Corrections Officer Exam 2

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Corrections Officer Exam 2

• diversion: minimizing penetration into the criminal justice system through police,

community, or court programs

• Pretrial Intervention Programs: Requiring defendants awaiting trail to report to

a supervision officer

• 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

• 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

• 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

• house arrest: being confined to one's home except when permission is granted 1 / 3

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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

• 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

• drug court: problem-solving court that require drug offenders to participate in

court-mandated treatment programs

• 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

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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

• shock probation: designed to give offenders a short "taste of the bars" followed

by a period of supervised probation

• boot camp: modeled after military boot camps, offenders are required to engage

in strict discipline and physical regiment

• bureaucratic control: predominant public administration format for prison op-

erations

• custody: term referring to the level of immediate control exercised over offend-

ers within correctional institutions

• general population: prisoners not restricted to tighter controls than other in-

mates

24. graduated release: programs bridging inmate status from imprisonment to

community control

• correctional officers: line prison officers working directly with the inmate pop-

ulation

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