Exam 13: Correctional Administration

The federal government is tasked with the responsibility for the incarceration, rehabilitation, and street supervision of offenders within each state.

This model of management creates a formal organizational system that operates in a system that is not dependent upon the specific personnel or personalities assigned within it.

Members of these response teams are the most highly trained and skilled emergency response security staff.

__________ planning consists of ground-level planning that is narrow in focus, usually being structured around the resolution of a particular issue or something that confronts the agency on a short-term basis.

The most common type of local correction system is ___________.

__________ describes how adept a person is at noticing and responding to the cues and information that are exhibited by others with whom he or she interacts.

Bureaucratic forms of management tend to produce holding pattern management within the institution.

Regional Administrators are usually found among systems that have numerous facilities.

This style of management tends to be reflective of bureaucratic models of prison management.

Which Federal Bureau of Prisons division ensures that national policies and procedures are in place that provide a safe, secure institutional environment for inmates and staff?

When correctional staff consist of various persons from various groups and backgrounds, there is greater likelihood that biases in operations can continue undetected.

Broad managerial documents that include goals and objectives of the agency, and state the general direction in which an agency intends to operate are known as:

Ignoring the day-to-day concerns of most of their staff will allow correctional leaders to more easily develop a rapport with employees.

Comprehensive gang intelligence in prisons requires prison administers to do four things. Which is not one of them?

Emergency preparedness and emergency response are synonymous.

Sexual harassment is more pronounced and pervasive in prisons than in outside society.

A female officer who cannot get promoted due to unofficial barriers to promotion is experiencing the ________.

The sphere of control that supervisors have over employees that they encounter and interact with on a routine basic is known as:

The __________ style of management is when a supervisor seeks to anticipate and correct problems before they develop.

Which of the following is not a general level of prison management?