Probation Definitions

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Probation Definitions
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House Arrest

• Requires convicted offenders to spend extended
  periods of time in their own home as an
  alternative to an incarceration sentence.

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Electronic Monitoring

• Devices to manage offender obedience to home
  confinement orders

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Split Sentencing

• 15 of all convicted criminals receive some type
  of split sentencing in which they are given a
  jail term and probation.

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Community Corrections

• The sub-field of corrections in which offenders
  are supervised and provided services outside jail
  or prison.

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Probation

• A sentence in which the offender, rather than
  being incarcerated, is retained in the community
  under the supervision of a probation agency and
  required to abide by certain rules and conditions
  to avoid incarceration.

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Pre-sentence Investigation (PSI)

• An investigation conducted by a probation agency
  into the past behavior, family circumstances and
  personality of an adult who has been convicted of
  a crime, to assist the court in determining the
  most appropriate sentence.

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Diversion

• Organized, systematic efforts to remove
  individuals from further processing in criminal
  justice by placing them in alternative programs
  diversion may be pre-trial or post-trial.

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Restitution

• Money paid or services provided to victims, their
  survivors, or to the community by a convicted
  offender to make up for the injury inflicted.

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Day Fines

• Fines geared to the average daily income of the
  convicted offender in an effort to bring equity
  to the sentencing process.

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Reintegration

• Offenders maintain community ties and are
  reoriented toward a more productive life while
  avoiding the pains of prison.

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Revoked

• Probation contract is terminated and the original
  sentence is enforced.

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Day Fees

• A form of fee on probationers to defray the cost
  of community corrections. Usually one to three
  days pay.

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Probation Conditions

• Rules that specify what an offender is and is not
  to do during the course of a probation sentence.

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Revocation

• The repeal of a probation sentence or parole, and
  substitution of a more restrictive sentence,
  because of violation or probation or parole
  conditions.

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Fines

• Monetary payments imposed on offenders as an
  intermediate punishment for their criminal acts.

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Technical Violations

• Failure to abide by the technical rules or
  conditions of probation or parole, as distinct
  from commission of a new criminal act. Ex
  curfew, use of alcohol, house arrest, ect.