Study Guide -- Chapter 8 Alternatives to Incarceration CRJU 4200

Chapter 8 -- Residential Intermediate Sanctions

1. What is the purpose of an intermediate sanction?

2. Define the concept of “widening the net?”

3. Name the three correctional settings where Boot camp programs are found?

4. What are the typical eligibility limitations for candidates for boot camps?

5. How many boot camp programs existed in the United States in the year 2000?

6. Who determines which offenders participate in probation boot camps?

7. Why might it be prudent to allow the Department of Corrections to select participants for boot camps?

8. What percentage of the total inmate population are in RCCFs?

9. Who or what organizations were the first to open halfway houses and why?

10. What does “fill the gap” between total incarceration and absolute freedom, and what correctional device does that best?

11. Name the problems with effectively evaluating the performance of halfway house programs?

12. What is the primary function of Restitution Centers?

13. What type of offenders do therapeutic communities specifically target?

14. What is the experimental program that combines a prison-based therapeutic community with work release.

15. What type of offender is the John P. Craine House for?