Dr. Adam McKee's

Probation and Parole

Spring 2006

Assignment 11

1.  Define the following terms in your own words:

1. Parole
2. Mandatory release
3. Discretionary parole
4. Transportation
5. Ticket-of-leave
6. Marks system
7. The Irish System
8. Indeterminate Sentence
9. Medical Model
10. Just deserts
11. Justice model
12. Determinate sentence
13. Presumptive sentence
14. Good time
15. Medical parole

2.  Why did the medical model fall out of favor?

3.  What is the justice model of corrections?  What factors contributed to its development?

4.  What are the advantages and disadvantages of abolishing parole?

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