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Exam 9: Boot Camps and Jail-Based Community Supervision: Unique Alternatives to Traditional Community-Based Corrections Practices

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When asked to rate the importance of boot camp program goals, state corrections officials were less concerned with punishing offenders and more concerned with deterring future crime and rehabilitating offenders.

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Jails operate______programs that allow residents to leave the facility for a specified number of hours to work but require them to return to jail at the end of the work day.

A) electronic monitoring
B) work release
C) halfway-house
D) diversion

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______ is a point system based on an individual's offense, prior criminal history, and institutional behavior to determine if individuals need to be housed at high, medium, low, or prerelease levels.

______ is the delivery of community-based services to offenders who have been released from confinement in a correctional facility.

Evaluations of adult and juvenile boot camp programs consistently show that they do not reduce recidivism.

Jails are adult detention facilities that confine persons awaiting trial, sentencing, or transfer to state prison.

In the 1990s, the number of prisoners participating in correctional boot camps______.

In the 1990s, the number of prisoners participating in boot camps decreased in the U.S.

In our nation's jails, only 25% of jail residents have substance-abuse problems.

Evidence-based practices have increasingly revealed that interventions for offenders under jail authority can be successful when strategies address both the risks and needs of the offender. TRUE

______ is a collaborative partnership between the jail and the community in transitioning an inmate from custody back into the community.

A survey conducted by the Bureau of Justice Statistics, found that______of jail residents had substance-abuse problems.

Correctional boot camps are military-style programs wherein young offenders convicted of non- violent crimes are typically confined for______.

Evaluations of adult and juvenile boot camp programs consistently show that they do not reduce

A common principle of correctional boot camps is that such punishments serve as an intermediate sanction to reduce prison crowding.

______ is a community-based correctional program that enables offenders to hold jobs in the community during the day, returning to their institutions at night.

In 1985 Louisiana became the first state to establish a correctional boot camp for juvenile offenders.

A common principle is that correctional boot camps serve as an intermediate sanction to ______.

Two of the most highly publicized stories of boot camp abuse involved the deaths of Gina Score and ______.

Work release programs afford offenders the opportunity to maintain employment even while they are confined in jail.