Word: probationers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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"[Our senior adviser didn't know any of us. She thought we were irresponsible," says Glendon Abel III '89, one of the eight freshman involved in last May's computer case. The Ad Board at first required the students to withdraw for having programmed the University computer to print out...
Most such misgivings will remain unsettled while officials try out the range of possibilities before them. In September, suburban Nassau County, near New York City, began testing one of the most talked about new approaches, electronic house arrest. Probationers selected for the program are required to be housebound when not at work. To make sure they comply, each wears a kind of futuristic ball and chain: a 4-oz. radio transmitter that is attached to the ankle with tamperproof plastic straps. The device broadcasts a signal to a receiver hooked up to the wearer's home phone, which in turn...
Until the high-tech methods are perfected, more conventional alternatives remain the most popular. About 30 states have funded "intensive probation supervision," in which participants are typically required to work, keep a curfew, pay victims restitution and, if necessary, receive alcohol or drug counseling. Instead of the usual caseload -- the...
The experience of Ron Rusich, 29, a house painter in Mobile, was typical. In 1984 he received a 15-year sentence for burglary. But an intensive probation scheme used in his state since 1982 eventually sent him back outside, and back to work, under strict supervision. A 10 p.m.-to...
If the goal is a society with fewer criminals, then firm judgments are even harder to draw. Criminology is a dispiriting science. Its practitioners commonly caution that no criminal sanction, no matter how strict, no matter how lenient, seems to have much impact on the crime rate. But prison does...