Deck 9: Classification, Case Management, and Treatment

Question 1

What term refers to aspects in an offender's life such as education, mental health, social networks, employment, accommodation, drugs and alcohol, attitudes, and cognitive skills?

A) criminogenic needs
B) bio-genetic-social levels
C) habitual criminal statistics
D) psycho/cognitive aspects of life

Answer 1

criminogenic needs

Question 2

Who bears the primary responsibility for case management in federal institutions?

A) wardens
B) psychologists
C) correctional officers
D) institutional parole officers

Answer 2

institutional parole officers

Question 3

What term refers to identifying an offender's risks and needs; determining his need to complete substance abuse and violence prevention programming; and deciding on the best institution to house him, based on his needs and programming requirements?

A) risk analysis
B) risk assessment
C) risk management
D) risk classification

Answer 3

risk analysis

Question 4

What three areas are examined in the Offender Intake Assessment?

A) psychological, genetic, behavioural
B) behavioural, cognitive, cultural
C) psychological, personality, behavioural
D) therapeutic, rehabilitation, reintegration

Question 5

What type of risk factor is targeted when an inmate completes a trades training certificate program while incarcerated?

A) static
B) dynamic
C) offending
D) antisocial

Question 6

Which term is defined as "structured professional judgment"?

A) expertise
B) discretion
C) risk analysis
D) risk assessment

Question 7

Which risk factors are defined as contributing "to a person's propensity to commit criminal offences"?

A) static risk factors
B) dynamic risk factors
C) antisocial risk factors
D) criminogenic risk factors

Question 8

What instrument is used to identify those offenders who are most likely to reoffend upon release from the institution if NO treatment intervention occurs?

A) risk assessment
B) offender needs score
C) safety by the numbers
D) risk classification

Question 9

Which risk assessment tool is used to determine the level of risk and classification level of a newly admitted adult male offender?

A) LS/CMI
B) OIA-Revised
C) Custody Rating Scale
D) Psychopathy Check List

Question 10

An adult male sex offender has entered the federal correctional system for sexually assaulting a 10-year-old girl. Which risk assessment tool is used to evaluate the probability that he will reoffend?

A) SARA
B) SRS for men
C) SIRS-R 2001
D) STATIC 2002

Question 11

Which plan has been defined as a key component of the "process that determines the offender's institutional placement, specific treatment or training opportunities, and preparation for release"?

A) the release plan
B) the treatment plan
C) the correctional plan
D) the management plan

Question 12

The average offender who enters prison is offered a variety of programs to facilitate rehabilitation and reintegration. Which programs are most frequently utilized by the correctional staff?

A) GED (high school) and math tutoring
B) sex addiction therapy and marriage counselling
C) family and lifestyles training, conflict resolution
D) substance abuse, family violence, and anger management

Question 13

What percentage of the Correctional Service of Canada's annual budget is spent on correctional programming?

A) approximately 2%
B) approximately 7%
C) approximately 12%
D) approximately 17%

Question 14

What does preliminary research evidence reveal about the outcomes for participants in the Integrated Correctional Program Model?

A) Participants have lower program completion rates.
B) Participants have lower recidivism rates upon release.
C) Participants experience shorter wait times to access programs.
D) Participants experience greater success in securing employment upon release.

Question 15

Denial of any wrong is an integral part of the psyche of the sex offender. As a result, which approach is used in the present-day treatment of sex offenders?

A) a multidisciplinary approach
B) a one-on-one approach
C) a shaming approach
D) a cognitive restructuring approach

Question 16

Which program matches a community volunteer with an offender, and attracts active involvement from college and university students?

A) A Helping Hand
B) M2/W2 - man to man/woman to woman
C) Elizabeth Fry Society
D) Saving Face

Question 17

Which concept is exemplified when an inmate enters prison and states he is NOT willing to participate in any type of correctional treatment programming?

A) differential treatment availability
B) differential amenability to change
C) differential treatment effectiveness
D) differential amenability to treatment

Question 18

What issue must be addressed if treatment interventions are to work, even when inmates have access and are amenable to treatment, and particularly for inmates of racialized groups?

A) relevance of treatment
B) cultural/religious recognition
C) ethnic diversity in staffing
D) swift and sure justice

Question 19

Which offender group has the lowest rate of program completion?

A) women offenders
B) lower-risk inmates
C) Indigenous inmates
D) inmates who have more education

Question 20

What obstacle to effective correctional treatment is exemplified when a new staff member with minimal training conducts violence prevention programming for high-risk inmates, facilitates the program without referring to the manual, and participants in her group later show high rates of recidivism?

A) program drift
B) program fidelity
C) program integrity
D) program deviation

Question 21

What concept of care encourages prisoners to participate in and complete recommended programs and suggests programs that prisoners can continue after their release?

A) Let Life Begin
B) Detention/Release Planning
C) The After-Release Program
D) Throughcare

Question 22

Which term refers to the action of reoffending?

A) recidivism
B) calculated time
C) social/prisoner gamble
D) program drift

Question 23

What was Dr. Robert Martinson's original conclusion about prison programs, which he later recanted?

A) Programs work well.
B) With a few exceptions, NO programs work.
C) More study is needed.
D) 50% work and 50% do NOT work

Question 24

What does research evidence reveal about the effectiveness of correctional treatment programs?

A) Participation alters offender risk and need ratings.
B) Participation increases the misconduct in institutions.
C) Effective programming results in 20 to 60 percent reductions in recidivism.
D) Effective programming saves money, providing higher returns per dollar on investment.

Question 25

What documents and information are gathered during the classification of a prisoner?

Question 26

Identify and describe the outcomes of the five phases of case management that allow an institution to readily assess, treat, and follow a prisoner's life while imprisoned.