Exam 1: The Correctional System

How did the reformatory contribute to the rehabilitation model?

Some lasting contributions of the ____________________ are indeterminate sentences, the payment of inmates for work, the supervision of inmates in the community, and a system of behavior modification.

Who believed that the law should accomplish some utilitarian purpose?

Incapacitation is based on being able to predict the future needs of the offender, not on the gravity of the current offense.

Which goal of sentencing has its roots in the concept that something has to be done to make amends for the harm or loss caused?

Which penal system is based on the belief that most prisoners would benefit from the experience of incarceration?

Prison building is often a boom to many communities who view the institution(s)as:

Discuss some of the first correctional institutions used prior to the penitentiary.

The interpretation of laws is done by the ____________________ branch of government.

The executive branch has the right to overturn or ban policies that are in conflict with constitutional rights.

Restorative justice is grounded in the concept that the government should surrender its control over responses to crime to the victim, the offender, and the community.

Houses of corrections run by local authorities to teach habits of industry to vagrants and idlers are known as ____________________ .

The ____________________ was finished in 1829 and became a model for prisons in several European countries. It had a radial design, with seven wings, each containing 76 cells, radiating from a central hub, where control personnel were stationed.

____________________ developed the "scamp" system at the Norfolk Prison colony in Virginia.

A formal entry in the record of the court indicating that the prosecutor does not intend to proceed any further in the case is called ____________________ .

The consequences of prison ____________________ are that it leads to increased inmate defiance and makes prisons more dangerous places to work.

Montesquieu based the legitimacy of criminal sanctions on the social contract.

The setting of justice policy is aided by the ____________________ branch of government

Which of the following is not a characteristic of the reformatory model?

Which of the following was an early advocate of medical treatment in prisons?