NCJ Number
150457
Date Published
1993
Length
26 pages
Annotation
This booklet briefly profiles 11 intermediate sanctions used in Maricopa County, Ariz., along with an outline of the characteristics of offenders who typically participate in each program and the control mechanisms used.
Abstract
The Financial Assessments Related to Employability (F.A.R.E.) Probation is based on a day fine system, which takes into account an offender's ability to pay and offense severity. F.A.R.E. fills the gap between summary and standard probation and is intended for low-risk/low-needs offenders who do not owe large amounts of restitution. Maricopa County's Literacy Program provides learning labs for the juvenile and adult probation departments statewide to combat illiteracy within these populations. Classes include adult basic education, GED preparation, and basic life-skill classes. The Victim Impact Panel program targets Superior Court probationers who have been convicted of drunk driving or related offenses. The panel includes three or four victims who are selected by Mothers Against Drunk Drivers to speak briefly about the drunk-driving accidents in which they were injured or in which a loved one was killed and what it has meant to them. Another program, the First Time Drug Offender Program (Drug Court) uses four tracks of probation supervision for drug offenders. The tracks are based in varying intensities of urine testing for drug use. Track four includes intensive out-patient counseling, random testing, and monitoring by the Drug Court. Other intermediate-sanction programs described are the Chemical Dependency Program, which involves intensive outpatient treatment; the Transitional Living Center, which services 25 nonviolent mentally ill probationers; the Sex Offender Program, which provides increased supervision and surveillance of convicted sex offender while they are involved in intensive treatment to address their sexual deviancy; the House Arrest Program; the Work Furlough Program; the Day Reporting Center Program; and the Shock Incarceration Program.