Probation and Parole Exam 1 | UPDATED Questions with
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Q1: What is probation?
A: The release of a convicted offender under conditions imposed by the court for a specific
period during which the court retains the authority to modify conditions or to resentence
the offender if he or she violates the conditions
Q2: What is community corrections?
A: Nonincarcerative sanctions in which the offender serve all or portion of their sentence in
the community
Q3: What is indeterminate sentence?
A: A sentencing philosophy that encourages rehabilitation and incorporates a broad
sentencing range where discretionary release is determined by a parole board based on
the defender's remorse, insight into his or her mistakes, involvement in rehabilitation, and
readiness to return to society. In every sentence there is a MINIMUM date and a
MAXIMUM date. A minimum sentencing is ALWAYS 1/2 of the maximum
Q4: What is determinate sentence?
A: A sentencing philosophy that focuses on consistency for the crime committed,
specifically by statute or sentencing guidelines an exact amount or narrow range of time
to be served in prison on in the community, which mandates the minimum amount of time
before the offender is eligible (if at all) for release. Presumptive, fixed or mandatory
sentence. Is a FLAT sentence
Q5: What are considered "front-end" sanctions?
A: Indeterminate sentencing is considered a front-end sanction
Q6: What is prisoner re-entry?
A: Any activity or program conducted to prepare ex-convicts to return safely to the
community and to live as a law abiding citizen
Q7: What is parole?
A: An early privileged release of a convicted offender from a penal or correctional
institution, under the continual custody of the state, to serve the remainder of his or her
sentence in the community under supervision. Its not automatic
Q8: What is Restorative Justice?
A: Various sentencing philosophies and practices that emphasize the offender taking
responsibility to repair the hard done to the victim and to the surrounding community
, Q9: What is evidence-based practice (EBP)?
A: Is integrating into everyday practice the correctional programs and techniques that have
been shown to be the most effective with offenders using evaluations results from
systematically evaluated research studies
Q10: What is "net widening"?
A: Is the use of an intermediate sanction as stiffer punishment for offenders who would have
ordinarily been sentenced to probation or lesser sanctions
Q11: Define the concept of punishment?
A: Punishment is having restrictions put upon you. Where you have to do certain things by a
certain time or contact people certain times and not do certain things
Q12: How did probation come about?
A: Probation evolved out of ancient precedents in England and the U.S. devised to avoid the
mechanical applications of the harsh penal codes of the day. (Was to save peoples lives,
punishments were harsh back then)
Q13: What is Amercement?
A: *Is a monetary penalty imposed at the discretion of the court for an offense*. The king
was the court at that point. The purpose of criminal law was not to rehabilitate or deter,
but to bring about justice for a past deed harmful to society
Q14: What is bail?
A: A monetary payment deposited with the court to ensure the defendant's return for the
next court date in exchange for the defendant's release
Q15: What is filing?
A: A procedure under which an indictment was "laid on file" or held in abeyance, without
either dismissal or final judgment in cases in which justice did not require an immediate
sentence. In effect the case was laid to rest. Mitigating harsh punishments of British Law
Q16: What is the case of Comm. Vs. Chase? (1830)
A: An example of the early use of release on recognizance (ROR)
Q17: Recognizance
A: A device of preventive justice that obliged people suspected of future misbehavior to
stipulate with and give full assurance to the court that the apprehended offense would
not occur. It is neither a disposition or a form of supervision
Q18: What is Killets case? (1916)
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Q1: What is probation?
A: The release of a convicted offender under conditions imposed by the court for a specific
period during which the court retains the authority to modify conditions or to resentence
the offender if he or she violates the conditions
Q2: What is community corrections?
A: Nonincarcerative sanctions in which the offender serve all or portion of their sentence in
the community
Q3: What is indeterminate sentence?
A: A sentencing philosophy that encourages rehabilitation and incorporates a broad
sentencing range where discretionary release is determined by a parole board based on
the defender's remorse, insight into his or her mistakes, involvement in rehabilitation, and
readiness to return to society. In every sentence there is a MINIMUM date and a
MAXIMUM date. A minimum sentencing is ALWAYS 1/2 of the maximum
Q4: What is determinate sentence?
A: A sentencing philosophy that focuses on consistency for the crime committed,
specifically by statute or sentencing guidelines an exact amount or narrow range of time
to be served in prison on in the community, which mandates the minimum amount of time
before the offender is eligible (if at all) for release. Presumptive, fixed or mandatory
sentence. Is a FLAT sentence
Q5: What are considered "front-end" sanctions?
A: Indeterminate sentencing is considered a front-end sanction
Q6: What is prisoner re-entry?
A: Any activity or program conducted to prepare ex-convicts to return safely to the
community and to live as a law abiding citizen
Q7: What is parole?
A: An early privileged release of a convicted offender from a penal or correctional
institution, under the continual custody of the state, to serve the remainder of his or her
sentence in the community under supervision. Its not automatic
Q8: What is Restorative Justice?
A: Various sentencing philosophies and practices that emphasize the offender taking
responsibility to repair the hard done to the victim and to the surrounding community
, Q9: What is evidence-based practice (EBP)?
A: Is integrating into everyday practice the correctional programs and techniques that have
been shown to be the most effective with offenders using evaluations results from
systematically evaluated research studies
Q10: What is "net widening"?
A: Is the use of an intermediate sanction as stiffer punishment for offenders who would have
ordinarily been sentenced to probation or lesser sanctions
Q11: Define the concept of punishment?
A: Punishment is having restrictions put upon you. Where you have to do certain things by a
certain time or contact people certain times and not do certain things
Q12: How did probation come about?
A: Probation evolved out of ancient precedents in England and the U.S. devised to avoid the
mechanical applications of the harsh penal codes of the day. (Was to save peoples lives,
punishments were harsh back then)
Q13: What is Amercement?
A: *Is a monetary penalty imposed at the discretion of the court for an offense*. The king
was the court at that point. The purpose of criminal law was not to rehabilitate or deter,
but to bring about justice for a past deed harmful to society
Q14: What is bail?
A: A monetary payment deposited with the court to ensure the defendant's return for the
next court date in exchange for the defendant's release
Q15: What is filing?
A: A procedure under which an indictment was "laid on file" or held in abeyance, without
either dismissal or final judgment in cases in which justice did not require an immediate
sentence. In effect the case was laid to rest. Mitigating harsh punishments of British Law
Q16: What is the case of Comm. Vs. Chase? (1830)
A: An example of the early use of release on recognizance (ROR)
Q17: Recognizance
A: A device of preventive justice that obliged people suspected of future misbehavior to
stipulate with and give full assurance to the court that the apprehended offense would
not occur. It is neither a disposition or a form of supervision
Q18: What is Killets case? (1916)
