Martin Lee Anderson case Bay County Boot Camp Panama City Florida

Martin Lee Anderson case Bay County Boot Camp Panama City Florida

– What went wrong?
– Compare and contrast the benefits and detriments of sending a youthful offender to boot camp.
– What would you predict about the future of juvenile boot camps from the literature?

Using key terms from the textbook chapter:
Intermediate sanctions: New punishment options developed to fill the gap between traditional probation and traditional jail or prison sentences and to better match the severity of punishment to the seriousness of the crime.

Intensive Supervision Probation (ISP): Control of offenders in the community under strict conditions by means of frequent reporting to a probation officer whose caseload is generally limited to 30 offenders.

Drug court: A special court that is given responsibility to treat, sanction, and reward drug offenders with punishment more restrictive than regular probation but less severe than incarceration.

Fine: A financial penalty used as a criminal sanction.

Day fine: A financial penalty scaled both to the defendant’s ability to pay and the seriousness of the crime.

Community service: A sentence to serve a specified number of hours working in unpaid positions with nonprofit or tax-supported agencies.

Day reporting center (DRC): A nonresidential facility to which an offender reports every day or several days a week for supervision and treatment.

Remote-location monitoring: Technologies, including global positioning system (GPS) devices and electronic monitoring (EM), that probation and parole officers use to monitor remotely the physical location of an offender.

Residential reentry center (RRC): A medium-security correctional setting that resident offenders are permitted to leave regularly—unaccompanied by staff—for work, education or vocational programs, or treatment in the community but require them to return to a locked facility each evening.

Boot camp: A short institutional term of confinement that includes a physical regimen designed to develop self-discipline, respect for authority, responsibility, and a sense of accomplishment.

Community corrections: A philosophy of correctional treatment that embraces (1) decentralization of authority, (2) citizen participation, (3) redefinition of the population of offenders for whom incarceration is most appropriate, and (4) emphasis on rehabilitation through community programs.

Community corrections acts (CCAs): State laws that give economic grants to local communities to establish community corrections goals and policies and to develop and operate community corrections programs.