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Chapter 1:
The total number of incarceration
2,375,000 people
Chapter 1:
Number of people in Jail
775,000
Chapter 1:
Number of people in Prison

Federal and State
Prison: 5,125,000

Federal: 200,000

State: 1,400,000
Chapter 1:
Total number of people Community Corrections
5,125,000
Chapter 1:
total number of people on people in Parole and Probation
Parole:825,000

Probation: 4,300,000
Chapter 1:
Definitions of Corrections?
The variety of programs, service, facilities, and organizations responsible for the management of individuals accused or convicted of criminal offenses.
Chapter 1:
Definition of Social Control
actions and practice of individuals and institution design to induce conformity with the norms and rules of society
Chapter 1:
The Origins of Punishment?
Founder of it
Social Contact= Emile Durkheim
Chapter 1:
Definition of System Framework
a complex whole consisting of interconnected parts whose operation are direct towards common goal and influence by the environment.
Chapter 1:
System Framework Goals?
1) Community safety and public protection

2) Punishment

3) Rehabilitation and Reintegration
Chapter 1:
System Framework Disconnectedness
a series of process, sentencing, classification, supervision, programming, parole and revocation
Chapter 1:
System Framework Environment?

Think outside forces from the people who work in the CJ
outside forces such has politics, public opinions, fiscal realities and the law
Chapter 1:
The corrections system today?

How many people employees and the amount of money
700,000 Employees

$60-$70 Billion
Chapter 1:
Definitions of Federalism
a system of government in which the power and responsibilities are divided between a national and state government
Chapter 1:
Define Prisons
confinement in a state or federal corrections facility to serve a sentence of more than 1 year.
Chapter 1:
Define Jail
confinement in a local jail while pending trial, awaiting sentencing, serve a sentence is usually less than 1 year, or awaiting transfers and other facilities convictions
Chapter 1:
The Colonial Period of Retribution
harsh brutal public corporal & capital punishment
Chapter 1:
The Arrival of the Penitentiary was when?
1790's-1860's
Chapter 1:
What was the first jail in the United States?
and what thought could help the prisoners
The Walnut Street Jail in Philadelphia 1790.

Isolation (mental & suicides)
Hard-work
Penitence
Reformation
Chapter 1:
Why was Western State Penitentiary in Pittsburgh (1825) and Eastern State Penitentiary in Philadelphia (1827) built?
When the walnut street jail became overcrowded
Chapter 1:
The name of the jail built in New York (year) and __________ Model used?
Auburn, 1819

Confinement Model
Chapter 1:
The different purpose posed upon in the Auburn Jail? and its Goals
Strict silence, Discipline, Striped Uniforms, lockstep marching

Goals: industrial efficiency and installation of good work habits
Chapter 1:
Sing Sing, was built by which jail and called "____ the River) and year
Built by the Auburn Guidance

UP the River 1825-1826
Chapter 1:
Difference between Walnut Street vs Auburn
a. Too expensive
b. “concern that prisoners were going insane (and suicidal) because they could not endure long term solitary confinement

2. New York
a. Consistent with the demands of factory production and the emerging industrial age
b. Profitable
1. Model for Industrial prisons
Chapter 1:
Who invented the Mark System and it _______ sentencing
Alexander Maconochhie

Indeterminate Sentence
Chapter 1:
What did the Mark system do for inmates??

(think check marks and for doing something good)
a system for offenders to earn marks to determine their released based on the labor, behavior, and educational achievement
Chapter 1:
What did the National Prison Association back about in Cincinnati 1970
Reformation
Indeterminate Sentence
Classification
Chapter 1:
Elimira Reformation 1876
Probation (John Augustus)
Indeterminate Sentencing
Parole
Chapter 1:
Define Medical Model
it looked at biological, psychological, economic, and social causes
Chapter 1:
Define Reformation
an institution for young offenders that emphasized in mark system, classifications, indeterminate sentence, parole
Chapter 1:

community Corrections
a model of corrections based on assumption that reintegrating offender into the community should be the goal of CJ
Chapter 1:
crime control of corrections
a models on assumptions that criminal behavioral can be controlled be increased use of incarceration and strict supervision
Chapter 1:
Evidence based corrections
a movement to ensure that corrections programs and policies are based on research evidence "What works"
Chapter 2:
Define Enlightenment (Age of Reason)
during the 1700's when liberalism, rationally, equality, and individualism dominated social and political thinking
Chapter 2:
The father of Classical School
Cesare Beccari
Chapter 2:
Define the six principles of Classical schools
All social action must be utilitarian

