Corrections Officer Exam 2
1. diversion: minimizing penetration into the criminal justice system through police,
community, or court programs
2. Pretrial Intervention Programs: Requiring defendants awaiting trail to report to
a supervision officer
3. treatment in lieu of conviction: diversion offered to offenders in which success-
ful completion of probation allows the prosecutor or judge to cease prosecution if
treatment programs results in no conviction
4. community corrections act (CCAs): legislation that funds local community cor-
rectional programs designed to divert offenders from prison
5. intermediate sanctions: correctional programs that fall somewhere between
probation and prison
6. day reporting center: facility to which offenders are sent for scheduling and
monitoring of their activities
7. restitution order: requirement that offender repay the victim
8. house arrest: being confined to one's home except when permission is granted
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,to leave
9. electronic monitoring: tracking of offender whereabouts electronically
10. risk management: strategies designed to provide increased supervision and
surveillance for higher-risk offenders and less-restrictive options for those of lower
risk
11. desistance: ceasing of criminal behavior by the offender. can also imply less-
ening of the severity of criminal offense
12. intensive supervised probation (ISP): intermediate sanction requiring in-
creased supervision for probationers
13. tourniquet sentencing: when a judge increases the sanctions and conditions
imposed on an offender
14. drug court: problem-solving court that require drug offenders to participate in
court-mandated treatment programs
15. community work order: requiring offenders to provide service to the community
to help repair the harm they have committed
16. home detention: sentence whereby offenders serve at least some of their
sentence in their own domicile
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, 17. electronic parole: community supervision technique that uses electronic de-
vices to maintain surveillance on parolees. can also include GPS surveillance
18. community residential treatment center: also known as a halfway house, a
residential facility that provides room and board as well as rehabilitation program-
ming
19. shock probation: designed to give offenders a short "taste of the bars" followed
by a period of supervised probation
20. boot camp: modeled after military boot camps, offenders are required to engage
in strict discipline and physical regiment
21. bureaucratic control: predominant public administration format for prison op-
erations
22. custody: term referring to the level of immediate control exercised over offend-
ers within correctional institutions
23. general population: prisoners not restricted to tighter controls than other in-
mates
24. graduated release: programs bridging inmate status from imprisonment to
community control
25. correctional officers: line prison officers working directly with the inmate pop-
ulation
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1. diversion: minimizing penetration into the criminal justice system through police,
community, or court programs
2. Pretrial Intervention Programs: Requiring defendants awaiting trail to report to
a supervision officer
3. treatment in lieu of conviction: diversion offered to offenders in which success-
ful completion of probation allows the prosecutor or judge to cease prosecution if
treatment programs results in no conviction
4. community corrections act (CCAs): legislation that funds local community cor-
rectional programs designed to divert offenders from prison
5. intermediate sanctions: correctional programs that fall somewhere between
probation and prison
6. day reporting center: facility to which offenders are sent for scheduling and
monitoring of their activities
7. restitution order: requirement that offender repay the victim
8. house arrest: being confined to one's home except when permission is granted
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,to leave
9. electronic monitoring: tracking of offender whereabouts electronically
10. risk management: strategies designed to provide increased supervision and
surveillance for higher-risk offenders and less-restrictive options for those of lower
risk
11. desistance: ceasing of criminal behavior by the offender. can also imply less-
ening of the severity of criminal offense
12. intensive supervised probation (ISP): intermediate sanction requiring in-
creased supervision for probationers
13. tourniquet sentencing: when a judge increases the sanctions and conditions
imposed on an offender
14. drug court: problem-solving court that require drug offenders to participate in
court-mandated treatment programs
15. community work order: requiring offenders to provide service to the community
to help repair the harm they have committed
16. home detention: sentence whereby offenders serve at least some of their
sentence in their own domicile
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16
, 17. electronic parole: community supervision technique that uses electronic de-
vices to maintain surveillance on parolees. can also include GPS surveillance
18. community residential treatment center: also known as a halfway house, a
residential facility that provides room and board as well as rehabilitation program-
ming
19. shock probation: designed to give offenders a short "taste of the bars" followed
by a period of supervised probation
20. boot camp: modeled after military boot camps, offenders are required to engage
in strict discipline and physical regiment
21. bureaucratic control: predominant public administration format for prison op-
erations
22. custody: term referring to the level of immediate control exercised over offend-
ers within correctional institutions
23. general population: prisoners not restricted to tighter controls than other in-
mates
24. graduated release: programs bridging inmate status from imprisonment to
community control
25. correctional officers: line prison officers working directly with the inmate pop-
ulation
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