Deck 14: Prison Life

Question 1

Civil death refers to: A)death row inmates who have exhausted all their appeals in state and federal appellate
Courts.
B)any civil suit filed by an inmate.
C)inmates denied the opportunity to vote,hold public office,or enter into contracts.
D)prison administrators refusing access to the prison law library

Answer 1

C

Question 2

The ten years between 1970 and 1980 have been called ________ of prison riots.

A) the "explosive decade"
B) the "historic era"
C) the "death knell"
D) the "mainstay"

Answer 2

A

Question 3

The number of inmates who die from AIDS related illnesses is much lower than years past.

Answer 3

True

Question 4

Which Supreme Court case signals a return to the hands-off doctrine of earlier times?

A) Cruz v. Beto
B) Hudson v. Palmer
C) Estelle v. Gamble
D) Wilson v. Seiter

Question 5

Few women's prisons have programs specifically designed for female offenders.

Question 6

Which state at the start of 2010 had the largest number of female prisoners?

A) New York
B) Florida
C) California
D) Texas

Question 7

Prison staffers are concerned with two main issues:

A) custody and rehabilitation
B) rehabilitation and control
C) custody and training
D) custody and control

Question 8

The socialization of inmates into the prison subculture is called:

A) role development.
B) prisonization.
C) schooling.
D) neutralization.

Question 9

A security threat group (STG)is an inmate group,gang,or organization whose members act
together to pose a threat to the safety of corrections staff or the public,who prey upon other inmates,or who threaten the secure and orderly operation of a correctional institution.

Question 10

Brown v.Plata was a 2011 landmark case from California that dealt with:

A) Racial issues
B) Gangs in prisons
C) Overcrowding conditions
D) Female prisoner rights

Question 11

There is mandatory psychological testing,for all new correctional officers,prior to hiring,in all 50 states.

Question 12

Which of the following is NOT an element of the prisoner's code?

A) Use other inmates to get what you need and want.
B) Never rat on a con.
C) Don't trust guards or staff.
D) Be a man.

Question 13

The inmate in prison that thinks of prison as his home is called:

A) The colonizer
B) The radical
C) The legalist
D) The hedonist

Question 14

__________ is the values and behavioral patterns characteristic of prison inmates.

A) Balancing test
B) Prisonization
C) Prison subculture
D) Deliberate Indifference

Question 15

Career female offenders who have adapted to prison life and generally keep to themselves are known as the:

A) square
B) cool
C) life
D) homebody

Question 16

Correctional personnel have a role to play in preventing terrorist attacks on America by:

A) paroling the streets.
B) inflicting harsh punishments on terrorists.
C) following reactive procedures.
D) intelligence gathering.

Question 17

"Crack Kids" in prison argot are:

A) Babies born in prison.
B) Streetwise young women with no respect for traditional prison values.
C) Streetwise young women who are drug dealers in prison.
D) Female prison inmates who are children of drug dealers.

Question 18

Prison argot is the slang characteristic of prison subcultures and prison life.

Question 19

Hudson v.Palmer held:

A) Prisoners had right to medical treatment.
B) Prisoners had no reasonable expectation of privacy in his cell.
C) Prisoners had rights against unreasonable cavity searches.
D) Prisoners had no reasonable expectation to practice unusual religious beliefs.

Question 20

Within a few years following the end of the hands-off doctrine,________ intervened in the running of prisons in numerous states.

A) the U.S. Attorney General
B) the federal courts
C) the United States Congress
D) the U.S. Bureau of Prisons

Question 21

Permanent organizational and structural modifications intended to alter the juvenile justice system,including the closing of facilities and the elimination of agencies is a strategy for future treatment of juveniles known as:

A) Resolution strategies
B) Reinvestment strategies
C) Realignment strategies
D) Reinvention strategies

Question 22

List and define four different types of prison lifestyles researchers describe as adaptations to prison life for male inmates.Do you agree with the terminology?

Question 23

The principle of parens patriae: A)allowed children to become independent for "informing" on their parents.
B)allowed the state to take the place of the parents.
C)allowed the parents to disown their children.
D)allowed the state to sue parents for neglect

A) Permits the state to assume the role of the parents.
B) Permits the state to declare juveniles delinquent.
C) Defines status offenses.
D) Defines undisciplined children

Question 24

Discuss the causes of prison riots.What steps can corrections take to eliminate or minimize riots in the future?

Question 25

Prison ________ is the values and behavioral patterns characteristic of prison inmates.

Question 26

Match the definition in the numbered column with the term in the lettered column.
a.Prisonization
b. Prison argot
c.Prison subculture
d.Total institution
The slang characteristic of prison life

Question 27

The number of prisoners __________ increased more than 400% between 1990 and 2010.

