What are the characteristics of day reporting centers?

What will be an ideal response?


The characteristics are newly established by local agencies; accept primarily male offenders who are on probation and have violated the conditions of probation, abuse alcohol and other drugs, and pose a low risk to the community; focus on providing treatment and needed services to offenders and reducing jail time; operate 5 days per week and have a program duration of about 5 months; serve fewer than 100 offenders at a time; maintain a strict level of surveillance and frequent contact with offenders; direct offenders through phases with increasingly fewer requirements; require frequent drug tests; have services on site; require one staff member for about every seven offenders; and cost about $20 per day, per offender.

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Our current body of search law is the ongoing product of the interaction of:

a. legislation, case law, and constitutional law. b. case law and administrative codes. c. legislation, constitutional law, and administrative codes. d. case law and constitutional law.

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______ are used to assist judges in making sentencing recommendations.

a. Presentence investigation reports b. Sentencing files c. Investigation reports d. Judges’ reports

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Most burglarized structures are homes and businesses

a. True b. False

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What is meant by the corpus delicti of a crime? How does the corpus delicti of a crime differ from the statutory elements that must be proved to convict a particular defendant of committing that crime?

What will be an ideal response?

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