Exam 8: The Corrections Experience for Staff

The ______ was an investigation into the effects of authority and was discontinued after mere days when it found that guards quickly began to abuse inmates.

Ill-informed choices and unethical behavior can result when correctional officers ______.

An abuse of power would be most likely to occur when most of the staff members are ______.

Which of the following scenarios best represents a human service role?

Discuss and explain the two roles that correctional staff can take on.

You are in charge of hiring new staff at a correctional facility where there have been several ethical violations. What method would be most helpful to use during hiring to ensure that ethical guidelines are followed in the future?

Prior military service is not a valuable attribute of those working in corrections.

Most correctional officers focus on ______, serving as advocates for inmates and helping them transition into prison life.

How are correctional officers in the role of the street-level bureaucrat?

A hack is most likely to focus on ______ in their interactions with inmates.

Compared to other professions, the typical correctional job ______.

Two different correctional roles include the correctional officer and the ______.

Staff are more likely to abuse their power when they are not supervised.

Which of the following scenarios most suggests the presence of a negative subculture?

Correctional officers and probation officers have the same roles.

Why might a former military service member feel more comfortable than non-military officers in a correctional workplace?

Over the past several decades, the number of people working in state and local corrections has ______.

What makes it more likely for a subculture's norms to diverge from those of the broader community?

An officer is helping a group of inmates smuggled contraband, usually prescription pills, into the facility in exchange for cooperation and a cut of the profit. This is an example of ______.

Everyone who works in a criminal justice agency starts as a street-level bureaucrat.