Question 1

What special problems face women who are serving terms of imprisonment?

Accepted Answer

A) As they make up only 5% of the prison population there are few adapted facilities for them 
B) they have high levels of self harming behaviour 
C) they have high levels of history of abuse 
D) they serve longer sentences than men 
A) As they make up only 5% of the prison population there are few adapted facilities for them 
B) they have high levels of self harming behaviour 
C) they have high levels of history of abuse 
D) they serve longer sentences than men A,B,C

Question 2

By 2012 England and Wales was the highest incarcerator in Western Europe.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False  True

Question 3

What evidence is there that sentence length has increased over the past decade and a half?

Accepted Answer

Over the past decade and a half or so there has also been a general increase in sentence lengths. Between 1997 and 2009, the number of prisoners serving indeterminate sentences of four or more years more than doubled (129%) The number serving sentences of more than four years (excluding indeterminate sentences) grew by two fifths (38%), and those serving sentences of 12 months up to four years increased by almost three-fifths (57%) In the decade from 1999 to 2009, there was an overall increase in the average time served in prison from 7.9 months to 8.8 months for those released from determinate sentences. This was due to an increase in the average custodial determinate sentence length handed down by courts between 2000 and 2004, and a decline in the parole release rate in between 2006 and 2008 (which meant that offenders had served longer by the time they were released)

Question 4

What are the main problems prisoners face on release?

Accepted Answer

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Question 5

What was emphasised as a consistent part of prisons policy - alongside other objectives - for the next 70 years following the Gladstone Report in1895?

Accepted Answer

A) rehabilitation 
B) retribution 
C) physical fitness 
A) rehabilitation 
B) retribution 
C) physical fitness

Question 6

If the period from the Second World War until the early 1970s represents the time in which the 'rehabilitative ideal' (Allen, 1981) was at its height, then the last 30 years, and the last ten in particular, have seen a fairly rapid shift in a more punitive direction.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 7

Which organisations inspect prisons and report on the conditions in which prisoners live?

Accepted Answer

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Question 8

Which factors changed the public mood towards the death penalty in 1950s Britain?

Accepted Answer

A) A series of cases where the guilt of the offender was questioned 
B) There were some cases where the appropriateness of the death penalty was called into question 
C) some people confessed to crimes they had not committed 
A) A series of cases where the guilt of the offender was questioned 
B) There were some cases where the appropriateness of the death penalty was called into question 
C) some people confessed to crimes they had not committed

Question 9

In Coyle's (2005) 'Whiggish' history, what were the two sources of the development to the modern prison?

Accepted Answer

A) prison reformers 
B) the falling crime rate 
C) the changing status of prison work 
A) prison reformers 
B) the falling crime rate 
C) the changing status of prison work

Question 10

Following a series of prison riots in the 1970s what did a Committee of Inquiry chaired by a High Court judge, Mr Justice May, recommend?

Accepted Answer

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Question 11

In which year was it announced that the first purpose built psychiatric prison would be commenced?

Accepted Answer

A) 1890s 
B) 1930s 
C) 1950s 
A) 1890s 
B) 1930s 
C) 1950s

Question 12

From around 1993/94 any official attempt to reduce, or even to maintain a stable prison population was abandoned.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 13

Due to some prison escapes in the 1960s what was the main recommendation made by the Mountbatten Committee?

Accepted Answer

A) prisoners should be shackled during exercise periods 
B) that a system for categorising inmates should be introduced 
C) that prisoners should be counselled more frequently 
A) prisoners should be shackled during exercise periods 
B) that a system for categorising inmates should be introduced 
C) that prisoners should be counselled more frequently

Question 14

By way of contrast to Coyle what was Foucault's radical historical thesis in terms of the birth of the prison?

Accepted Answer

A) a shift in the governance of the prison leading to new forms of citizen surveillance and control 
B) an end to overcrowding 
C) prisoners would be set to work to make them more useful 
A) a shift in the governance of the prison leading to new forms of citizen surveillance and control 
B) an end to overcrowding 
C) prisoners would be set to work to make them more useful

Question 15

According to Lord Woolf's recommendations, what are the three requirements which must be met if the prison system is to be stable?

Accepted Answer

A) security 
B) control 
C) good food 
D) justice 
A) security 
B) control 
C) good food 
D) justice

Question 16

Why are suicide rates in prison so high?

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Question 17

Fewer first time burglars are likely to be imprisoned now than in the past.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 18

What led to a brief decline in prison numbers in the late 1960s?

Accepted Answer

A) the introduction of parole 
B) the falling crime rate 
C) full-time employment 
A) the introduction of parole 
B) the falling crime rate 
C) full-time employment

Question 19

What was the difference in numbers of the prison population between 1877 and 1918?

Accepted Answer

A) from 10,000 to 1,000 
B) from over 30,000 to 9,000 
C) from around 90,000 to 30,000 
A) from 10,000 to 1,000 
B) from over 30,000 to 9,000 
C) from around 90,000 to 30,000

Question 20

The UK has the highest incarceration rate in the world.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Exam 29: Prisons and Imprisonment

What special problems face women who are serving terms of imprisonment?

By 2012 England and Wales was the highest incarcerator in Western Europe.

What evidence is there that sentence length has increased over the past decade and a half?

What are the main problems prisoners face on release?

What was emphasised as a consistent part of prisons policy - alongside other objectives - for the next 70 years following the Gladstone Report in1895?

If the period from the Second World War until the early 1970s represents the time in which the 'rehabilitative ideal' (Allen, 1981) was at its height, then the last 30 years, and the last ten in particular, have seen a fairly rapid shift in a more punitive direction.

Which organisations inspect prisons and report on the conditions in which prisoners live?

Which factors changed the public mood towards the death penalty in 1950s Britain?

In Coyle's (2005) 'Whiggish' history, what were the two sources of the development to the modern prison?

Following a series of prison riots in the 1970s what did a Committee of Inquiry chaired by a High Court judge, Mr Justice May, recommend?

In which year was it announced that the first purpose built psychiatric prison would be commenced?

From around 1993/94 any official attempt to reduce, or even to maintain a stable prison population was abandoned.

Due to some prison escapes in the 1960s what was the main recommendation made by the Mountbatten Committee?

By way of contrast to Coyle what was Foucault's radical historical thesis in terms of the birth of the prison?

According to Lord Woolf's recommendations, what are the three requirements which must be met if the prison system is to be stable?

Why are suicide rates in prison so high?

Fewer first time burglars are likely to be imprisoned now than in the past.

What led to a brief decline in prison numbers in the late 1960s?

What was the difference in numbers of the prison population between 1877 and 1918?

The UK has the highest incarceration rate in the world.

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