Question 28

Match the definition in the numbered column with the term in the lettered column.
a.Prisonization
b. Prison argot
c.Prison subculture
d.Total institution
The process whereby newly institutionalized off enders come to accept prison lifestyles and criminal values.

Question 29

Which landmark U.S.Supreme court case guaranteed juvenile the following rights: Notice of charges,right to counsel,right to confront and to cross examine witnesses and protection against self-incrimination

A) McKeiver v. Pennsylvania
B) Kent v. U.S.
C) In re Winship
D) In re Gault

Question 30

A(n)________ procedure is a formalized arrangement,usually involving a neutral hearing board,whereby institutionalized individuals have the opportunity to register complaints about the conditions of their confinement.

Question 31

______________ is a policy of nonintervention with regard to prison management that U.S.courts tended to follow until the late 1960s.For the past 40 years,the doctrine has languished as judicial intervention in prison administration dramatically increased.

Question 32

In re Winship held that delinquency must be established:

A) beyond a reasonable doubt.
B) to the court's satisfaction.
C) by a preponderance of the evidence.
D) by clear and convincing evidence

Question 33

List and define the three different lifestyles researcher Esther Heffernan found as indicative of lifestyle adaptation in female prisons.

Question 34

Emerging technologies in three areas will soon be central elements of technocorrections.
Describe and define technocorrections and discuss the three central elements that it contains.

Question 35

Define and discuss the 1996 Prison Litigation Reform Act (PLRA).Why was this Act needed? Who benefitted from the passage of this act? Be comprehensive in your response.

Question 36

Match the definition in the numbered column with the term in the lettered column.
a.Prisonization
b. Prison argot
c.Prison subculture
d.Total institution
The values and behavioral patterns characteristic of prison inmates.Prison subculture has been found to be surprisingly consistent across the country.

Question 37

A principle,developed by the courts and applied to the corrections arena by Pell v.Procunier (1974),that attempts to weigh the rights of an individual,as guaranteed by the Constitution,against the authority of states to make laws or to otherwise restrict a person's freedom in order to protect the state's interests and its citizens is commonly known as the _______________ test.

Question 38

The National Institute of Corrections report made several recommendations calling for the behavioral and social differences between female and male offenders.Define and discuss three of the report's findings.Include how these findings improve conditions,for women,in your answer.

Question 39

Match the definition in the numbered column with the term in the lettered column.
a.Prisonization
b. Prison argot
c.Prison subculture
d.Total institution
An enclosed facility separated from society both socially and physically,where the inhabitants share all aspects of their daily lives.

Question 40

The author has listed several major issues facing prisons today.Discuss three of those major issues and how they affect prison life,society,and the inmates in the future.Which of the issues do you feel is the most pressing for Corrections to face in the future?

Question 41

Which of the following categories of children "violate laws written only for children"?

A) dependent children
B) status offenders
C) undisciplined children
D) delinquent children

Question 42

Children who violate the criminal law are considered to be:

A) delinquent.
B) neglected.
C) undisciplined.
D) dependent.

Question 43

The combination of the government agencies that function to investigate,supervise,adjudicate,care for,or confine youthful offenders and other children subject to the jurisdiction of the juvenile court is known as the _________________.

Question 44

The juvenile ________ is a document filed in juvenile court alleging that a juvenile is a delinquent,a status offender,or a dependent and asking the court to assume jurisdiction over the juvenile.

Question 45

Kent v.U.S.ended the ________ era in juvenile justice?

A) juvenile court
B) reform school
C) hands off
D) house of refuge

Question 46

The fact-finding process by which the juvenile court determines whether there is sufficient evidence to sustain the allegations in a petition.

A) intake
B) adjudicatory hearing
C) juvenile petition
D) juvenile disposition

Question 47

In 2011,the U.S.Supreme Court,held that the age of suspects must be considered when determining whether they would feel free not to respond to police questioning.

Question 48

Truancy,vagrancy,and running away from home are examples of:

A) felony offenses.
B) federal offenses.
C) status offenses.
D) delinquent offenses.

Question 49

The final stage in the processing of adjudicated juveniles in which a decision is made on the form of treatment or penalty that should be imposed on the child.

A) dispositional hearing
B). juvenile disposition
C) adjudicatory hearing
D) intake

Question 50

___________ is the first step in decision making regarding a juvenile whose behavior or alleged behavior is in violation of the law or could otherwise cause a juvenile court to assume jurisdiction.

