Deck 10: Community Residential Correctional Programs

Question 1

According to the text which of the following is NOT a reason for using halfway houses?

A) they are cheaper than prison.
B) they are in a more realistic setting than prison.
C) they are more humane than prison.
D) they can house more inmates than prison.

Answer 1

D

Question 2

What type of halfway house is designed to provide maximum services and programs?

A) supportive
B) interventive
C) public
D) private

Answer 2

B

Question 3

Residential facilities for sentenced offenders released from a correctional institution for work during the day are called:

A) restitution centers
B) day-reporting centers
C) work furlough centers
D) driver intervention programs

Answer 3

C

Question 4

__________ are community residential centers for offenders ordered by the court to make financial payments to their victims.

A) day-reporting centers
B) Restitution centers
C) Work furlough centers
D) none of the above

Question 5

A broad correctional ideology stressing acquisition of legitimate skills and opportunities by criminal offenders, and opportunities to use those skills in community settings is:

A) incapacitation
B) selective incapacitation
C) retribution
D) reintegration

Question 6

Which is NOT a criticism of halfway houses?

A) the failure to adequately assess offenders
B) high staff turnover
C) most offer an eclectic range of treatment
D) most do not accept substance abusers

Question 7

Which type of offender is often sent to a halfway house?

A) a probationer
B) a parolee
C) an offender with a substance abuse problem
D) all of the above

Question 8

Halfway houses are a relatively new innovation in corrections.

Question 9

Halfway houses are more common in metropolitan areas.

Question 10

Residential programs are generally considered more humane than prisons.

Question 11

Supportive halfway houses offer a full range of services.

Question 12

Halfway house development suffered a setback between 1930 and the early 1950s.

Question 13

Halfway houses were first used in the 1920s.

Question 14

According to Latessa and Travis, halfway house selection appears to be based more on needs rather than risk.

Question 15

Most halfway houses accept only probationers.

Question 16

One of the major reasons for the development of halfway houses is a general dissatisfaction with prison.

Question 17

One problem in assessing effectiveness of community corrections centers is the difficulty in developing adequate comparison groups for follow-up studies.

Question 18

Match each corresponding item.
-A progressive transition back into the community

A) reintegration
B) model
C) Quakers
D) humaneness
E) cognitive programs
F) co-occurring disorders
G) parolee
H) probationer
I) supportive

Question 19

Match each corresponding item.
-A picture or representation showing the parts of a system

A) reintegration
B) model
C) Quakers
D) humaneness
E) cognitive programs
F) co-occurring disorders
G) parolee
H) probationer
I) supportive

Question 20

Match each corresponding item.
-One of the first groups to start halfway houses in America

A) reintegration
B) model
C) Quakers
D) humaneness
E) cognitive programs
F) co-occurring disorders
G) parolee
H) probationer
I) supportive

Question 21

Match each corresponding item.
-A measure of halfway houses compared to prisons

A) reintegration
B) model
C) Quakers
D) humaneness
E) cognitive programs
F) co-occurring disorders
G) parolee
H) probationer
I) supportive

Question 22

Match each corresponding item.
-Interventions designed to target distorted, antisocial thinking

A) reintegration
B) model
C) Quakers
D) humaneness
E) cognitive programs
F) co-occurring disorders
G) parolee
H) probationer
I) supportive

Question 23

Match each corresponding item.
-Substance abuse and mental illness

A) reintegration
B) model
C) Quakers
D) humaneness
E) cognitive programs
F) co-occurring disorders
G) parolee
H) probationer
I) supportive

Question 24

Match each corresponding item.
-An offender who has been released from prison under correctional supervision

A) reintegration
B) model
C) Quakers
D) humaneness
E) cognitive programs
F) co-occurring disorders
G) parolee
H) probationer
I) supportive

Question 25

Match each corresponding item.
-An offender placed under community supervision by a judge

A) reintegration
B) model
C) Quakers
D) humaneness
E) cognitive programs
F) co-occurring disorders
G) parolee
H) probationer
I) supportive

Question 26

Match each corresponding item.
-A type of halfway house that offers minimal service

A) reintegration
B) model
C) Quakers
D) humaneness
E) cognitive programs
F) co-occurring disorders
G) parolee
H) probationer
I) supportive

Question 27

Trace the historical development of halfway houses. Be sure to include a discussion of the major events that influenced their growth.

Question 28

What do we know about the effectiveness of halfway houses?

Question 29

Define reintegration, and describe how halfway houses fit this philosophical model of corrections.

Question 30

How might a residential program in a rural area differ from one in a metropolitan area?

Question 31

What are the three models of halfway houses outlined by Allen and Latessa?

Question 32

What are some of the criticisms expressed by Latessa concerning halfway houses?

Question 33

What is the difference between an interventive and supportive halfway house?

Question 34

What is the difference between a "halfway out" and a "halfway in" program?

Question 35

What is the difference between a private and public halfway house?

Question 36

Explain the revival of the halfway house movement in the 1950s.