Sentencing: Prison and Community Corrections Goals
CHAPTER 5
INTERMEDIATE SANCTIONS: BETWEEN PROBATION AND INCARCERATION
Chapter Objectives
1. Define intermediate sanctions and describe their purpose.
2. Define net widening.
3. Describe how intensive supervision probation works.
4. Explain what drug courts are.
5. Explain how day fines differ from traditional fines.
6. Describe what a sentence to community service entails.
7. Explain what day reporting centers are.
8. Describe how remote-location monitoring works.
9. Explain what residential community centers are.
10. Identify the major features of boot camps.
11. Distinguish between a policy-centered approach and a program centered approach to planning intermediate sanctions.
12. Define community corrections.
13. Explain what community corrections acts are.
Chapter Outline
Intermediate Sanctions
• Most often used for offenders considered nonviolent and low risk
• Usually require the offender to lead a productive life in the community
• Cost less than prison, but usually are more restrictive than probation
Value of Intermediate Sanctions
• Initial goal was to reduce prison populations (has not happened)
• They provide a means for offenders who are not dangerous to repay their victims and their communities
• Promote rehabilitation
• Can do these things at a comparatively low cost
Varieties of Intermediate Sanctions
• Intensive supervision probation
• Drug court
• Fines
• Community service
• Day reporting centers
• Remote-location monitoring
• Residential community centers
• Boot camps
TIP: What are some other ‘strange’ sentences students have heard of? Parents have been sentenced to attend school with their children, one judge had an offender spanked as he had hit his kids, and another judge gave an offender a slap on the wrist as he did not think the offender deserved anything more severe.
Policy-Centered Approach to Developing Intermediate Sanctions
• Emphasizes the policy that spells out the sentencing scheme
INTERMEDIATE SANCTIONS: BETWEEN PROBATION AND INCARCERATION
Chapter Objectives
1. Define intermediate sanctions and describe their purpose.
2. Define net widening.
3. Describe how intensive supervision probation works.
4. Explain what drug courts are.
5. Explain how day fines differ from traditional fines.
6. Describe what a sentence to community service entails.
7. Explain what day reporting centers are.
8. Describe how remote-location monitoring works.
9. Explain what residential community centers are.
10. Identify the major features of boot camps.
11. Distinguish between a policy-centered approach and a program centered approach to planning intermediate sanctions.
12. Define community corrections.
13. Explain what community corrections acts are.
Chapter Outline
Intermediate Sanctions
• Most often used for offenders considered nonviolent and low risk
• Usually require the offender to lead a productive life in the community
• Cost less than prison, but usually are more restrictive than probation
Value of Intermediate Sanctions
• Initial goal was to reduce prison populations (has not happened)
• They provide a means for offenders who are not dangerous to repay their victims and their communities
• Promote rehabilitation
• Can do these things at a comparatively low cost
Varieties of Intermediate Sanctions
• Intensive supervision probation
• Drug court
• Fines
• Community service
• Day reporting centers
• Remote-location monitoring
• Residential community centers
• Boot camps
TIP: What are some other ‘strange’ sentences students have heard of? Parents have been sentenced to attend school with their children, one judge had an offender spanked as he had hit his kids, and another judge gave an offender a slap on the wrist as he did not think the offender deserved anything more severe.
Policy-Centered Approach to Developing Intermediate Sanctions
• Emphasizes the policy that spells out the sentencing scheme