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Rylee Hirshenson CJC4010 Goulette 02/28/2024 Writing Assignment #1 When I returned home from picking up my children from school, I noticed that multiple valuable things were missing from my home, including expensive items and memorabilia that cannot be replaced. After reporting this crime to the police, I found out two weeks later that the thief was Karen Robinson, an 18-year-old African American woman. I also found out that she was still in my home when I returned home with my children. Since I have a degree in criminal justice, the police asked me what I would like to happen to Karen. My mind immediately went to the route of intermediate sanctions. Intermediate sanctions are less restrictive than prison but more restrictive than probation. At first, I thought prison was automatically the route I wanted the police to take because this crime was traumatizing, especially since she was still in my home when I returned. After thinking about how young she is and the things that caused her to commit this crime, I think an intermediate sanction is the way to go. The intermediate sanction that I believe should be what happens to Karen is Intensive Supervision Probation (ISP). Intensive Supervision Probation is probation with very frequent contact between offender and their probation officer. With ISP, there are random drug tests, community service, attending treatment programs, employment requirements, meeting with their probation officer sometimes up to five times a week, and curfews (Corrections in the 21 st Century, 2020). Since there is frequent contact between the offender and probation officer, as

well as unannounced drug tests and other required things, I think ISP is an appropriate choice for Karen because she is leaning more towards a higher risk offender. With ISP, the probation officer that would be assigned to Karen would have a caseload of smaller than 50 individuals, meaning that they would be able to pay more attention to and ensure that she is not continuing to break the law. Since Karen is only 18 years of age, it is most likely that she has a smartphone, which would help her probation officer keep track of her whereabouts. The crime that Karen committed was breaking into homes and stealing items, she was stealing these items to support her drug addiction. Since she was breaking into homes, keeping track of where she goes would be beneficial to her probation officer. Karen being the age she is, beginning treatment and supervision now should be able to deter her from committing more crimes in the future. Even though studies have shown that Intensive Supervision Probation does not reduce recidivism overall, I think that it would cause Karen to not continue breaking the law in the future because people can still have impact on her due to her age. An article titled “An Experimental Evaluation of the Impact of Intensive Supervision on the Recidivism of High-Risk Probationers,” written by Jordan Hyatt and Geoffrey Barnes discussed how traditional probation did not deter individuals from committing crimes and increasing the intensity of supervision would help fix this problem (Hyatt et al. 2016). The article also discusses how ISP programs have little impact on offending, but there are some decreases with recidivism depending on who the individual is, such as age, gender, crime committed, etc. This article did a lot of studies and experiments on the impact of ISP versus traditional probation, and it showed that increasing supervision with ISP would help fix the problem of individuals reoffending.

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