Deck 13: Correctional Administration

Question 1

This model of management creates a formal organizational system that operates in a system that is not dependent upon the specific personnel or personalities assigned within it.

A) Proactive styles of management
B) Authoritarian forms of management
C) Bureaucratic forms of management
D) The participative method of management

Answer 1

C

Question 2

Comprehensive gang intelligence in prisons requires prison administers to do four things. Which is not one of them?

A) Develop strong nationwide ties to gang units in police departments
B) Participate in national correctional conferences on gang intelligence
C) Maintain good relationship with fellow management persons in other agencies
D) Maintain autonomy from local police agencies and the state's attorney's office

Answer 2

D

Question 3

This style of management includes opinions and feedback offered from both inmates and staff when making decisions regarding the operations and governance of the prison facility.

A) Participative method
B) Centralized method
C) Holding pattern method
D) Proactive method

Answer 3

A

Question 4

This style of management used a highly regimented schedule of activities that included the use of a lockstep marching model of movement.

A) Holding pattern method
B) Authoritarian method
C) Participative method
D) Reactive method

Question 5

A federal prison in Texas is within which Federal Bureau of Prisons regional region?

A) Western Region (WXR)
B) South Central Region (SCR)
C) Mid-Atlantic Region (MXR)
D) Southeast Region (SER)

Question 6

__________ planning consists of ground-level planning that is narrow in focus, usually being structured around the resolution of a particular issue or something that confronts the agency on a short-term basis.

A) Strategic
B) Tactical
C) Calculated
D) Considered

Question 7

Broad managerial documents that include goals and objectives of the agency, and state the general direction in which an agency intends to operate are known as:

A) unit plans.
B) strategic plans.
C) tactical plans.
D) bureaucratic plans.

Question 8

The sphere of control that supervisors have over employees that they encounter and interact with on a routine basic is known as:

A) span of control.
B) span of influence.
C) strategic plans.
D) tactical planning.

Question 9

The __________ style of management is when a supervisor seeks to anticipate and correct problems before they develop.

A) holding pattern method
B) bureaucratic method
C) participative method
D) proactive method

Question 10

The federal government is tasked with the responsibility for the incarceration, rehabilitation, and street supervision of offenders within each state.

Question 11

Which of the following is not a general level of prison management?

A) System-wide administration
B) Regional-level administration
C) Unit-level administration
D) Facility-wide administration

Question 12

This style of management tends to be reflective of bureaucratic models of prison management.

A) Participative method
B) Holding pattern method
C) Centralized method
D) Decentralized method

Question 13

The National Advisory Commission on Criminal Justice Standards and Goals recommendation to improve the education and training of correctional officers is an example of:

A) professionalization of corrections.
B) diversifying corrections.
C) improving correctional cultural competence.
D) enforcement of corrections.

Question 14

Which Federal Bureau of Prisons division ensures that national policies and procedures are in place that provide a safe, secure institutional environment for inmates and staff?

A) The Program Review Division
B) The Information, Policy, and Public Affairs Division
C) The Correctional Programs Division
D) The Health Services Division

Question 15

Who is the head administrator in a prison?

A) Major
B) Warden
C) Captain
D) Lieutenant

Question 16

The term __________ refers to persons who have been vested with an official title by the agency and who tend to be focusing on the process of completing functions of operations within the prison facility.

A) Management
B) Leadership
C) Administrators
D) Response Team

Question 17

Members of these response teams are the most highly trained and skilled emergency response security staff.

A) Disturbance control teams
B) Special operations response teams
C) Armed disturbance control teams
D) Mediation control teams

Question 18

A female officer who cannot get promoted due to unofficial barriers to promotion is experiencing the ________.

A) fire pole
B) glass ceiling
C) straw stairs
D) trap door

Question 19

__________ describes how adept a person is at noticing and responding to the cues and information that are exhibited by others with whom he or she interacts.

A) Academic intelligence
B) Experiential intelligence
C) Practical intelligence
D) Emotional intelligence

Question 20

The most common type of local correction system is ___________.

A) a private institution
B) a city-based correctional system
C) a state-run correctional system
D) a county-based correctional system

Question 21

Explain the role of response teams, characteristics that they should have, and the different levels of response required, depending on the type of emergency or crisis that occurs within the correctional facility.

Question 22

Regional Administrators are usually found among systems that have numerous facilities.

Question 23

Emergency preparedness and emergency response are synonymous.

Question 24

Bureaucratic forms of management tend to produce holding pattern management within the institution.

Question 25

Local correctional systems consist primarily of misdemeanant inmates.

Question 26

Sexual harassment is more pronounced and pervasive in prisons than in outside society.

Question 27

Ignoring the day-to-day concerns of most of their staff will allow correctional leaders to more easily develop a rapport with employees.

Question 28

Explain the job position of a prison warden.

Question 29

When correctional staff consist of various persons from various groups and backgrounds, there is greater likelihood that biases in operations can continue undetected.

Question 30

Identify and briefly describe the eight divisions of the Federal Bureau of Prisons.

Question 31

In participative method institutions, all major decisions are made by one person or a very small group of persons.