CRIM 103 FINAL EXAM QUESTIONS AND VERIFIED
ANSWERS
Criminogenic Risk Factors - Answers - Characteristics of the offender or their
circumstances that increase criminak potential.
Interventions - Answers - Strategies such as treatment programs that are used to help
an offender learn alternatives to criminal behaviour
Sanction - Answers - A penalty such as a fine, or incarceration, imposed on a person
found guilty of a criminal offence
Ombudsman - Answers - A government official whose role is to hear and investigate
complaints made by citizens about government agencies
Range - Answers - A large and secure common cell area that individual prison cells
open into
Aggregate sentences - Answers - The combined total of all sentences being served by
an individual
Conditional release - Answers - The lawful release of an inmate from prison before the
expiry of a sentence, subject to conditions set by the releasing authority
Temporary absence - Answers - A type of conditional release that allows an offender to
be out of prison during the day and requires them to return at night
Day Parole - Answers - A type of conditional release that allows an offender to reside in
the community for the remainder of their sentence, subject to conditions of the parole
board
Statutory release - Answers - A type of mandatory release for most federal offenders at
two thirds of their sentence
halfway house - Answers - A residential setting within the community that is staffed with
professionals who support offenders with the process of their return to society.
Detention - Answers - Incarceration in prison that, in certain circumstances, may extend
until the end of the sentence
Actuarial risk assessment - Answers - A statistical evaluation of offender risk; it
measures variables that research has shown are predictive of recidivism
, PCL-R (Psychopathy Checklist-Revised) - Answers - A twenty item scale used to
access the core elements of psychopathic behaviour and character. It was developed
by Robert Hare in the 1990s
SIR-R (Statistical information on recidivism-revisited) - Answers - A statistical tool used
to predict recidivism. Developed by the solicitor general of Canada in the 1970s
Lifeline program - Answers - A partnership between CSC, the national parole board,
and non-government agencies under the program, paroled offenders returned to an
institution to work with fellow convicts and assist in their successful release.
Desistance - Answers - The process by which, with or without the involvement of
criminal justice professionals, an offender terminates their offending and pursues a
crime free life
Doli incapax doctrine - Answers - Belief that a child of tender years is incapable of an
unlawful act.
"Good and evil" test - Answers - A child could be found guilty if the state could establish
that the child was able to distinguish between the concepts of good or evil
parens patriae - Answers - "Parent of the nation" the principal that the state acts as a
"kindly parent" to dependant delinquents
indeterminate - Answers - A disposition for youth that was not a fixed length.
Incorrigible - Answers - When a youth is beyond the care and control of their parents
Status offence - Answers - Acts that are considered illegal because of the age of the
offender; such as truancy
Truancy - Answers - Not being in school without having permission or a reason to be
absent
Preamble - Answers - Words that appear at the beginning of a piece of legislation as a
guide to the statues legal intention
Diversion - Answers - A sentencing approach in which offenders are given an
opportunity to perform some community service or are referred to a community agency.
Extrajudicial measure and extrajudicial sanctions are forms of diversion
Extrajudicial measures - Answers - Informal ways in which the police may keep a young
person out of the criminal justice system; warnings, cautions, or referrals
ANSWERS
Criminogenic Risk Factors - Answers - Characteristics of the offender or their
circumstances that increase criminak potential.
Interventions - Answers - Strategies such as treatment programs that are used to help
an offender learn alternatives to criminal behaviour
Sanction - Answers - A penalty such as a fine, or incarceration, imposed on a person
found guilty of a criminal offence
Ombudsman - Answers - A government official whose role is to hear and investigate
complaints made by citizens about government agencies
Range - Answers - A large and secure common cell area that individual prison cells
open into
Aggregate sentences - Answers - The combined total of all sentences being served by
an individual
Conditional release - Answers - The lawful release of an inmate from prison before the
expiry of a sentence, subject to conditions set by the releasing authority
Temporary absence - Answers - A type of conditional release that allows an offender to
be out of prison during the day and requires them to return at night
Day Parole - Answers - A type of conditional release that allows an offender to reside in
the community for the remainder of their sentence, subject to conditions of the parole
board
Statutory release - Answers - A type of mandatory release for most federal offenders at
two thirds of their sentence
halfway house - Answers - A residential setting within the community that is staffed with
professionals who support offenders with the process of their return to society.
Detention - Answers - Incarceration in prison that, in certain circumstances, may extend
until the end of the sentence
Actuarial risk assessment - Answers - A statistical evaluation of offender risk; it
measures variables that research has shown are predictive of recidivism
, PCL-R (Psychopathy Checklist-Revised) - Answers - A twenty item scale used to
access the core elements of psychopathic behaviour and character. It was developed
by Robert Hare in the 1990s
SIR-R (Statistical information on recidivism-revisited) - Answers - A statistical tool used
to predict recidivism. Developed by the solicitor general of Canada in the 1970s
Lifeline program - Answers - A partnership between CSC, the national parole board,
and non-government agencies under the program, paroled offenders returned to an
institution to work with fellow convicts and assist in their successful release.
Desistance - Answers - The process by which, with or without the involvement of
criminal justice professionals, an offender terminates their offending and pursues a
crime free life
Doli incapax doctrine - Answers - Belief that a child of tender years is incapable of an
unlawful act.
"Good and evil" test - Answers - A child could be found guilty if the state could establish
that the child was able to distinguish between the concepts of good or evil
parens patriae - Answers - "Parent of the nation" the principal that the state acts as a
"kindly parent" to dependant delinquents
indeterminate - Answers - A disposition for youth that was not a fixed length.
Incorrigible - Answers - When a youth is beyond the care and control of their parents
Status offence - Answers - Acts that are considered illegal because of the age of the
offender; such as truancy
Truancy - Answers - Not being in school without having permission or a reason to be
absent
Preamble - Answers - Words that appear at the beginning of a piece of legislation as a
guide to the statues legal intention
Diversion - Answers - A sentencing approach in which offenders are given an
opportunity to perform some community service or are referred to a community agency.
Extrajudicial measure and extrajudicial sanctions are forms of diversion
Extrajudicial measures - Answers - Informal ways in which the police may keep a young
person out of the criminal justice system; warnings, cautions, or referrals
