronic technology to track offenders who have been sentenced to house arrest, or who have been ordered to limit their movements while completing a sentence involving probation or parole?
Home confinement
Remote location monitoring
Community service
Conditional release
What form of probation requires face–to–face contacts between the probation officer and the probationer?
Directed
Intensive supervision
Concentrated
Shock
Which of the following is an early release option under which an inmate who is deemed "low risk" due to a serious physical or mental health condition is released from prison earlier than he or she might have been under normal circumstances?
Parole
Probation
Discretionary release
Medical parole
Although it was officially abolished in 1992, what federal authority still makes decisions on who is to receive parole in the federal corrections system?
United States Parole Commission
National Board of Commissioners and Correctional Officers
U.S. President
U.S. Attorney General
Which of the following is the managed return to the community of an individual released from prison, and the successful transitioning of a released inmate back into the community?
Mandatory release
Reentry
Probation
Parole board
