the release on probation of a criminal after brief imprisonment
Origin of shock probation
from the theory that the shock of even a brief confinement may have a deterrent effectshock probation
shock probationWebster's New World College Dictionary, Fifth Edition Copyright © 2014 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
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