crime just injury society and only rational measure of crime extent of injury

prevent crimes more important then punishment of crime

accused have right to speedy trial
purpose of punishment is deterrence not revenge

criminal should be group by age, sex, and type of criminality
Chapter 2:
Jeremy Bentham and the Hedomic Calculus coined this term
Utilitarianism
Chapter 2:
Define Utilitarianism

(making sure outweighs the pain)
a doctrine aimed to to the believer that the belief that the offender must achieve enough good to outweigh the pain inflicted
Chapter 2:
Define Retribution
(think Eye for an Eye)
a person who broke the law and deserves to be punished
Chapter 2:
Define General Deterrence
Citizen will not commit the crime because they have observed the punishments
Chapter 2:
Define Specific deterrence

(criminal + punishment=____)
Punishment towards criminals so they wont commit crime
Chapter 2:
Define Incapacitation
(holding the criminal in jail)
depriving the offender to commit future crimes detaining the offender in jail
Chapter 2:
Define Rehabilitation
the goal of restoring the convicted offender to a constructed place in society through vocational training, education and therapy
Chapter 2:
Define restorative justice
punishment design to repair damage done to the victim and community by the offenders act
Chapter 2:
Define Indeterminate Sentence
(unknown time in jail)
a period of incarceration with no minimum or maximum , eligibility depends of time necessary
Chapter 2:
Determinate Sentence
(known time in jail)
a amount if time incarcerated by the court; associated to retribution
Chapter 2:
Define presumptive sentence
(unknown and privilege)
a set of minimum or maximum month or (years) Judge fix the sentence with that range allowing for special circumstances
Chapter 2:
Define Mandatory Sentence
some minimum period of incarceration must be served by people convicted of crime.
Chapter 2:
Intermediate Sanctions

(think probation but not the same and less expensive than jail)
punishments that are restrictive than traditional probation and cost less than jail.
Chapter 2:

Define Probation
a sentence allowing offenders to serve the sanction imposed by court to live under community supervision.
Chapter 2:

Define Shock probation

(think cultural shock but with jail time)
a sentence in which an offender is released after a short incarceration and given probation
Chapter 2:
Define Blameworthiness
how much blame the offender deserves for his crime
Chapter 2:
Presentence Report

(done by a probation officer)
report presenteced to the judge by a probation officer of the offenders background to help the judge select an appropriate sentence
Chapter 2:
Define Sentencing Guidelines
an instrument developed for judges to give offender a reasonable sentence
Chapter 2:
Define Sentence Disparity
when no justification is given for imposing very different penalties on offenders with similar criminal histories who committed the same crime
Chapter 2:
Wrongful Conviction
when an innocent person is found guilty by either verdict or plea
Chapter 3:
Where did the jail originate from?
England
Chapter 3:
Define Lockup? another name for it and who runs it
(think before trial)
a facility to hold people before court usually 48 hours. Also know as drunk tanks and run by police agency
Chapter 3:
Define Fee System
Fee System is asystem by the jail operations are funded by a set amount paid per day for each prisoner
Chapter 3:
Define regional jail
facility operated under two joint agreements between two or more government unit with a jail board looking over authority in policy, budget, operations, and personnel
Chapter 3:
Define Bail
amount of money set by the judge so the offender can be out of jail.
Chapter 3:
Define bail bondsmen
a independent business who provides bail and get 5-10% of the total amount/
Chapter 3:
Release on Recognize
pretrial release because the judge believe his community ties are sufficient and will appear at court
Chapter 3:
Define day reporting center
(babysitting but for offenders)
a facility where pretrial releases and probation attend daylong interventions and treatment sessions
Chapter 3:
Define Electric Monitoring
community supervision technique with home confinement that uses electronic device to maintain surveillance
Chapter 3:
Define absconder
(people who dont show up)
people who fail to show up at court date and have no real reason
Chapter 4:
How many inmates were going to be reduced by realignment
40,0000 Prisoners
Chapter 4:
The cost to imprison people cost how much
70 billion
Chapter 4:
The four factors cited to support community corrections
o Offenders and criminal records are not serious enough to warrant incarceration

o Community supervision is cheaper

o Rates of recidivism or returning to crime, for those under community supervision are no higher than for those who go to prison.

o Ex-inmates require both support and supervision as they try to remake their lives in the community. Pg. (89)
Chapter 4:
Define Probation
When prisoner spent the rest of the incarceration in community supervision
Chapter 4:
Who was John Augustus
First person to provide bail for defendants, authority from the Boston Police Court,
Chapter 4:
Modernization of Probation

Who were probation officers?

