Exam 15: Creating Effective Systems of Corrections

Which province had the highest incarceration rate at 213 per 100,000 adults?

What failure of provincial and territorial governments has led to the increase in the numbers of incarcerated offenders who have mental health issues?

What percentage of the $4 billion that is spent annually on correctional systems is spent on community corrections?

Which agency has a role in providing oversight into the activities of the Correctional Service of Canada, although its recommendations are NOT binding?

What challenge to developing evidence-based practices is illustrated when recently hired probation officers are willing to use a new form of probation supervision, but experienced officers continue to rely on the old methods?

Which challenge is unique to provincial/territorial systems of corrections?

Which term is defined as, "the search for the 'magic bullet' that will reduce recidivism, lower costs, and deter offenders from future criminal behaviour"?

Which term refers to the notion that a correctional service is constantly seeking improvement, working with successes, and gaining insights from initiatives that did NOT achieve their intended goals?

Which correctional system initiative holds considerable promise but requires additional evaluation to confirm its effectiveness?

Which challenge in reforming correctional institutions is best exemplified when an evaluation of treatment program reforms finds that the programs are NO longer delivered as originally designed because there are too few treatment facilitators?

Outline and describe some of the interferences that are standing in the way of substantive correctional reform.

Which province experimented with prison privatization in 2001?

What term refers to the Alberta government's actions in the 1990s to reduce expenditures, eliminate the budget deficit, and restore public confidence, which resulted in a 32 percent decrease in institutional populations?

What practice is exemplified when an offender must wear an electronic monitoring device as a condition of release?

The Correctional Service of Canada uses the positive findings of a pilot project to foster organizational support for a new evidence-based treatment program. What challenge to developing evidence-based practices does this strategy overcome?

Canadian prisons continue to be beset by violence, and many incarcerated people are afflicted by mental illness, addiction, homelessness, and poverty. Which of the following represents the best hope for improvement in the overall system?

Which term describes the process "whereby politicians point to public pressure as their justification for enacting tougher laws and correctional policies"?

What type of breach is revealed when an investigation finds that a provincial correctional system has subjected inmates to inhumane and unsafe confinement, and has violated national and international standards for systems of correction?

B.C. Corrections uses an educational campaign based on evidence-based practices to explain the "pains" that offenders will experience under a new form of community supervision. What challenge to developing evidence-based practices does this educational campaign strategy overcome?

How many psychiatrists are available for the total population of the Northwest Territories?