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    House arrest is "a community- based sanction in which offenders serve their sentence at home" (Alarid, pg.206). Many of these offenders have curfews and most of them can not leave their houses, but they can leave if they have a job and for correctional treatment purposes. House arrest is also called house detention or home confinement. House arrest is usually pair with a use of technology like a home-based voice verification device or electronic monitoring device. A home-based electronic monitoring

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    House Arrest Changes

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    Blake Sapp Alvarez ELA8H 25 March 2024 Expository Essay In the story of House Arrest by K.A. Holt, the main character, Timothy, changes over the course of the novel. Some of Timothy’s main character changes would be maturing & GOD I CAN’T WRITE INTROS [finish this later]. One major trait that changed about Timothy over the course of House Arrest was his maturity. For example, in the beginning of the story, he says, “[something about him not regretting stealing the wallet]” This shows that at the

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    Timothy In House Arrest

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    In the book House Arrest there is a lot to understand about Timothy and his life. Timothy lives with his mom and his young brother Levi. Timothy has it hard because he is in house arrest, and he’s in house arrest for a crazy reason. Timothy while at the pharmacy stole a credit card to buy Levi’s medicine. He bought three months worth of medicine coasting over one thousand dollars. He told the clerk that his uncle lended his credit card to buy the medicine. The clerk got suspicious and busted him

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    The juvenile corrections system dates back to the Greek and Roman times where children were treated as adults when they committed offenses. In fact, children in trouble had no rights would receive very harsh sentences. Moving forward, Europe also treated children as adult when it came to criminal offenses. It wasn’t until the 19th century that reforms began to be considered and used on the behalf of children. In the US, just before this time in Boston, individuals began advocate for children who

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    Community corrections are programs which oversea offenders outside of jail or prison. Community corrections include probation and parole. Probation is supervision within the community instead of jail or prison. Parole is a dated time where parolees are supervised upon release from prison. Some offenders are not dangerous to society. Their crimes do not warrant incarceration. The crimes are petty offences and will not be placed in a general population in prison. If they are placed in a prison they

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    Classifications of Probation According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics, at year end of 2012, more than 4.7 million adults were under some form of community probation in the United States (Bonczar and Maruschak, bjs.gov). With so many adults on probation, one could only ask how they all are supervised. With the criminal justice system already bursting at the seams with offenders, its main objective is to keep offenders out of this already exhausted system. Probation, also called intermediate

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    Another commonly used alternative is house arrest and confinement. This sanction restricts an individual to his or her residence for specific periods of time; in most house arrest programs offenders are allowed to leave their homes only for employment, medical needs, or mandated assignments such as community service or school. The emphasis of this program is

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    Through the court systems in the United States there is a major distribution of probation between the juvenile court system and the adult court system. More than 70,000 juveniles were incarcerated in youth prisons or detention in 2010. Case studies show that more than 500,000 juveniles are taken to confinement centers every year. Not including the juveniles who by pass the detention center and make their way into the adult court system where they are later tried. Juveniles stand out of any prison

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    These conditions must be met to satisfy the sanction, if they are not met the offender would be in violation and sent to jail or prison. Another commonly used alternative is house arrest and confinement. This sanction restricts an individual to his or her residence for specific periods of time; in most house arrest programs offenders are allowed to leave their homes only for employment, medical needs, or mandated assignments such as community service or school. The emphasis of this program is

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    "When she realized my father wanted to marry Princess Kara-Shutai, she stopped taking her medicine. They were married a day before she passed away and I vowed to become everything my father didn 't want me to be." "Once Xia Jiang is released from his house arrested, he will kill many, many people," said Yuan. "I don 't think I will survive that bloodbath." "Don 't say things like that," said Jingyan. Deep inside, he knew Xia Jiang was a man of impulse. He 'd been humiliated today and his wrath would

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