Question 1

Match the following terms with their meanings.
-Decentralization

Accepted Answer

A)  Prison officials provide inmates to a private contractor to do labor for a specified sum and for a fixed time. 
B)  Reform movement that resulted in widespread, significant political and social reforms in many social institutions, including prisons. 
C)  A proposed plan allowing offenders to return to the community as a law-abiding citizen. 
D)  Administration of justice is left to local authorities rather than the state level. 
E)  A case history is developed to identify causes or sources of illness.

Question 2

Match the following terms with their meanings.
-Reformatory

Accepted Answer

A)  A system of prison discipline with an interest in preparing inmates for their eventual return to the community. 
B)  Exemplified the idea that convicts should be isolated to encourage penitence and prevent cross-contamination of evil ideas. 
C)  Eighteenth-century British merchant and naval ships converted into floating prisons 
D)  The permanent expulsion of criminals to remote locations. 
E)  Exemplifies use of the congregate and silent system.

Question 3

London's Bridewell House provided an especially good example of the idea that prisoners should be required to work hard at disagreeable tasks.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 4

Early on, women were transported to Australia in the hope that they would act as a moralizing influence over Australia's coarse masculine society of settlers and ex-convicts. Explain how that idea worked out.

Accepted Answer

The answer of Early on, women were transported to Australia...

Question 5

Features of the ________ movement included an emphasis on education and trade training, indeterminate sentences, and early release from prison.

Accepted Answer

The answer of Features of the ________ movement included an...

Question 6

In which of the following did the new women's reformatories of the late nineteenth century differ from those for men?

Accepted Answer

A)  Women's reformatories were built in a cottage plan with the women living in small individual units (cottages). 
B)  Women's reformatories relied on solitary confinement whereas the men's prisons of the same time period had moved away from solitary confinement. 
C)  Women's reformatories held felons only, whereas the men's prisons of the time housed misdemeanants as well as felons. 
D)  Women's reformatories provided vocational training that would result in higher paying jobs than did the men's prisons.

Question 7

Prisons developed differently in the South and North. Which of the following is NOT considered a cause of the differences?

Accepted Answer

A)  There was a preference in the South to have justice dispensed at the state rather than local level. 
B)  Religious groups in the North promoted penitentiaries, whereas religious groups in the South preferred the application of corporal and capital punishment. 
C)  Destruction brought by the Civil War meant Southerners directed their attention toward rebuilding their homes and communities rather than at philanthropic endeavors aimed at criminals. 
D)  The South's agricultural economy made prison farms and work camps more viable than large penitentiaries where inmates produced a product.

Question 8

The decline in prison admissions has been driven in part by a realization that taxpayers can get a better return on their public safety dollars by investing in diversion programs than in increased reliance on prisons.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 9

Public opinion surveys indicate that respondents believe about ________ percent of the current prison population could be released from prison and not pose a threat to overall public safety.

Accepted Answer

A)  5 
B)  20 
C)  60 
D)  80

Question 10

Western states that were able to develop stable prison systems in the nineteenth century likely did so because they kept open the channels of influence from states in the East.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 11

In comparing the merits of the Pennsylvania and Auburn models, proponents of the Auburn system claimed it

Accepted Answer

A)  was easier to control prisoners. 
B)  provided more opportunity for mediation and repentance. 
C)  was cheaper to construct and run. 
D)  avoided cross-contamination of prisoners through strict solitary confinement.

Question 12

Which statement is LEAST true of the Elmira Reformatory?

Accepted Answer

A)  It accepted offenders from ages 16 to 30. 
B)  It placed offenders into three classes depending on their achievement and conduct. 
C)  It provided extensive trade (vocational) training. 
D)  It used determinate sentencing strategies.

Question 13

Prison programs in the late twentieth century were more likely to emphasize

Accepted Answer

A)  educational training. 
B)  vocational training. 
C)  diagnosis. 
D)  restorative justice procedures.

Question 14

The reformatory movement was notable for its equal treatment of both white and black women offenders since race played no role in who was placed in reformatories rather than custodial prisons.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 15

Progressive reformers argued that antisocial behavior occurs less because of free will and more as a result of

Accepted Answer

A)  race. 
B)  illness. 
C)  gender. 
D)  stupidity.

Question 16

The steps of examination, diagnosis, and treatment exemplify the

Accepted Answer

A)  reformatory movement. 
B)  medical model. 
C)  principal of decentralization. 
D)  corrections system in the nineteenth-century South.

Question 17

Men, but not women, were transported from England to the British colonies in Australia.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 18

The medical approach argued that society's response to the criminal should be guided by physicians and should rely on medication.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 19

Transportation was used by England primarily for ________ purposes.

Accepted Answer

The answer of Transportation was used by England primarily for...

Question 20

In comparing the merits of the Pennsylvania and Auburn models, proponents of the Pennsylvania system claimed it

Accepted Answer

A)  provided more opportunity for mediation and repentance. 
B)  was less damaging to prisoners' mental health. 
C)  produced more money for the state. 
D)  provided better vocational training.

Exam 3: Correctional Practice From Ancient to Contemporary Times

Match the following terms with their meanings. -Decentralization

Match the following terms with their meanings. -Reformatory

London's Bridewell House provided an especially good example of the idea that prisoners should be required to work hard at disagreeable tasks.

Early on, women were transported to Australia in the hope that they would act as a moralizing influence over Australia's coarse masculine society of settlers and ex-convicts. Explain how that idea worked out.

Features of the ________ movement included an emphasis on education and trade training, indeterminate sentences, and early release from prison.

In which of the following did the new women's reformatories of the late nineteenth century differ from those for men?

Prisons developed differently in the South and North. Which of the following is NOT considered a cause of the differences?

The decline in prison admissions has been driven in part by a realization that taxpayers can get a better return on their public safety dollars by investing in diversion programs than in increased reliance on prisons.

Public opinion surveys indicate that respondents believe about ________ percent of the current prison population could be released from prison and not pose a threat to overall public safety.

Western states that were able to develop stable prison systems in the nineteenth century likely did so because they kept open the channels of influence from states in the East.

In comparing the merits of the Pennsylvania and Auburn models, proponents of the Auburn system claimed it

Which statement is LEAST true of the Elmira Reformatory?

Prison programs in the late twentieth century were more likely to emphasize

The reformatory movement was notable for its equal treatment of both white and black women offenders since race played no role in who was placed in reformatories rather than custodial prisons.

Progressive reformers argued that antisocial behavior occurs less because of free will and more as a result of

The steps of examination, diagnosis, and treatment exemplify the

Men, but not women, were transported from England to the British colonies in Australia.

The medical approach argued that society's response to the criminal should be guided by physicians and should rely on medication.

Transportation was used by England primarily for ________ purposes.

In comparing the merits of the Pennsylvania and Auburn models, proponents of the Pennsylvania system claimed it