Deck 10: Residential, Day Reporting, and Drug Courts: Offenders Living Among Us

Question 1

______ served 7 months in prison and released to a halfway house in Atlanta after pleading guilty to felony possession of firearms by a convicted felon.

A) Tracey Marrow (Also known as Ice-T)
B) Michael Griffin Jr (Also known as Rakim)
C) Clifford J. Harris Jr. (also known as T.I.)
D) Shawn Carter (Also known as Jay-Z)

Answer 1

C

Question 2

The work of______in the 1970s served as the opening for policymakers to abandon existing ideas of rehabilitation.

A) Robert Martinson
B) Michael Kaye
C) Doris McKinley
D) Rebecca Smith

Answer 2

A

Question 3

Punitive sentencing practices that call for______as a sentencing goal change the focus from "fixing the offender" to a more complex recognition of shared responsibility between offender and community.

A) presumptive incarceration
B) reintegration
C) fixation
D) All of the Above

Answer 3

B

Question 4

______ emphasizes the concepts of normality, community involvement, and re-socialization for offenders transitioning from institutions to the community.

A) Reintegration
B) Presumptive incarceration
C) Fixation
D) All of the Above

Question 5

An offender's ability to secure and maintain______alleviates financial pressures and allows the offender to pay taxes, child support, and restitution.

A) minimum custody
B) medium custody
C) ^employment
D) education

Question 6

Specific employment-related barriers to successful reintegration include______.

A) lack of work experience
B) employer attitudes/restrictions
C) drug and alcohol treatment and/or rehabilitation
D) ^{All of the Above}

Question 7

The concept of______is key to community reintegration and refers to the act of decreasing in the frequency, variety, or seriousness of offending.

A) dysfunction
B) cognition
C) desistance
D) None of the Above

Question 8

The most widely recognized behavior-management approach for offenders is referred to as
______.

A) cognitive-behavioral therapy
B) reparation counseling
C) dissonance
D) effort justiification

Question 9

______ is a multimodal intervention originally designed to reduce anger and violence among adolescents involved with juvenile justice systems.

A) Aggression Replacement Training (ART)
B) Moral Reconation Therapy (MRT)
C) Relapse Prevention Therapy (RPT)
D) None of the Above

Question 10

Day-reporting centers originated in______during the early 1970s.

A) Australia
B) Great Britain
C) Canada
D) France

Question 11

The first drug court was established in______.

A) Jefferson County (Louisville), Kentucky
B) Dade County (Miami), Florida
C) Fulton County (Atlanta) Georgia
D) Maricopa County (Phoenix) Arizona

Question 12

In the drug court model, the______phase may include a period of detoxification, treatment assessment, education, and screening for other needs.

A) ^{stabilization}
B) intensive treatment
C) transition
D) None of the Above

Question 13

In the drug court model, the______phase typically involves individual and group counseling and other core and adjunctive therapies.

A) stabilization
B) intensive treatment
C) transition
D) None of the Above

Question 14

Which of the following is NOT a typical requirement of drug court participants?

A) obtain and maintain employment
B) perform community service hours
C) have an aftercare plan
D) None of the Above

Question 15

Research has shown that drug courts are associated with______.

A) reduced recidivism
B) cost savings
C) ^{Both A and B}
D) None of the Above

Question 16

Halfway houses are designed to reintegrate persons released from prison or jail back into the community.

Question 17

The first halfway house facilities were built in Ohio in the early 1900s.

Question 18

State parole authorities opposed the original concept of halfway houses because these facilities provided an opportunity for prisoners to associate with each other, which was forbidden by parole regulations.

Question 19

Residential community-based corrections facilities are an attractive punitive option for the courts because they provide a restrictive setting with a high level of supervision, and they require offenders to comply with programming requirements.

Question 20

A comparison study in Michigan showed the per-day cost of prison to be much less ($35.00) versus residential programs ($64.00).

Question 21

A positive aspect of residential corrections over prison is that residents working in the community can also pay restitution and complete community service work.

Question 22

The purpose of "transitional control"

Question 23

Desistance is key to community reintegration and refers to the act of decreasing in the frequency, variety, or seriousness of offending.

Question 24

Cognitive-behavioral therapy is based on the idea that offenders think differently than non-offenders, either because of a lack of moral reasoning or through dysfunctional information processing.

Question 25

Cognitive-behavioral approaches have often been used in residential programs that target substance use and its associated problems.

Question 26

Aggression Replacement Training (ART) is a multi-modal intervention originally designed to reduce anger and violence among adolescents involved with juvenile justice systems.

Question 27

Studies have shown there is no positive relationship between improving offenders' reasoning and pro- social thinking skills and reducing recidivism.

Question 28

A number of studies have found that participants in cognitive-behavioral programs have recidivism rates that are 10 to 30 percent lower than rates for offenders who did not receive such services. TRUE

Question 29

In a large-scale study of recidivism, the Federal Bureau of Prisons found that offenders released through a halfway house had a recidivism rate of 31.1 percent, compared to a rate of 51.1 percent for those released directly from prison.

Question 30

A day-reporting center (DRC) is a nonresidential, community-based corrections program, typically for non-violent offenders.

Question 31

The goals of a day-reporting center (DRC) include rehabilitating the offender through intensive programming, providing punishment in a cost-effective way, and ensuring community safety. TRUE

Question 32

Unlike residential community-based corrections centers, which require residency, day-reporting centers (DRCs) serve offenders who return to their residences at the end of the day.

Question 33

Day-reporting centers (DRCs) are much more costly to operate than residential correctional programs.

Question 34

The cost to operate a day-reporting center is comparable to the cost of operating a jail.

Question 35

The first drug court was established in Jefferson County (Louisville), Kentucky in 2001.

Question 36

The general purpose of drug court is to divert nonviolent, substance abusing offenders from prison and jail into treatment.

Question 37

Research has shown that drug courts are associated with reduced recidivism by participants and result in cost savings.

Question 38

______ is a type of psychotherapy based on the idea that individuals' distorted thoughts lead to dysfunctional emotions and problem behaviors.

Question 39

______ is a special courtroom dedicated to providing substance abuse treatment to individuals under close supervision of a judge.

Question 40

______ is a process in which the frequency of crimes decelerates and exhibits less variety.

Question 41

Robert Martinson reviewed 231 studies on correctional interventions and concluded that