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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
ISP
_______________________was commissioned the first Warden of the Auburn State
Penitentiary in New York in 1821; he instituted a system that called for the inmates to
adhere to strict discipline and to wear pinstripes and to walk in lockstep.
a. Zebulon Brockway
b. Elam Lynds
c. John Haviland
d. Sanford Bates
According to the authors, a majority of correctional officers are:
a. from urban settings.
b. minority group members.
c. from rural settings.
d. college educated.
One correctional policy decision that may influence who becomes a correctional client
is that street crimes warrant more attention from police.
a. True
b. False
The prison environment affects programming in what way?
a. constructively
b. negatively
c. positively
d. impartially
Women are generally more receptive and responsive to prison-based programs than
their male counterparts.
a. True
b. False
Replacing decrepit facilities is cost effective.
a. True
b. False
Recent sociological studies have demonstrated that:
a. employers are hesitant to hire young men who have been in prison.
b. employers are more likely to do a background check on young African American
men.
c. young African American men are barred from many forms of employment.
d. employers are both hesitant to hire young men who have been in prison and are more
likely to do a background check on young African American men.
One of the key problems facing the future of intermediate sanctions and community
correction in the United States is the outright lack of community support.
a. True
b. False
According to the authors, which of the following is of particular importance for today's
jail administrators?
a. quality of prisoner nutrition
b. quality of recreational programs for offenders
c. legal liability
d. all of these
Almost all inmates will eventually be released to live in the community
a. True
b. False
Like all other government services, corrections is constantly confronted by frequently
shifting _____________ forces that further complicate administration.
a. political and technological
b. financial and social
c. psychological and political
d. social and political
At a revocation hearing, the facts of the allegation are heard and decided.
a. True
b. False
The fact that African Americans and Latinos are subjected to the criminal justice system
at considerably higher rates than other ethnic and racial groups is:
a. indisputable.
b. arguable.
c. not borne out by research.
d. a myth.
Forthe most part, working in a correctional facility is relatively stress free.
a. True
b. False
When offenders work and live at home during the week and then return to the prison for
the weekend, it is:
a. a group housing program.
b. a work furlough.
c. a reentry approach.
d. a training program.
The medical model of corrections began to be implemented during the:
a. 1890s.
b. 1920s.
c. 1930s.
d. 1960s.
Which of the following contribute to high rates of incarceration of African Americans?
a. drug sentences
b. poverty
c. unemployment
d. all of these
For health and safety concerns, crowded living conditions in correctional facilities
cannot be tolerated.
a. True
b. False
According to Quinlan, the most important ingredient in managing a safe and secure
institution is:
a. to keep inmates in treatment.
b. to keep inmates working
c. to keep inmates productively occupied.
d. all of these.
Match each item to the phrase or sentence listed below.
a. Individuals are asked to report on their own criminal behavior
b. Inequality of treatment
c. A difference explained by legitimate factors
d. Complex concept with changing definitions
e. Cultural characteristics
f. White fear of blacks will be greatest in areas where the proportion of blacks
approaches that of whites
g. Punished 100 times more severely than powdered
h.ommitted a crime in their lifetime
Disparity
Match each item to the phrase or sentence listed below.
a. Objective standard for defense counsel
b. Circumstances that increase seriousness of crime
c. Deserves a punishment equal to the victim's fate
d. The three-drug protocol is constitutional
e. Developed in the late 1970s
f. Separate hearings for guilt and sentencing
g. Execution of the insane
h. Circumstances that invite mercy
i. Reinstituted death penalty
j.Death penalty unconstitutional
Baze v. Rees
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
Community corrections
Although the correctional population has increased significantly over the past few
decades, the number of officers and staff has decreased dramatically.
a. True
b. False
To avoid the problems that result from using bail, some jurisdictions have increased
their use of citations.
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
Overcrowding
Although the idea of ______________ had been developed in Australia and Ireland in
the 1850s and instituted at the Elmira Reformatory in 1876, not until the mid-1920s did
this practice become readily accepted and implemented throughout the United States.
a. work-release
b. probation
c. parole
d. determinate sentencing
More than 3 percent of the U.S. population is currently under some form of correctional
control.
a. True
b. False
Punishments less severe than prison but more restrictive than traditional probation are:
a. restorative sanctions.
b. indefinite sanctions.
c. immediate sanctions.
d. intermediate sanctions.
a.Staff has direct contact with offenders
b. Prosecutor makes a deal with defendant to steer clear of incapacitation
c. Protection to the community by incarcerating an offender
d. Supervision under home confinement
e. Holding tanks for up to 48 hours
f. Person who provides bail money for a fee
g. Rehabilitative jail experience
h. Pretrial and probation violators report daily
i. Funded per prisoner per day
j. Feespecified by a judge as a condition for pretrial release
Lockup
Which of the following is not a purpose of gangs in prison?
a. protection
b. extortion
c. religion
d. camaraderie
Match each item to the phrase or sentence listed below.
a. Apply objective criteria to all prisoners
b. IQs of less than 70
c. Person who sees criminality as their life
d. Mental patient returns to the community
e. Julie Schenecker is one
f. Confined for life or until cured
g. Classification based on possible future criminal conduct
h. Classification based on appropriate correctional treatment
i. Classification based on seriousness of crime
j. Person who spends more than 10 years incarcerated
Offense criteria
