Exam 18: Punishment and Correction

Which type of sentence requires that upon completion of one sentence, the other term of incarceration begins?

What is intensive probation supervision?  In your reply identify and discuss its goals.

The largest operator of privately run prisons in the United States is ________________________________

Fines are monetary payments imposed on an offender as an intermediate punishment for a criminal act.  They are a direct offshoot of:

Compare and contrast death-penalty arguments.  Provide four arguments for both sides of the issue.

Discuss the history and at least five functions of jails.

By _________________ a convicted offender in a secure facility, such as a prison or jail, the state seeks to reduce or eliminate his or her opportunity to commit future crimes.

Prisoners have long suffered severe physical punishment in prison, ranging from whipping to extended periods of solitary confinement. The courts have held that such treatment is unconstitutional based on the ________ Amendment.

The most widely used intermediate sanction is boot camps, which have shown to be 78% effective for the 22- to 26-year-old minor to medium-level offender.

The ______________________ Act of 2007  provides federal grants to government agencies and nonprofit organizations to provide employment assistance.

Probation usually involves the ___ of an offender's sentence in return for the promise of good behavior in the community under the supervision of a probation department.

Which goal of punishment suggests that because criminals benefit from their misdeeds, they deserve to be punished?

Which goal of punishment aims to spare nondangerous offenders from the stigma and labeling of a criminal conviction and involvement with the justice process?

_____________________________ give the convicted criminal a set number of years to be served in prison and reflect an orientation toward desert, deterrence, and equality.

Which of the following is considered an extralegal factor that should not, but may, influence sentencing outcomes?

A _______________________ means that both sentences are served at the same time, and the term of imprisonment is completed after the longest term has been served.

On January 6, 1986, the U.S. Corrections Corporation opened the first privately run state prison in the state of ______________________.

________________laws require offenders to serve 85% of their prison sentences.

What is false about the nature of the death penalty?

The Auburn prison design became known as the tier system because cells were built vertically on five floors of the structure