Exam 7: Correctional Personnel

According to the text, which of the following nations has the highest percentage of female correctional officers?

In most prisons the person with the highest rank among treatment personnel is an educational diagnostician.

In 2019 the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that there were about ________ people working in corrections in the United States.

Between 2009 and 2017 each year about 100 correctional officers were killed in the line of duty.

Inmate screening, risk and needs assessment, and psychological testing are often performed by:

The first women employed in the field of corrections typically worked with female inmates and juveniles. Often their job title was:

Nationwide in the United States 47% of the correctional officers are female.

Many people would assume that working in a prison presents a number of serious possible threats to employees. Are prisons dangerous places to work? Why or why not?

Discuss some of the challenges faced by women working in the field of corrections. Why do women want to work in what has been a traditionally heavily male-dominated career field?

Most of the inmate-on-officer assaults in prisons each year are:

What do we mean by abuse of authority by correctional personnel? List and define some of the possible abuses of authority.

List and discuss some of the duties performed by correctional counselors who work in institutional settings.

Much like police officers, correctional personnel are required to exercise a great deal of ________ in carrying out their duties.

The entry level position for most people working in institutional corrections is case manager.

There are a growing number of people with college degrees entering the field of corrections.

In institutional settings the responsibility for enforcement of rules, keeping order, and settling inmate disputes is the responsibility of the:

In most states parole officers work for:

In 1971 a major prison riot occurred at the Attica facility in which state?

Correctional officers are at the bottom of the institutional hierarchy.

Improper use of agency resources (such as taking home office supplies) would be considered: