Exam 9: After Conviction: The Problem of Prison

________________________ is both a policy and the name of the kind of correctional facility that incarcerates those who have administrative detention status in China.

England and Wales have the highest number of inmates in Western and Northern Europe.

Which of the following is an example of a crime that one can be put into administrative detention for in China?

History tells us that in 621 B.C a Greek magistrate and politician named __________ was known for his law setting that included the extensive use of the death sentence and other harsh punishments such as starvation, poisoning, and death by exposure.

In England, secular houses of correction that housed prostitutes, vagrants, debtors, and other minor criminals in the 1500's were called:

An individual has been held in a correctional facility for the past three years for disturbing the public order.He has never had a trial.What country is this individual probably in?

Influenced by the progressive movement in the United States, some reformers in England are calling for more reliance on prison as a way of punishing offenders.

German prisons are always located in extremely rural locations.

List the seven kinds of formal social control mechanisms in China.

Discuss America's experience with incarceration.Be sure to include information regarding the progressive movement and the crime control model.

In the Middle Ages, prisons remained largely for minor offense and for those in debt, but the purpose of some prisons become expanded to include longer incarceration terms as punishment rather than awaiting punishment.

Which of the following is not one of the three key issues of concern within the Japanese prison system?

Faced with high crime rates and high recidivism rates, criminal justice officials throughout the world, except for in the United States have turned to a crime control model.

One example of a unique rehabilitative program that is practiced in many Japanese correctional facilities is ____________, which is a method of therapy in which individuals use introspection to understand the impact of their behavior on others and that of others on themselves.

Proponents of the null strategy say that nothing should be done about prison overcrowding, in hopes that the conditions will become so deplorable that offenders will be deterred from committing crimes in order to stay away from prisons.

It is difficult to clearly understand the reasons for crowded prisons throughout the world because the problem is complicated by a combination of ____________________, ________________, and _________________ factors.

Discuss the two distinguishing features of the French penal system: proportion of pretrial detainees and the office of the correction judge.

What is the name of the agency in England that coordinates in 10 geographic regions the services of both the prison system and the probation service so inmates who are leaving prison are supervised and provided with the best release plan possible?

Prison is not the conventional sentencing recourse in Saudi Arabia that it is in our other model countries, primarily because of the tendency to use other methods, such as __________________.

Which German legislation sets forth all of the principles and methods to be practiced in German correctional facilities.