Dr. Adam McKee's

Probation and Parole

Spring 2006

Assignment 8

1.  Define the following terms in your own words:

1. Intermediate sanctions
2. Widening the net
3. Shock incarceration
4. Boot camp
5. Residential community corrections facilities
6. Halfway houses
7. Restitution centers
8. Therapeutic communities
9. Relapse
10. Work and study release

2.  What factors brought about the development of intermediate sanctions?

3.  What are the purposes of shock incarceration?

4.  How successful have boot camps been?

5.  What are some examples of residential community corrections facilities?  (be sure to describe how each example works)

6.  What are halfway houses?  Do they work?

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