CHAPTER 8: INTERMEDIATE SANCTIONS

Point of chapter 8: We should begin looking toward
INTERMEDIATE SANCTIONS on a GRADUATED LEVEL of punishment and
control that exist between freedom (parole) and incarceration.

Why?

  1) prison are costly
  2) Not all offenses deserve incarceration
  3) Not all prisoners are alike
   4) Not all experience prison the same way
   5) Prisons are not effective
   6) Prisons may actually INCREASE crime

THE CONTINUUM OF SANCTIONS CONCEPT

This means a range of correctional management strategies based on
escalating degree of intrusiveness and control over the offender,
along which an offender is moved based on his/her response to
corrections programs and behavior.

An examle of such a continuum:

1) Financial penalties
2) Summary probation
3) FARE probation (day fines--based on what offender earns per day)
4) Regular probation (more controls than others)
5) Community punishment (service, etc)
6) Intensive probation
7) County jail
8) Shock incarceration
9) Prison

(Note: There's much in between these, as well)

ASK YOURSELF: What are some problems with this?

1. Class (those with money more likely to be able to afford fines)
2. Race (Is there a racial bias in this?
3. Is justice served?

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