Exam 1: The Correctional System

During the Middle Ages, criminals were seen as menaces to the community and as insults to God.

____________________ 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.

Which term is used to describe the multimillion-dollar prison-building boom in which powerful corporate interests groups, large businesses, and politicians joins together to profit from the large corrections industry?

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

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

According to the "just desserts" philosophy, punishment is a justified only when it conforms to what the guilty deserves, no more and no less.

Discuss some of the early correctional institutions used prior to the modern day penitentiary.

The ____________________ appropriates funds for criminal justice agencies, thereby shaping their structure and mission.

Which of the following challenges the ability of corrections to function as a system?

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

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

Which aspect of sentencing views those who violate the law as "society's victims"?

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 equity goal of punishment means that convicted offenders must do which of the following?

Punishment that is based on "getting even" for violating the social contract is known as:

The general public's reaction to crime has a major influence on the types of punishable behavior and the punishments that are acceptable at a given time.

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

Under the medical model, the prison would become an analogue to the hospital.

Which of the following were prisons established by the Catholic Church during the Middle Ages for those believed to be engaging in acts that violated religious principles?

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