Chapter 12
Female offenders have traditionally received tougher sentences than men for similar offenses.
What is False
100
Chapter 13
Female correctional Officers only work with female inmates.
What is False.
100
Chapter 14
A majority of people under correctional authority have a history of mental health problems.
What is True.
100
Chapter 16
Parole can be revoked for a new crime or a technical violation.
What is True.
100
Chapter 22
Corrections has a clear mission in the process of handling offenders and the overall goal of their individual agencies.
What is False
200
Chapter 12
According to the authors, in the correctional system women are known as the:
What is "Forgotten Offenders."
200
Chapter 13
The ________ is the chief executive officer of the institution.
What is Warden.
200
Chapter 14
A process by which inmates can be grouped according to custody requirements and program needs is known as:
What is Classification
200
Chapter 15
If a parolee breaks a rule, their parole may be ________.
What is revoked.
200
Chapter 19
African Americans make up 40 percent of the prison population but ____ of all the U.S. residents.
What is 13 percent.
300
Chapter 12
Inside women's facilities there has been a recent escalation of:
What is sexual misconduct by male officers
300
Chapter 13
Officers are permitted to use ______ ______ to protect themselves from imminent harm or violence.
What is self defense.
300
Chapter 15
Parole is also known as:
What is conditional release.
300
Chapter 17
The most common sanction a juvenile receives is:
What is Probation
300
Chapter 19
Whites tend to admit to more _______ crimes than African Americans or Hispanics when completing a self-report survey.
What is Drug.
400
Chapter 13
Correctional officers rely on __________ and ___________
to gain cooperation.
What is rewards and punishment.
400
Chapter 22
The term _______________ refers to the use of technology to monitor those on community corrections.
What is techno-corrections.
400
Chapter 15
Probation release is often tied to, which focuses on first-time offenders when they are sentenced to a short period of incarceration and then reenter the community under supervision.
What is Shock Incarceration.
400
Chapter 20
Retribution, incapacitation, and _________ are usually cited as the reasons for keeping the death penalty.
What is deterrence.
400
Chapter 21
________ _______ is a mutual trust among neighbors combines with a willingness to intervene for the common good.
What is Collective efficacy.
500
Chapter 13
________ _________ and loss of privileges or good time are the sanctions most often imposed for violating institutional rules.
What is Administrative segregation.
500
Chapter 13
________ _______ refers to behaviors that blur, minimize, or disrupt the social distance between prison staff and inmates, resulting in infractions of departmental policy.
What is Boundary violations.
500
Chapter 16
Requirements and rules designed to aid readjustment to society and control parolee movement are called:
What is conditions of release.
500
Chapter 21
_________ ________ seeks to re-establish victim, offender, and community to a level of functioning that existed before the criminal event.
What is Restorative justice.
500
Chapter 21
When a neighborhood is plagued by arrests, incarceration, joblessness, crime, and poverty, it is an example of a phenomenon known as: