Features

• The features of intensive probation include frequent meetings with the probation officer, required programming (like counseling) and oftentimes home detention and electronic monitoring.
  
  

Considerations

• A person convicted of a more serious crime is a candidate for intensive probation. An offender who violates the terms of less restrictive probation is also a prospect for intensive probation.
  
  

Time frame

• Intensive probation is used on offenders for periods of time that routinely run from six months to two years. An offender can be placed on a less restrictive type of probation after successfully completing part of a sentence of intensive probation.
  
  

Effects

• The effects of intensive probation is to ensure closer supervision of an offender, theoretically providing a heightened level of protection to the community.
  
  

Warning

• There are very limited options for a person who violates the terms of intensive probation. The likely result of such a violation is incarceration.