- How do correctional agencies achieve the short term protection of society?
Your answer:
by granting bail
by detaining inmates in jail or incarcerating them in prison
by rehabilitating offenders
all of the above
- What is a legislative authorization to provide a specific range of punishment for a specific crime?
Your answer:
correctional system
penal code
law
punishment
- Which of the following was a problem with the Pennsylvania system?
Your answer:
it was expensive
it made inmates ill
it had low productivity
all of the above
- 4. This correctional era advocated an environment that emphasized reformation, education, and vocational programs, and focused offenders’ attention on the future.
Your answer:
retributive era
rehabilitative era
reformatory era
industrial prison era
- The original features of the Pennsylvania system included all but which of the following
Your answer:
working with other inmates
separation
silence
reformation of inmates
- Which is the most important element in the operation and policies of all correctional facilities?
Your answer:
physical security
services provided
staff
facility itself
- In which case did the Supreme Court determine that probation is a privilege and not a right?
Your answer:
Mempa v. Rhey
United States v. Birnbaum
Gagnon v. Scarpelli
Morrissey v. Brewer
- This type of supervision is used only after low-risk offenders demonstrate a good adjustment to supervision.
Your answer:
intensive
administrative
minimum
regular
- This is a form of restitution in which offenders repay their victims directly for their losses and harm caused by the offense.
Your answer:
offender restitution
fines
victim costs
victim compensation
- Which era of corrections developed with the distinct provision that the community be an essential part of the correctional process?
Your answer:
institutional
reintegrative
retributive
rehabilitative
- Which is not one of the three most important reasons for effective jail classification systems?
Your answer:
a) They provide a guide for separating violent, predatory inmates from potential inmate victims
b) They provide a guide for identifying and managing inmates with special emotional or mental needs
c) They provide a guide for giving inmates proper substance abuse counseling
d) They provide a guide for identifying inmates with a high risk for escape
- Which was not a requirement of the English Penitentiary Act of 1779?
Your answer:
abolition of fees charged to inmates
systematic inspections
confining several inmates to a cell
secure and sanitary structures
- Who might be found in an early English jail?
Your answer:
displaced persons
the poor
the mentally ill
all of the above
- Which constitutional amendment states that excessive bail may not be required?
Your answer:
First
Fourteenth
Fourth
Eighth
- The number of offenders on probation, parole, and in prison has decreased significantly.
Your answer:
True
False
- During the 1950’s the rehabilitation of offenders replaced punishment as the penal systems primary objective.
Your answer:
True
False
- Split sentences have become more common over the past two decades thanks to the “tough on crime” approach.
Your answer:
True
False
- Community residential center placement rarely occurs after probationers are failing under the current supervision requirement.
Your answer:
True
False
- Electronic monitoring is a criminal sanction, not a method of supervision.
Your answer:
True
False
- The nation’s jails employ less than half as many staff as State and Federal prisons.
Your answer:
True
False
- There are approximately 1,350 jails in the United States.
Your answer:
True
False
- Jails are designed to hold sentenced offenders for very long terms of confinement.
Your answer:
True
False
- Intermediate sanctions provide less supervision and monitoring than standard probation.
Your answer:
True
False
- In the distant past, PSI’s were shorter, factual without opinion, and designed to avoid legal challenges by the defense.
Your answer:
True
False
- Good time is used only in determinate sentences because it allows inmates to reduce the time until their eligibility for release.
Your answer:
True
False
- Under mandatory minimum sentences, the sentencing judge may impose a sentence of probation, assess a fine, or suspend the prison sentence as long as a reason is given.
Your answer:
True
False
- In 1994, California expanded the three-strikes laws to include some second-felony offenders.
Your answer:
True
False
- The ____________is one of the earliest known penal codes.
Your answer:
- The idea that the main objective of an intelligent person is to obtain the most pleasure and the least pain is part of the _______________________.
Your answer:
- _______________is defined as the range of community and institutional sanctions, treatment programs, and the range of services for managing criminal offenders.
Your answer:
- ________________is a reward for good behavior that affords inmates the opportunity to reduce their time in prison.
Your answer:
- A(n)_______________is money that offenders pay to the court as punishment for committing an offense.
Your answer:
- The term________________is based on a Latin term that means “a period of proving oneself”.
Your answer:
- The use of technology to monitor an offender’s location is_______________.
Your answer:
- ______________jails provide common dayroom areas in the center of a unit of cells, and house fewer inmates.
Your answer:
- The time that an inmate serves in a jail or prison is the _________________.
Your answer:
- In_____________jails, staff are located in the cellhouse in direct contact with inmates.
Your answer:
- Laws that require judges to sentence third time felons to extremely long or life sentences are __________________.
Your answer:
- Someone who guarantees the accused person’s appearance in court is a(n) _______________.
Your answer:
- _________________is a system of structured sentences based on measures of offense severity and criminal history that is used to determine the length of imprisonment.
Your answer: