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Intro To CJ Module10
Intro To CJ Module 1
| Before the 1600s, institutional confinement usually served functions other than punishment for criminal behavior. Six examples are listed in your text book, and three of these are listed below. | Rehabilitate criminals |
| The closest European forerunner of the modern U.S. prison was known as | The workhouse |
| Which of the following was designed for younger, less hardened offenders, between 16 and 30 years of age? | The reformatory |
| Most early women's prison employed ___, as distinguished from the __ of men's prisons. | a family-style living plan; cell block plan |
| Originally, big house prisons: | exploited inmate labor through various links to the free market |
| One confinement alternative to traditional incarceration is __, which is the placement of offenders in facilities patterned after __. | Shock incarceration; military boot camps |
| Which of the following states is the first state to allow female prisoners to work on chain gangs | Florida |
| At the beginning of 2011, the states and the federal government combined operated about _____ adult prisons | 1100 |
| Over the last 200 years, Americans have developed a tradition of strong reliance of the prison to control crime. The result is that it: | Has never done very well |
| When offenders are sentenced to the custody of the department of corrections in most states, they are transported initially to a: | Classification facility |
| Men's prisons are often distinguished from one another by: | security level |
| In recent years, incarceration rates for females in the United States have ___ incarceration rates for males | grown faster than |
| Co-correctional prisons are usually ___, and security is typically ___. | small; minimum |
| A(n) ___ is very short term (for instance 24 to 48 hour) holding facility | Lockup |
| A _____ is a facility that hold convicted offenders and unconvicted persons for relatively short periods of up op to one year | Jail |
| Inmates who are vulnerable to assault by other inmates may be designated for: | Protective custody |
| Most institutions have elaborate ___, in which staff learn from inmate informants about the presence of contraband, the potential disruptions, and other threats to security | Snitch systems |
| your textbook describes four types of rehabilitation programs that are commonly offered within institutions. Three are listed below. Which of the following is NOT one of the types listed in your text? | book clubs |
| Group counseling is more popular than individual counseling in instiututional settings, primarily because: | it is more economical and there are large numbers of inmates who shar similar backgrounds and problems |
| Rather than having inmates attend periodic group sessions (one or two hourly sessions per week),___ encompasses the total living environment of inmates so that the environment continually encourages positive behavioral change | Milieu therapy |
| We usually think of rehabilitation programs as serving one main objective. Which of the following is that main objective | The less-eligibility principle |
| Research has determined that although no single type of treatment can be identified as the most effective, one feature that seems to characterize programs that consistently reduce offender recidivism is: | The quality of the program's implemtation |
| Which of the following has NOT been found about private correctional facilities? | Privatization that can substantially increase legal liability costs of operating prisons and jails |
| Which of the following countries consistently has one of the highest incarceration rates in the world? | United States |
| Which of the following is the special super maximum security prison built for the war on terrorism? | Camp Al-Qaeda |
| For which of the following purposes is most of jail funding used? | Custody and Security |
| Which of the following is a reason for the problems that plague jails? | All of the above |
| Which of the following types of jails is built ina linear design, in which inmates live toether in cells,dormitories, or "tanks", and guards at regular intervals walk up and down the corridors or "catwalks" and observe inmates? | First generation jails |
| In which of the following jails do correctional officers constantly supervise inmates from secure control booths that overlook inmate living areas? | Second generation jails |
| In wich of the following types fo jails are there no physical barriers between correctional officers and inamtes? | Third generation jails |
| Which of the following has research shown to be an advantage of direct-supervision jails? | All of the above |
| The reformatory was a walled prison withlarge cellblocks that contained stacks of three or more tiers of on-or two-man cells | False; The BIG HOUSE was a walled prison with large cellblocks that contained stacks of 3 or more tiers of one or two man cells |
| The recent increase in prison construction across the nation of late has managed to keep pace with the increase in prison populations | False; The recent increase in prison constructions across the U.S. of late has failed to keep pace withthe increase in prison population |
| As of the end of 2005, ther were 1.5 million prisoners in state and federal prisons, including locla and military housed prisoners | True |
| Classification is a one-time process that occurs at the beginning of an inmate's sentence | False; Classification is NOT a one time process, it occurs periodically throughout inmates sentence |
| An inmate's custody level indicates the degree of precaution that needs to be taken when workng with that inmate | True |
| A strategy pursued in a few jurisdictions has been to replace the traditional jail with a new-generation jail | True |
| Most prisons permit conjugal visits | False; A small number of prisons permit conjugal visits |
| A large portion of the maintenance and repair work in institutions is performed by inmates as part of their job assignment | True |
| Some states do not pay inmates for their work | True |
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