Match each item to the phrase or sentence listed below.
a. When an ex-offender’s poor decision making makes adjustment problems worse
b. Handle problems with recently released offenders
c. Legal barrier to reentry
d. A small group living facility for offenders
e. The removal of a conviction
f. Violating conditions of parole
g. Act of clemency
h. Criterion for deciding whether evidence is strong enough to uphold an arrest
i.Originated in Wisconsin in 1913
j.Regulate non-criminal behavior
Relapse process
Jeremy Bentham argued that effective punishments prevent__________ in the future.
a. premeditated behavior
b. positive behavior
c. similar behavior
d. coerced behavior
The number of people in America’s prisons has remained relatively unchanged over the
past decade.
a. True
b. False
Chain of command is a management principle holding that a subordinate should report
to only one supervisor.
a. True
b. False
Long-term inmates are recognized as those who suffer from:
a. physical stress.
b. emotional stress.
c. medical problems.
d. disciplinary actions.
Match each item to the phrase or sentence listed below.
a. Interacting with clients to change their behavior
b. Corrections is divided against itself
c. Problem of attraction and motivation
d.Choice between unsatisfactory alternatives
e. Focusing on prisons
f. Looking for patterns and consistencies in study findings
g. Expectations and goals
h.Assigning a group to a valid program and one group to a non-valid program
i.Achieves correctional goals through technology
j.Disproportionately affected minority group members
Personnel
The constant threat of civil litigation has forced jail administrators to develop and
implement basic humane practices for managing offenders.
a. True
b. False
The Anti-Terrorism Act imposes________ limit to file a federal habeas petition.
a. a five-year
b. a one-year
c. a two-year
d. no
The belief that execution of wrongdoers deters others from committing the crime
reflects:
a. a moral belief.
b. a utilitarian belief.
c. an incapacitative belief.
d. a restorative belief.
The following is an example of corporal punishment:
a. forgiveness.
b. whipping.
c. imprisonment.
d. religious education.
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
Largest percent of inmate population
Match each item to the phrase or sentence listed below.
a. Willingness to intervene on behalf of the common good
b. Concentration of social problems
c. Neighborhoods where arrests and going to prison are common
d. Gives back to the community through justice
e. Based in a state or local jurisdiction
f. Offenders must admit what they have done
g. Focuses on resolving the problem behind a crime
h. Focuses on guilt and fair punishment
i.Analysis of why and where crimes tend to concentrate
j.Improve and strengthen communities
Adversarial process
Some people believe that_________ factors result in large numbers of Hispanics and
African Americans being processed by the criminal justice system.
a. biological
b. physiological
c. sociobiological
d. sociological
When convicted of a crime, an offender loses all constitutional rights and liberties.
a. True
b. False
According to your text, situational offenders pose many problems for the correctional
system. Which of the following has been identified as a problem with these offenders?
a. They will generally repeat the offense in the future.
b. They are extremely difficult to rehabilitate.
c. Their crimes are usually less serious than most crimes committed by other offenders.
d. They are the most problematic and violent prisoners in the inmate social system.
The inmate code is a set of norms and values that develops in the prison social system.
a. True
b. False
In Ford v. Wainwright the Supreme Court ruled that_________ should not be executed.
a. the insane
b. juveniles
c. veterans
d. disabled people
___________ refers to the period of juvenile corrections in which reformers urged the
creation of institutions where delinquent, abandoned, abused, and neglected children
could live in a healthy environment, learn good work and study habits, and develop
character.
a. Juvenile rights
b. Refuge
c. Puritan
d. Crime control
Match each item to the phrase or sentence listed below.
a. When an ex-offender’s poor decision making makes adjustment problems worse
b. Handle problems with recently released offenders
c. Legal barrier to reentry
d. A small group living facility for offenders
e. The removal of a conviction
f. Violating conditions of parole
g. Act of clemency
h. Criterion for deciding whether evidence is strong enough to uphold an arrest
i.Originated in Wisconsin in 1913
j.Regulate non-criminal behavior
Expungement
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
Electronic monitoring
The justification for the lack of diverse educational, vocational, and other programs for
incarcerated women is that:
a. there is not enough money to go around.
b. women’s sentences are generally short.
c. they do not have the educational background necessary.
d. there is a relatively small number of women in prison and jail.
Classification committees often revert to stereotypes rather than diagnostic criteria in
assigning inmates. They often recognize which of the following stereotypes?
a. members of racial gangs
b. members of ethnic gangs
c. predators who demand things
d. all of these
Which of the following was a Quaker and the first to press for changes in the treatment
of sentenced women and children?
a. Elizabeth Heffernan
b. Elizabeth Fry
c. Elizabeth Glaser
d. Elizabeth Franklin
Prison maintenance jobs constitute an elaborate pecking order of assignments and
reveal something about which of the following?
a. They give inmates power.
b. They provide information regarding other inmates and their prison time.
c. They increase an inmate’s prestige in the facility.
d. all of these
A writ of habeas corpus requests an examination of the legality of:
a. conditions.
b. confinement.
c. length of sentence.
d. entence.
Every offender assigned to correction is unique; no two offenders are exactly alike.
a. True
b. False
A majority of all state prisoners throughout the country are housed in________ prisons.
a. maximum security
b. medium security
c. minimum security
d. super max
Examination of self-report studies of criminality has often revealed that African
American and white youths admit to similar participation levels in criminal and deviant
activity.
a. True
b. False
Which of the following is an argument against community justice?
a. impingement on individual rights
b. social inequality
c. increasing costs
d. all of these
Methods of dealing with prison crowding include:
a. reducing prison populations.
b. implementing more intermediate sanctions.
c. doing nothing.
d. all of these.
If a shakedown were to occur in a prison, who would give the directive?
a. the warden
b. the tier officer
c. the captain of the guard
d. the shift lieutenant