Exam 13: Correctional Professionals: Misconduct and Responses

Examples of restorative justice process include all of the following except:

The Commission on Safety and Abuse in America developed a list of recommendations to reduce the ____________.

The case of Brown v. Plata resulted in the release of numerous California inmates to relieve overcrowding.

The term ____________________ refers to a group of officers in Salinas Valley Prison, California who were implicated in a variety of unethical behaviors.

Norway's correctional system includes a maximum sentence of incarceration of 40 years.

California's Department of Corrections has been, in the past, described as corrupt "from the top down" because investigations of wrongdoing seemed to be thwarted by powerful union leaders. That can change now, because you are the new President of the union. Discuss some of the difficulties California has had in the past, and what you will do to reform the union and the institutional corruption.

At the Clinton Correctional facility, a prisoner named Leonard Strickland, who was diagnosed with __________ was beaten to death by guards.

PTSD, which has been cited as a possible cause of misconduct among some officers, is an acronym for Post-Traumatic _____________________.

The Attorney General has hired you to review inmate complaints emanating from a state prison. Your investigation reveals that a group of six correctional officers is responsible for most of the issues. All six were part of the same training class and began work at the prison together. You are summarizing your findings for the Attorney General. While investigating the complaints, you noticed that several housing units were empty, while the others were clearly overcrowded. Cells designed for two inmates were occupied by three or four. When you asked the warden about this situation, he explained that it was more cost-effective to double-up the inmates. The empty cells did not require monitoring, cleaning, maintenance, and so on. He did not seem concerned that this policy resulted in undue suffering on the part of the inmates. This situation would be classified as:

Souryal defines malfeasance as

Both restorative justice and peacemaking corrections are consistent with the ethics of____________ and might be considered feminine models of justice.

Bomse classified the denial of medical care and the lack of responsiveness as ________________ abuse.

A type of sexual harassment where sexual innuendos or joking makes the workplace so uncomfortable that the employee perceives it as harmful is referred to as a(n)____________________.

List and discuss some management practices that have been found to contribute to an ethical workplace.

China's "normalization principle" refers to a belief that offenders respond best to the message that they are still members of the community.

A review by the Denver Post found that "fundamental errors" in supervision were present in 60 percent of the cases involving_______________supervision.

The scandal at Abu Ghraib had no effect on prison practices in the United States.

You are a professor at a university who believes the Zimbardo experiment was a fluke, and the evidence was tainted by the participation of the professor and the fact that he only chose male guards. Discuss the changes you would make to the experiment, how you would ethically enact it, and what lessons you would hope to be able to impart to correctional professionals.

According to the text, which of the following statements about corrections officers' unions is true?

The idea that the perception of legitimacy of legal authorities comes about when they practice fairness, participation, neutrality, and respect is known as: