An intermediate sanction is best defined as "offender control programs that fall somewhere between probation and imprisonment." An intermediate sanction is a diversion program that allows the offender to remain in the community to be punished and receive services. The offender must comply with all the court conditions. Every state utilizes some type of intermediate sanctions for their offender caseload.
Intermediate sanctions have become a popular choice in the recent decade for dealing with offenders. Over crowded prisons, financial hardships within the states budget and the increasing need for sentencing alternatives are the reasons for increased utilization of intermediate sanctions rather then imprisonment.
Probation departments have utilized a wide assortment of sanctions. They range in severity from fines to weekends in jail or boot camps. The most widely used sanctions are electronic monitoring, house arrest, community service, day or evening reporting, fines, intensive supervision, weekends or nights in local jail to a more severe punishment of being sent to boot camps.
This sentencing alternative allows an increased level of surveillance and control of the offender. Society tends to be more willing to accept these offenders into their communities. These sanctions were developed to allow more community based services and treatments to be utilized by the offender, however some of the programs were developed to take a tougher approach on some offenders.
The most utilized intermediate sanction is intensive supervision; this type of supervision is sometimes viewed as an alternative to incarceration because these offenders would be otherwise incarcerated without this alternative.
Early uses of intensive supervision utilized the approach that with smaller caseloads a probation officer would be able to increase client contact and this in turn would result in a decrease in recidivism.
The next level up at the state level is intermediate appellate courts. ... They also feel that it reduces society's view of appropriate punishments. ... Rehabilitation is meant to restore a convicted offender into society through forms of vocational, educational training or therapy. ...
The imposition of a criminal sanction by a judicial authority must occur before a person gets incarcerated. ... A number of states have fairly fully elaborated systems of guidelines for felonies and misdemeanors and for sentences to confinement, intermediate punishment & community penalties. ... Yard society was harsh toward perceived enemies: "three of thirty two inmates to die would be killed by inmates after being marked by the leadership" (Kimball,1989). ... It is a court order sanction. ...
If we as a society do not embrace it and proclaim it, however, it will soon die. ... Under this system, a student found guilty of even a "single sanction" is permanently dismissed from the University. If the sanction is found after graduation, the degree will be revoked. ... If we as a society are to raise the standard, we have to do it together. ... However, this will only be an intermediate step. ...
An intermediate and unlikely understanding springs up between Sally and Brian when he takes a room opposite Sally's in Fraulein Schneider's boarding house, but their relationship begins on a platonic level because of Brian's admission to previously disastrous sexual experiences with women. ... The musical attempts to establish a diegetic world, one in which the viewer comfortably sanctions song and dance as valid and customary modes of expression. ... The ironies of his song and dance routines underscore the film's representation of the diseased society of Berlin in 1931....
Also, many more young people than the visibly group of "troublemakers" that exist on every intermediate and high school campus commit some sort of juvenile offense and many of these youth have brushes with the law. ... To the point the sanctions for such misbehavior were extremely severe. ...
By 1986 most countries had imposed trade and financial sanctions as a result of the slow rate of genuine political reform. ... Furthermore, all financial and trade sanctions against South Africa have been lifted, allowing the country to establish many new trade and financial links, while numerous international companies have reestablished business links. ...
Instead, political power becomes legitimate by the formation of contracts built between the members of society. ... In a society run by force, what Rousseau terms as "slavery," there is no room for freedom. ... Rousseau strongly accentuates a bias towards civil society and the strict construction of the formula and the functions of each of its parts. ... In Book II, Rousseau will first explain the inalienable status of the sovereign, the body of people that are "the true foundation on which all Societies rest" and then the laws that help to maintain the loyalty of its subjects (Book I: V 179)....
Instead, political power becomes legitimate by the formation of contracts built between the members of society. ... In a society run by force, what Rousseau terms as "slavery," there is no room for freedom. ... Rousseau strongly accentuates a bias towards civil society and the strict construction of the formula and the functions of each of its parts. ... In Book II, Rousseau will first explain the inalienable status of the sovereign, the body of people that are "the true foundation on which all Societies rest" and then the laws that help to maintain the loyalty of its subjects (Book I: V 179)....