A) adjudicatory hearing
B) transfer hearing
C) finding of delinquency
D) intake

Question 51

In 2011,_____________ College of Criminal Justice released a comprehensive study of strategies for changing the juvenile justice system.

Question 52

McKeiver v.Pennsylvania held that juveniles do not have the constitutional right to:

A) bail.
B) appeal.
C) a free lawyer if they cannot afford one.
D) a jury trial.

Question 53

Judges are the only officials authorized to conduct detention hearings

Question 54

A document filed in juvenile court alleging that a juvenile is a delinquent,a status offender,or a dependent and asking that the court assume jurisdiction over the juvenile is:

A) a juvenile summons.
B) a writ of habeas corpus.
C) a juvenile petition
D) a notice of adult jurisdiction

Question 55

Nationally,there are almost no problems with overcrowding conditions in juvenile detention centers.

Question 56

________________Juvenile Court Act created a juvenile court,separate in form and function from adult criminal courts.To avoid the lasting stigma of criminality,the law applied the term delinquent rather than criminal to young adjudicated offenders.

A) New York
B) Illinois
C) Rhode Island
D) Pennsylvania

Question 57

Which of the following is not one of the six categories of children in the juvenile justice system?

A) delinquent children
B) uncontrollable children
C) abused children
D) dependent children

Question 58

Juvenile Courts __________juveniles to be __________ rather than find them guilty of a crime.

Question 59

A blended sentence is a juvenile court disposition that imposes both a juvenile sanction
and an adult criminal sentence upon an adjudicated delinquent.

Question 60

Status offenders are delinquent children sent to adult court.

Question 61

Match the term in the numbered column with the answer in the lettered column.
a.those who violate the criminal law.If they were adults, the word criminal would be applied to them.
b.typically have no parents or guardians to care for them.Their parents are deceased, they were placed for adoption, or they were abandoned in violation of the law.
"c.those who suffer physical abuse at the hands of their custodians.This category was later
expanded to include emotional and sexual abuse."
d. those who do not receive proper care from their parents or guardians.They may suffer from malnutrition or may not be provided with adequate shelter.
Neglected children

Question 62

The final stage in the processing of adjudicated juveniles in which a decision is made on the form of treatment or penalty is the ________ hearing.

Question 63

Match the term in the numbered column with the answer in the lettered column.
a.those who violate the criminal law.If they were adults, the word criminal would be applied to them.
b.typically have no parents or guardians to care for them.Their parents are deceased, they were placed for adoption, or they were abandoned in violation of the law.
"c.those who suffer physical abuse at the hands of their custodians.This category was later
expanded to include emotional and sexual abuse."
d. those who do not receive proper care from their parents or guardians.They may suffer from malnutrition or may not be provided with adequate shelter.
Abused children

Question 64

Bullying in our school systems has become a national problem.The author lists a number of possible warning signs that a child is being bullied.List and describe these signs.What are your thoughts on how to prevent bullying and what to do when you discover that it is occurring?

Question 65

Match the term in the numbered column with the answer in the lettered column.
a.those who violate the criminal law.If they were adults, the word criminal would be applied to them.
b.typically have no parents or guardians to care for them.Their parents are deceased, they were placed for adoption, or they were abandoned in violation of the law.
"c.those who suffer physical abuse at the hands of their custodians.This category was later
expanded to include emotional and sexual abuse."
d. those who do not receive proper care from their parents or guardians.They may suffer from malnutrition or may not be provided with adequate shelter.
Dependent children

Question 66

There are several important U.S.Supreme Court that had an impact on decisions relating to the treatment of juveniles.List three cases and describe the impact they had on the treatment of juveniles both in and out of the courtroom.

Question 67

Match the term in the numbered column with the answer in the lettered column.
a.those who violate the criminal law.If they were adults, the word criminal would be applied to them.
b.typically have no parents or guardians to care for them.Their parents are deceased, they were placed for adoption, or they were abandoned in violation of the law.
"c.those who suffer physical abuse at the hands of their custodians.This category was later
expanded to include emotional and sexual abuse."
d. those who do not receive proper care from their parents or guardians.They may suffer from malnutrition or may not be provided with adequate shelter.
Delinquent children

Question 68

The Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP)has identified five significant developments that have taken place over the past decade with significant executive or legislative actions.List and define three of those five developments.

Question 69

Compare and contrast the differences between the juvenile and adult court proceedings.

Question 70

According to a 2011 John Jay College study recent models for reform adopted by a number of states can be categorized into three groups according to the kinds of influences that have led to their development.Define and describe two of the three models.What are your thoughts on these models.

Question 71

Adjudicatory hearings for juveniles are similar to adult trials,with some notable exceptions.List three of those differences and compare them to adult trials.