Deck 9: Community-Based Programs

Question 1

The reintegration philosophy assumes that the ________.

A) receiving community should be hardened to protect itself from the offender
B) offender must be removed from the receiving community
C) offender and the receiving community must remain stable
D) offender and the receiving community must be changed

Answer 1

offender and the receiving community must be changed

Question 2

Which of the following does the victim-centered approach emphasize?

A) communication
B) safety
C) healing
D) justice

Answer 2

healing

Question 3

What is the most popular of the restorative strategies?

A) community service
B) victim-offender conferencing and community restitution
C) split sentencing
D) community corrections

Answer 3

victim-offender conferencing and community restitution

Question 4

What vocational training program for high-risk youths offers pre-apprenticeship training and job training for adjudicated juveniles referred to the program?

A) Project CRAFT
B) Washington County Juvenile Leader program
C) Pre-Apprenticeship Qualification Training
D) SafeFutures

Question 5

What has become big business and has sparked the interests of investors from all walks of life?

A) commutation
B) privatization
C) litigation
D) affiliation

Question 6

Which of the following provides for a state subsidy to any county or group of counties that chooses to develop its own community corrections system?

A) community courts
B) community restitution
C) community dispute resolution
D) community corrections acts

Question 7

A program set up to emphasize social resistance training to help students identify pressures to use drugs is ________.

A) Multidimensional Treatment Foster Care
B) Promoting Alternative Thinking Strategies
C) Life Skills Training
D) Incredible Years

Question 8

Which of the following is a characteristic of violent juvenile and delinquency prevention programs?

A) create an encouraging environment for delinquents
B) stop the penetration of youthful offenders into the juvenile justice system
C) remove teens from the streets
D) create services such as hotlines and drop-in and truancy centers

Question 9

The founders of the Chicago Area Projects were ________ and ________.

A) Bartollas; Dinitz
B) Waldo; Silverman
C) Shaw; McKay
D) Glueck; Glueck

Question 10

Which of the following is the best-known and largest mentoring program in the nation?

A) Life Skills Training
B) Incredible Years
C) Bully Prevention Program
D) Big Brothers/Big Sisters of America

Question 11

Which of the following best describes what police diversion programs do?

A) give control of youthful offenders to the family
B) give control of youthful offenders to the community
C) give control of youthful offenders to probation officers
D) keeping juveniles outside the formal justice system

Question 12

Which of the following models for the teen courts has youth attorneys presenting cases to a panel of three youth judges?

A) adult judge
B) youth judge
C) tribunal
D) peer jury

Question 13

Which of the following states the purpose of juvenile mediation programs best?

A) to restructure the social environment and secondary schools in order to provide fewer opportunities for bullying
B) to convince violent offenders to drop gang membership and hold steady jobs
C) to get drug addicts into residential treatment programs and a job after release
D) to get all involved parties to resolve differences without court involvement

Question 14

Which of the following has a goal of promoting accountability of both juvenile offenders and those who provide services to them?

A) multi-systemic therapy
B) OJJDP
C) juvenile drug court
D) diversion court

Question 15

Which of the following options describes the requirements of day treatment programs best?

A) mandated by the courts
B) voluntary participation
C) more costly than residential placements
D) require larger numbers of highly specialized and skilled staff compared to residential programs

Question 16

Which of the following is a characteristic of the Associated Marine Institutes (AMI)?

A) AMIs avoid the geographical focus of the community.
B) AMIs set individual goals during the training period.
C) AMIs are publicly operated.
D) AMIs programs do not include nonresidential placements.

Question 17

Which of the following is an incorrect statement concerning day treatment programs?

A) Project New Pride was one of the most unpromising programs.
B) Day treatment programs were used less in the 1980s and early 1990s than they were in the 1970s.
C) Non-residential programs have been used by the California Treatment Projects.
D) Non-residential programs generally serve males.

Question 18

For a community-based program to be effective, a department should ________.

A) emphasize institutionalization to make all youths aware of consequences
B) start a program from scratch so that the public accepts it
C) mount a widespread public education program to seek support from the public
D) place all troubled youths into the program irrespective of the consequences

Question 19

Which of the following has been shown through an increasing number of studies?

A) Community-based correctional programs are losing popularity.
B) Community-based correctional programs have an abundance of citizen involvement.
C) Community-based correctional programs have no effect on recidivism rates.
D) Community-based correctional programs are less expensive than confinement.

Question 20

Which of the following statements is True?

A) Once a site for a community based program has been chosen, all interested parties feel it is best to keep it a secret from the community.
B) Once a site for a community based program has been chosen, most parties involved feel the community is more likely to accept a new program than an established one.
C) Once a site for a community based program has been chosen, some of the parties involved feel it is dishonest to keep it secret from the community.
D) Once a site for a community based program has been chosen, all interested parties feel it is best to inform the community.

Question 21

Reintegration philosophy argues that youths must be changed because communities cannot change.

Question 22

Juvenile institutions are the backbone of the corrections system.

Question 23

SafeFutures attempts to provide for continuing care responsive to the needs of youths.

Question 24

All community-based programs are juvenile court sponsored.

Question 25

The Mobilization for Youth programs is an example of primary prevention.

Question 26

The Project Toward No Drug Abuse targets high school youth ages fourteen to nineteen who are at risk for drug abuse.

Question 27

Promoting Alternative Thinking Strategies (PATHS) has resulted in positive behavioral changes related to hyperactivity, peer aggression, and conduct problems.

Question 28

Community and diversion programs primarily offer services to serious offenders.

Question 29

Teen courts tend to catch youths later than regular juvenile courts.

Question 30

Youth courts do not involve the participation of youth members of the community.

Question 31

Group residences or halfway houses are designed to serve between 13 to 35 youths.

