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__________ of those convicted receive a community sentence such as a fine or
probation.
a. Two-thirds
b. One-half
c. One-third
d. One-quarter
Administrators of traditional correctional agencies (e.g., jails, prisons, probation) often
argue that they should also administer intermediate sanctions.
a. True
b. False
Match each item to the phrase or sentence listed below.
a. Noninterference policy
b. Rules created by judges
c. Legal rules regarding agency policies
d. Rules other judges follow with similar cases
e. Laws created by legislatures
f. Lists individual rights
g. Intervention towards an agreed resolution
h. Responsible for compensation of a plaintiff
i. Judicial order
j.Investigates public officials
Habeus corpus
Inmate labor has been sold to private employers:
a. from the first days of prison.
b. beginning after the Civil War.
c. after World War II.
d. shortly after the building of Western Penitentiary.
Release on parole has had little impact on other parts of the system, such as plea
bargaining and sentencing.
a. True
b. False
Prison programs are any non-formal, non-structured activities that take prisoners out of
their cells and allow them to do something.
a. True
b. False
a. A range of correctional management strategies
b. Incarceration followed by sentence reduction
c. Sanctions can be calibrated and made equivalent
d. Designed for young offenders
e. Compensation for loss
f. Penalty based on an offender's income
g. Free labor as compensation
h. Government seizes assets used in criminal activity
i. Potential loss to victim/system
j. Targets offenders subject to incarceration
Stakes
a. A range of correctional management strategies
b. Incarceration followed by sentence reduction
c. Sanctions can be calibrated and made equivalent
d. Designed for young offenders
e. Compensation for loss
f. Penalty based on an offender's income
g. Free labor as compensation
h. Government seizes assets used in criminal activity
i. Potential loss to victim/system
j. Targets offenders subject to incarceration
Day fine
The ________________ model refers to an innovative jail model that promotes a sense
of community among staff and inmates alike and centers upon rehabilitation.
a. restorative
b. community
c. therapeutic
d. reintegrative
Match each item to the phrase or sentence listed below.
a. Noninterference policy
b. Rules created by judges
c. Legal rules regarding agency policies
d. Rules other judges follow with similar cases
e. Laws created by legislatures
f. Lists individual rights
g. Intervention towards an agreed resolution
h. Responsible for compensation of a plaintiff
i. Judicial order
j.Investigates public officials
Precedent
Which of the following is NOT one of the four major forces that are now shaping
corrections in the United States?
a. professionalization
b. techno-corrections
c. evidence-based practices
d. increasing crime rates
In a democracy, public opinion usually has little to no impact on public policy.
a. True
b. False
Which of the following seeks to avoid the consequences of formal processing?
a. waiver
b. adjudication
c. diversion
d. intermediate sanctions
The social costs of the growth of the penal system have been borne most substantially
by:
a. working-class families.
b. suburban communities.
c. upper-class families.
d. minority communities.
Match each item to the phrase or sentence listed below.
a. Remove an offender's capacity to commit crime
b. Min/max range of incarceration
c. Punishment as an example to the public
d. Restoring the offender to society
e. Control over the amount of time a prisoner serves
f. Deserved punishment
g. Incarcerated for the betterment of society
h. Goal of punishment seeking to repair damage caused
i. Fixed time of incarceration
j.Punishment for the individual
Determinate sentencing
Corrections based on the assumption that criminal behavior can be treated is known as
the crime control model.
a. True
b. False
Assumptions about the "normalcy" of delinquency depend on how the misbehavior fits
the juvenile's:
a. disposition.
b. age.
c. attitude.
d. parents.
Historically, the________ has been an innovator in the field of corrections.
a. Texas Department of Corrections
b. Illinois Department of Corrections
c. private prison industry
d. Federal Bureau of Prisons
The majority of offenses committed by mentally handicapped people are classified as
_____________ or public order crimes.
a. sex
b. property
c. violent
d. drug
Lethal injection is fast, easy, and painless.
a. True
b. False
All state prisons test new inmates for HIV.
a. True
b. False
Match each item to the phrase or sentence below.
a. Designed for young offenders
b. Earned through behavior, education, and labor
c. Treatment is required for offenders
d. Done by inmate labor
e. Contractors exchange food and clothing for convict labor
f. Reintegration is the goal
g. Developed in Auburn, NY
h. Incarceration and supervision control behavior
i. Isolates prisoners from society
j.Sociological, biological, and psychological causes of crime
Mark system
Match each item to the phrase or sentence listed below.
a. Remove an offender's capacity to commit crime
b. Min/max range of incarceration
c. Punishment as an example to the public
d. Restoring the offender to society
e. Control over the amount of time a prisoner serves
f. Deserved punishment
g. Incarcerated for the betterment of society
h. Goal of punishment seeking to repair damage caused
i. Fixed time of incarceration
j.Punishment for the individual
Restorative Justice
One of the problems for pretrial detainees is their physical appearance when they attend
court.
a. True
b. False
a. Build our way out of overcrowding
b. Strains staff morale
c. Cheaper than prison
d. Let prisons become more and more crowded
e. Incarceration rate above historical norms
f. African Americans/Hispanics
g. Higher prison populations as a whole
h. Average U.S. incarceration rate from 2000 to 2007
i. Higher rate of imprisonment of specific groups
j.Raw material of corrections
States with higher revenues
The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania now houses more prisoners than any other state in
the country.
a. True
b. False
Restorative justice sees crime as a violation against which of the following?
a. victim and community
b. offender and state
c. community and state
d. victim and offender
Match each item to the phrase or sentence listed below.
a. Prison newcomer
b. Cigarettes
c. Values and norms of the prison social system
d. Goods and services not allowed by prison authorities
e. Where prisoners may purchase certain items
f. Method of learning the prison subculture
g. Construct a life within the prison with little connection to society
h. Take advantage of prison programs
i. Main source of inmate violence
j. semiautonomous institutions
Gleaning
New alternative programs are filled with people who formerly would have been placed:
a. on regular probation.
b. in prison.
c. in shock incarceration.
d. on parole.
The organization of probation involves three key issues, except for whether it should be:
a. paid for by offender.
b. centralized vs. decentralized.
c. combined with parole.
d. administered by the judiciary or executive branch.
Recognizance was first used in court to recognize a formally recorded________ to
perform some act entered by a judge to permit an offender to live in the community.
a. duty
b. obligation
c. contract
d. debt
Violence, rape, and health problems are direct and immediate consequences of:
a. an increase of youthful male offenders.
b. overcrowding.
c. lax correctional supervision.
d. inappropriate sexuality behind bars.
Among the most desirable jobs in a prison are those in which the inmate has access to
goods or services that can be sold within the prison economy.
a. True
b. False
Punishment designed to repair damage to both victim and community is considered:
a. rehabilitation.
b. retribution.
c. reintegration.
d. restorative justice.
