Deck 11: Community-Based Corrections and Restorative Justice

Question 1

The primary philosophical basis and goal of community-based corrections is:

A) incapacitation.
B) retribution.
C) reintegration.
D) deterrence.

Answer 1

C

Question 2

Intensive family counseling programs offered through Youth Service Bureaus seek to _______________ youths from the formal adjudication processes of juvenile courts.

A) emancipate
B) divert
C) transfer
D) divest

Answer 2

B

Question 3

_______________ programs require offenders to compensate victims for damage to property or for physical injuries.

A) Restitution
B) Retribution
C) Responsive
D) Reformatting

Answer 3

A

Question 4

What form of community-based corrections is most common following custodial placement?

A) pardon
B) parole
C) foster homes
D) intensive family counseling

Question 5

Restorative justice approaches ask which of the following questions?

A) What laws have been broken? Who committed the crime?
B) What punishments do offenders deserve? What is the best way to accomplish deterrence?
C) Who has been hurt? What are the victims' needs?
D) All of the above.

Question 6

Balanced and restorative justice is based on three basic tenets:

A) diversion, dispositional alternatives, and de-institutionalization.
B) commitment, custody, and coercion.
C) offender accountability, competency development, and public safety.
D) reward, rebuke, and revocation.

Question 7

Research shows higher levels of victim satisfaction with restorative justice approaches than with traditional court processes.

Question 8

Concerns about net-widening have led to increased and wide use of restorative justice approaches in the U.S.

Question 9

Specialized or treatment courts:

A) use commitment to state training schools as punishment for serious offenses.
B) provide programs of intensive, continuous, and integrated judicial case management to offenders with particular problems that are related to crime.
C) precisely follow sentencing guidelines for all cases.
D) None of the above.

Question 10

Specialized or treatment courts attempt to provide:

A) supervision and monitoring.
B) assessment and treatment.
C) accountability and competency development
D) All of the above.

Question 11

Juveniles who successfully meet the conditions established for them in drug court may have their charges dismissed or their dispositions modified.

Question 12

Core elements of juvenile drug courts include which of the following?

A) Strict adherence to adversarial courtroom procedures.
B) Universally applied procedures and goals for all drug court cases.
C) A consistent system of both sanctions and rewards to encourage prosocial behavior.
D) All of the above.

Question 13

Which of the following statements is true regarding juvenile mental health courts?

A) They are designed primarily for non-violent offenders, diagnosed with a serious mental illness.
B) They typically use screening and assessment tools to identify juveniles who are eligible to participate.
C) Their primary goal is to connect youth with community-based mental health services.
D) All of the above.

Question 14

The number of teen courts increased significantly in the 1980s and 1990s, but their popularity has declined in recent decades.

Question 15

Which of the following statements is true regarding teen courts?

A) Research clearly and consistently shows that teen courts are effective at reducing the likelihood of reoffending.
B) Sanctions that are used are often restorative in nature.
C) Jury members in teen courts are teenagers, but defense attorneys, prosecutors, and judgegs are all adults.
D) All of the above.

Question 16

The following questions are on Reading 11.1: Bonta et al. (2008).
-Intended outcomes of restorative justice processes include which of the following?

A) reduced recidivism
B) offender rather than victim satisfaction with the process
C) increased emphasis on general deterrence
D) All of the above.

Question 17

The following questions are on Reading 11.1: Bonta et al. (2008).
-Research on restorative justice reveals that:

A) restorative justice approaches lead to large reductions in recidivism.
B) restorative justice approaches are most effective with high-risk offenders.
C) restorative justice programs that are court-ordered have no impact on recidivism.
D) All of the above.

Question 18

The following questions are on Reading 11.1: Bonta et al. (2008).
-Bonta and his colleauges conducted a _______________, which analyzes the results from several different studies of restorative justice.

A) causation study
B) correlational analysis
C) vicarious effects analysis
D) meta-analysis

Question 19

The following questions are on Reading 11.2: Blair et al. (2015).
-In evaluating juvenile drug courts, Blair and her colleagues found that drug court youth had lower recidivism rates than the comparison group.

Question 20

The following questions are on Reading 11.2: Blair et al. (2015).
-Blair and her colleagues evaluated which aspect of juvenile drug courts?

A) the processes by which they operate
B) the outcomes they produce
C) Both of the above.
D) None of the above.

Question 21

The following questions are on Reading 11.2: Blair et al. (2015).
-Blair and her colleagues conclude that their lack of support for drug courts may be due to the fact that the drug courts they studied generally did not follow evidence-based practices.