Who did probation officers the most strain
originated in Boston, probation officers were law enforcement, strain between probation officer and social workers
Chapter 4:
in the 1940 what model did they emphasis.
(think medicine)
the medical model,
main goal rehabilitation
lasted until 1960's
Chapter 4:
what are four different ways to get probation
judge impose sentence as probation

judge sends offender to jail and with good behavior

probation and jail time

offenders already on probation can get an additional sentence
Chapter 4:
who gets probation

(Felony and Serious Crimes)
50% of convicted Felony

1/5 (20%) of serious crimes
Chapter 4:
Define Intermediate Sanctions
allow closer tailoring of the punishment for offenders
Chapter 4:
Define wider nets
people in society whose behavior is regulated or controlled by the state
Chapter 4:
Define Stringer Nets
intensifying the states intervention power.
Chapter 4:
Sanctions administered primarily by judiciary are
programs to design to lower trial caseload, especially focusing on less serious offenders
Chapter 4:
Pretrial Detention
focuses with petty drug offenders, the program diversion
Chapter 4:
Define Home confinement and exceptions
a offender spends the rest of his incarceration in their home.
Some exception for some free time or for a job
Chapter 4:
Passive Monitors vs Active Devices
Passive (phone calls to house and put monitor on the receiver)

Active, 24 hrs GPS watch
Chapter 5:
Rhinanna real name
Robyn Fenty
Chapter 5:
Define Presentence investigation (PSI)
the do background investigation on the offender and give to the judge to help them make a decision of punishment
Chapter 5:
Define Victim Impact statement
description from the offender must pay back financial cost and emotional
Chapter 5:
client-specific planning
process which a private investigation firm contacts offender to conduct a background
Chapter 5:
Why are Private PSI a controversy?
because the offender pays him and can keep information from the judge and make the offender look good
Chapter 5:
What are the two functions of probation
Supervision and Investigation
Chapter 5:
Do defedants have the right to see the PSI
No
Chapter 5:
Two conflicts/responsibilities probation officer face
enforcing the law and helping the offender
Chapter 5:
Define power
having the power to make a person do something he/she doesn't want to do
Chapter 5:
Define Authority
influencing a persons action without using force
Chapter 5:
What is motivational interviewing
(trying to do some change to the offender)
a way to increase the client stake in that change of process
Chapter 5:
What are the three kinds of supervision and meaning
Standard applies to every case

punitive reflects the seriousness

treatment are of probation needs
Chapter 5:
What are the 5 stages of Case Management System
1. Statistical risk assessment
2. Systematic need assessment
3. Contact supervision standards
4. Case Planning
5. Workload account
Chapter 5:
Define Statistical Assessment
(think fight or flight for offenders)
fully accurate predictions are impossible, there is pressure the client is a risk
Chapter 5:
Define
systematic need assessment
(beigng unfair)
assessment of clients from probation officer has bias and lack of information
Chapter 5:
Contact supervision standards
( helping kind vs mean person)
spend more time with with cooperative offenders then aggressive ones
Chapter 5:
Define Case Planning
(making a plan )
Different plans to help the probation offender out
Chapter 5:
Define Workload accounting
different varieties of supervision needs, simply case can misrepresent overall workload of agency
Chapter 5:
Define evidence base practice
using correction methods that have been effective by well design research studies
Chapter 5:
Urinalysis
(testing for illicit ____)
to determine is somebody is on drugs
Chapter 5:
Define Anatbuse
(stop drinking)
a drug combine with alcohol will make you feel nausea
Chapter 5:
Define mathadone
(meth craving)
reduces addiction of meth
Chapter 5:
define how a trial happens
Pretrial, Trial (hearing), Sentencing