Question 32

Day treatment programs are more economical than residential placement programs.

Question 33

The original Associated Marine Institute (AMI) was publicly operated.

Question 34

The conservative approach argues that only youths most likely to be helped should be kept in the community.

Question 35

Increasing numbers of studies demonstrate empirically that many community-based correctional programs reduce recidivism and are less expensive than confinement.

Question 36

Community-based corrections rest on a ________ philosophy.

Question 37

Providing justice through a continuum of ________, ranging from diversion programs to being placed in community correctional facilities, is one of the exciting innovations in juvenile corrections today.

Question 38

States encourage local communities to adopt community-based correction by offering ________.

Question 39

According to Anne Newton, ________ prevention is directed at modifying conditions in the physical and social environment at large.

Question 40

An example of primary ________ is the 1960s Mobilization for Youth program, which took place in a sixty-seven-block area of Manhattan's Lower East Side in New York City.

Question 41

Multisystemic ________ provides cost-effective community-based clinical treatment of chronic and violent juvenile offenders who are at high risk of out-of-home placement.

Question 42

________ courts are known also as teen, peer, or student courts.

Question 43

Most youth courts are used as a ________ option for first-time offenders ages eleven to seventeen who are charged with misdemeanor nonviolent offenses.

Question 44

Programs in which youths spend each day in the program and return home in the evenings are called day ________ programs.

Question 45

A single dwelling owned or rented by an agency that is used to house juveniles is called a ________ home.

Question 46

Improving the continuum of services for juveniles in a community usually requires a strong emphasis on ________.

Question 47

Advocates of keeping the community informed as soon as a site for a program is chosen claim that to do otherwise is ________.

Question 48

Match each term with its description.

-1970s

A) First National Public Awareness Campaign is launched for youth courts.
B) The early establishment of several dozen local youth court programs.
C) Local youth court programs proliferated and spread across state lines.
D) Community service as a new approach to deal with juvenile offenders.

Question 49

Match each term with its description.

-1980s

A) First National Public Awareness Campaign is launched for youth courts.
B) The early establishment of several dozen local youth court programs.
C) Local youth court programs proliferated and spread across state lines.
D) Community service as a new approach to deal with juvenile offenders.

Question 50

Match each term with its description.

-1990s

A) First National Public Awareness Campaign is launched for youth courts.
B) The early establishment of several dozen local youth court programs.
C) Local youth court programs proliferated and spread across state lines.
D) Community service as a new approach to deal with juvenile offenders.

Question 51

Match each term with its description.

-2002

A) First National Public Awareness Campaign is launched for youth courts.
B) The early establishment of several dozen local youth court programs.
C) Local youth court programs proliferated and spread across state lines.
D) Community service as a new approach to deal with juvenile offenders.

Question 52

Match each term with its description.

-1997-2008

A) Senate approved September 6th as National Youth Court Month
B) The American Youth Policy Forum held a briefing for policy makers
C) Communities benefitted by collaboration with OJJDP in pilot projects
D) Growth that led to the emergence of a National Youth Court Movement

Question 53

Match each term with its description.

-2005

A) Senate approved September 6th as National Youth Court Month
B) The American Youth Policy Forum held a briefing for policy makers
C) Communities benefitted by collaboration with OJJDP in pilot projects
D) Growth that led to the emergence of a National Youth Court Movement

Question 54

Match each term with its description.

-2006

A) Senate approved September 6th as National Youth Court Month
B) The American Youth Policy Forum held a briefing for policy makers
C) Communities benefitted by collaboration with OJJDP in pilot projects
D) Growth that led to the emergence of a National Youth Court Movement

Question 55

Match each term with its description.

-1996

A) Senate approved September 6th as National Youth Court Month
B) The American Youth Policy Forum held a briefing for policy makers
C) Communities benefitted by collaboration with OJJDP in pilot projects
D) Growth that led to the emergence of a National Youth Court Movement

Question 56

Match each term with its description.

-Tribunal

A) Youth attorneys present a case to a panel of three youth judges
B) Wilderness treatment program
C) Nonresidential program that does not provide living quarters
D) Program that includes living quarters

Question 57

Match each term with its description.

-Day Treatment

A) Youth attorneys present a case to a panel of three youth judges
B) Wilderness treatment program
C) Nonresidential program that does not provide living quarters
D) Program that includes living quarters

Question 58

Match each term with its description.

-Outward Bound

A) Youth attorneys present a case to a panel of three youth judges
B) Wilderness treatment program
C) Nonresidential program that does not provide living quarters
D) Program that includes living quarters

Question 59

Match each term with its description.

-Halfway House

A) Youth attorneys present a case to a panel of three youth judges
B) Wilderness treatment program
C) Nonresidential program that does not provide living quarters
D) Program that includes living quarters

Question 60

Why is restorative justice sometimes viewed as a victim-centered approach?

Question 61

Describe Anne Newton's three levels of delinquency prevention and its effectiveness.

Question 62

Describe the AMI. What programs does it currently offer to communities?

Question 63

Scenario: You are a probation officer writing up recommendations for two juvenile offenders. Maria is a 17-year-old pregnant female who was arrested with her boyfriend for car theft and high-speed pursuit. Matt, Maria's fiancé, is 17 years old and is the father of the baby. Matt and Maria stole the vehicle because neither of them have a job, but needed to find a way to get to job interviews. You have two choices for placement and neither one allows both of the juveniles to be there together. Your choices are Project CRAFT and SafeFutures, Which one would be the best place for Matt?

Question 64

Scenario: A youthful offender appears before a judge exhibiting low self-esteem and a tendency to follow the lead of his criminal friends.
Question: What paraprofessional program might be the best fit between Outward Bound and Family First?