1. Chapter 15 Flashcards

2. accreditation

3. the process of reviewing operating procedures and policies against a set of standards published by a professional organization such as the American Correctional Association (ACA)

4. acoustic fence

5. serves the same purpose as the invisible fence, but the inmate does not wear a receiving device

6. civil detention of sex offenders

7. allows states to transfer convicted sex offenders to hospitals for the criminally insane after they have served their prison sentences if they are judged likely to commit another sexual offense

8. corrections paradigm

9. the correctional philosophy followed due to the underlying social values guiding our approach to criminal behavior

10. crisis of overcriminalization

11. due to the increased number of punishable offenses, the number of offenders who need punishing has increased and with more punitive laws this has increased the time each inmate serves thus increasing the crowding in the nation’s jails and prisons

12. discount rate

13. the rate of good time credit, this could be as much as half the original sentence

14. electronic brain implants

15. combine mechanical and biological technologies to control certain types of thoughts or behaviors

16. electronic fence

17. an extension of house arrest that is like a fence used for dogs, there is an electric fence buried along the perimeter of the yard with a bracelet, worn by the detainee, that puts out a shock if the offender tries to cross the boundary

18. eugenics

19. genetic engineering

20. genetic mapping

21. examining the arrangement of genes on the chromosome

22. global positioning satellite (GPS) surveillance

23. active monitoring device that continuously tracks individuals such as sex offenders

24. law of criminal justice thermodynamics

25. the more severe criminal penalties become, the less likely practitioners are to apply them with full force

26. sex-offender notification laws

27. requires sex offenders to notify the police when they move to a new neighborhood

28. sexual harassment

29. unsolicited and unwanted sexually based acts, ranging from lewd remarks to groping and touching, which cause workplace disruption

30. specialized caseloads

31. to assign parole officers groups of clients with very specific problems

32. telemedicine

33. health care provision over a distance using telecommunications technology

34. total containment model

35. an approach to managing sex offenders in the community that uses agency coordination, multidisciplinary partnerships, and specialized staff