Exam 1: The Correctional System

____________________ rely on careful analysis of program outcomes using scientifically approved methods and are designed to discover which programs work with which offenders.

Which of the following were prisons established by the Church in the Middle Ages for those involved in offensive acts such as incest and magic?

Beccaria and Bentham both believed that the goal of the state should be deterrence, not revenge.

Sally is a new recruit in a state correctional academy class. She has no prior knowledge of the criminal justice system and has never been in a prison before. During the first week of class she learns the fundamentals of the criminal justice system and, specifically, the correctional system. If Sally graduates from the academy, she will end up working for the state that has the largest correctional population. Which state is this?

Which of the following is NOT a privately run prison corporation?

The Auburn cellblock became a model for prisons in several European countries.

Identifying high-rate offenders and providing for their long-term incarceration is known as ____________________ .

The ____________________ is the region in the United States with the highest rate of imprisonment.

The first large prisons to hold convicted criminals can be traced back to European dungeons of the Middle Ages.

Which position on punishment is most closely linked to retribution?

The ____________________ is t he idea that criminality is a sickness that can be cured through psychological intervention.

What is the name of the policy that promotes sentencing repeat offenders to long prison terms while granting first-time and nonviolent offenders shorter and more lenient sentences?

Which was the first institution to pay wages to prisoners as a reward for diligence and productivity?

Sally is a new recruit in a state correctional academy class. She has no prior knowledge of the criminal justice system and has never been in a prison before. During the first week of class she learns the fundamentals of the criminal justice system and, specifically, the correctional system. Based on what Sally learned in her first week in the academy, which would not be one of the agencies of justice?

Sally is a new recruit in a state correctional academy class. She has no prior knowledge of the criminal justice system and has never been in a prison before. During the first week of class she learns the fundamentals of the criminal justice system and, specifically, the correctional system. Sally is surprised to learn that many suspects are released before trial because the case is dismissed by the prosecutor. This is the practice of:

During the sentencing phase in his courtroom, Judge Jones gives a little speech to all the defendants who are found guilty of a crime. He does this to explain to the defendants the goals and the philosophy of punishment. Jane is being sentenced for the crime of vehicular manslaughter. She got into a car accident one morning while she was texting her boyfriend and driving on her way to work. The judge wants to use Jane as an example that texting while driving is very dangerous. He sentences her to five years in prison, hoping that others will be discouraged from also texting while driving. The goal of Jane's punishment is:

Government figures show that an African American male born today has a one in three chance of spending at least a year in prison at some point in his life.

The correctional population continues to:

The philosophy of general deterrence focuses on the fact that individual offenders should learn firsthand that crime does not pay when they experience harsh criminal penalties.

Prison crowding leads to increased inmate defiance and makes prisons more dangerous.