Author Question: Identify the sanctions included in the continuum or ladder of intermediate sanctions. What will ... (Read 68 times)

hubes95 · **on:** Aug 17, 2018

Identify the sanctions included in the continuum or ladder of intermediate sanctions.

What will be an ideal response?

Question 2

Intermediate sanctions emerged in the 1980s as a result of three trends. Identify and explain these.

What will be an ideal response?

blfontai · **Reply #1 on:** Aug 17, 2018

Answer to Question 1

Fines, forfeiture, and restitution are at one end of the continuum, with community-based corrections such as community service, electronic monitoring and house arrest, day reporting centers, and intensive probation in the middle. Placement in residential settings and traditional incarceration are at the far end of the continuum.

Answer to Question 2

The belief that prisons were being overused for offenders who really did not need secure confinement, especially drug offenders.
Prison crowding that forced states to consider lower-cost, community-based alternatives that would impose tough time in the community without endangering the public.
Wide public support for just desert sentencing structures, sparking interest in creating community sanctions geared toward the seriousness of crime.