Exam 11: Overview of Corrections

Research has indicated that offenders who participate in a victim-impact panel have ________ recidivism rates as/than offenders who do not participate in a victim impact panel.

The belief that harsh punishments reduce crime is based on the assumption that:

Industry experts expect that private prisons and faith-based prisons will:

Four friends,Bob,Sue,Tom,and John,have been convicted of bank robbery.Upon sentencing,they discover that they are being sent to four different prisons,each with its own philosophy of corrections.Bob spends much of his sentence in an isolation cell;he is also subject to strict rules and regulations and has no access to rehabilitation programs.Sue finds herself in a prison that is filled with individuals serving very lengthy sentences as well as some low-level offenders,who,she thinks,should never have been incarcerated because their crimes are not serious.Tom,on the other hand,has access to many different treatment programs.Finally,the prison where John is incarcerated is focused on John's success when he returns to the community.He spends his time preparing for release.Sue is most likely incarcerated in a prison that adheres to the ________ model of corrections.

A new prison being built in Michigan includes back-to-back cells,used for sleeping only,and focuses on a system where inmates work together in silence during the day to turn a profit for the prison.Corporal punishment is used on inmates who violate prison rules.This prison is modeled after the:

If Joe is incarcerated in a prison where criminals are viewed as ill,and he receives treatment to cure his "illness," the prison is centered around the:

Federal prison inmates are most likely to be:

Approximately 1 out of every __________ adult American is under some form of correctional supervision.

After a great debate over which prison system (Pennsylvania or Auburn)was better,most prisons in America were modeled after:

The original purpose of a plague town was to:

What has research found concerning the effectiveness of faith-based prisons?

If you were accused of committing a crime and have not been released on bail prior to your trial,you are most likely being held in a:

One of the most commonly used penal colonies during the late 1700s was:

Suppose Joe is incarcerated in a prison where there is a focus on treatment.The prison views the inmates as "sick" and tries to "cure" their criminal behavior.Joe is most likely incarcerated in a(n):

Early forms of confinement in England and other European countries were very different from our contemporary prisons and jails.One of the first methods of confinement was a facility where a wide range of people were sent to work;most of these people were not hardened criminals,but were guilty of not paying their debts.Another form of confinement was exporting criminals to other lands,such as the American colonies and Australia.As the American Revolution began,however,England had to find something else to do with their criminals.As a result,they reconfigured abandoned ships to hold criminals on the riverbanks.The other lands that English criminals were often exported to are referred to as:

If you were sentenced to row ships during the 1400s and 1500s in England,you were sentenced to:

Early forms of confinement in England and other European countries were very different from our contemporary prisons and jails.One of the first methods of confinement was a facility where a wide range of people were sent to work;most of these people were not hardened criminals,but were guilty of not paying their debts.Another form of confinement was exporting criminals to other lands,such as the American colonies and Australia.As the American Revolution began,however,England had to find something else to do with their criminals.As a result,they reconfigured abandoned ships to hold criminals on the riverbanks.The facility where people were confined and forced to work is called a:

A Florida study found that inmates housed in private prisons had ________ inmates housed in state-run prisons.

One of the most significant reasons that reformatories fell out of popularity was because:

A punishment that involved no torture or corporal punishment for offenders and focused on reforming their behavior is based on ________ principles.