Chapter 10 review Criminal justice

Jeremy Bentham's "all-seeing" or "inspection-house" prison design was known as the penitentiary.

False

Most prisons permit conjugal visits t or f

False

The recent increase in prison construction across the nation of late has managed to keep pace with the increase in prison populations

False

The reformatory was a walled prison with large cellblocks that contained stacks of three or more tiers of one-or two-man cells. t or f

False

An inmate's custody level indicates the degree of precaution that needs to be taken when working with that inmate. t or f

True

Some states do not pay inmates for their work. t ro f

True

Which of the following states that prisoners should receive no service or program superior to the services and programs available to free citizens without charge?

b. The less-eligibility principle

Most early women's prison employed _________, as distinguished from the _________ of men's prisons.

b. a family-style living plan; cell-block plan

Which of the following states is the first state to allow female prisoners to work on chain gangs

Arizona

Classification is a one-time process that occurs at the beginning of an inmate's sentence. T or F

False

As of the end of 2007, there were 1.5 million prisoners in state and federal prisons, including local and military housed prisoners. t or f

False

A large portion of the maintenance and repair work in institutions is performed by inmates as part of their job assignments. t or f

True

A strategy pursued in a few jurisdictions has been to replace the traditional jail with a new-generation jail. t or f

True

The majority of federal inmates are serving time for drug offenses. t or f

True

Cesare Beccaria believed that punishment should be swift and certain.

TrueMost prisons permit conjugal visits

What was the approximate average annual cost of incarceration per prison inmate in 2007?

a. $28,000

At the beginning of 2011, the states and the federal government combined operated about _________ adult prisons

a. 1100

John Howard's 1777 book, The State of the Prisons in England and Wales, stated several opinions about how to improve prison conditions. Which of the following is NOT one of Howard's opinions, as discussed in your textbook?

a. Complete rehabilitation of prisoners is impossible

Which of the following has research shown to be an advantage of direct-supervision jails?

a. all choices are correct

When offenders are sentenced to the custody of the department of corrections in most states, they are transported initially to a:

a. classification facility

For which of the following purposes is most of jail funding used?

a. custody and security

Which of the following has NOT been found about private correctional facilities?

a. privatization can substantially increase legal liability costs of operating prisons and jails

In which of the following types of jails do correctional officers constantly supervise inmates from secure control booths that overlook inmate living areas? Selected:

a. second-generation jails

Co-correctional prisons are usually ________, and security is typically ________.

a. small; minimum

The closest European forerunner of the modern U.S. prison was known as:

a. the workhouse

In which of the following types of jails are there no physical barriers between correctional officers and inmates?

a. third-generation jails

In 2006, what percent of state prison inmate deaths were attributable to AIDS-related causes.

b. 4.6

Which of the following is the special supermaximum-security prison built for the war on terrorism?

b. Camp Delta

Research has determined that although no single type of treatment can be identified as the most effective, one feature that seems to characterize programs that consistently reduce offender recidivism is:

b. the quality of the program's implementation

Your textbook describes four types of rehabilitation programs that are commonly offered within institutions. Three are listed below. Which of the following is NOT one of the types listed in your text?

c. Book clubs

We usually think of rehabilitation programs as serving one main objective. Which of the following is that main objective?

c. To help inmates better themselves

Which of the following is a reason for the problems that plague jails?

c. all choices are correct

Which of the following types of jails is built in a linear design, in which inmates live together in cells, dormitories, or "tanks," and guards at regular intervals walk up and down the corridors or "catwalks" and observe inmates.

c. first-generation jails

Over the last 200 years, Americans have developed a tradition of strong reliance on the prison to control crime. The result is that it:

c. has never done very well

Men's prisons are often distinguished from one another by:

c. security level

Before the 1600s, institutional confinement usually served functions other than punishment for criminal behavior. Six examples are listed in your textbook, and three of these are listed below. Which of the following is NOT one of these examples?

d. Rehabilitate criminals

Which of the following was designed for younger, less hardened offenders, between 16 and 30 years of age?

d. The reformatory

Which of the following countries consistently has one of the highest incarceration rates in the world?

d. United States

Originally, big-house prisons:

d. exploited inmate labor through various links to the free market

In recent years, incarceration rates for females in the United States have ________ incarceration rates for males.

d. grown faster than

Which of the following is NOT a function of jails?

d. holding inmates sentenced to long terms

Group counseling is more popular than individual counseling in institutional settings, primarily because:

d. it is more economical and there are large numbers of inmates who share similar backgrounds and problems

A(n) _________ is a very short-term (for instance, 24- to 48-hour) holding facility.

d. lockup

Rather than having inmates attend periodic group sessions (one or two hourly sessions per week), __________ encompasses the total living environment of inmates so that the environment continually encourages positive behavioral change.

d. milieu therapy

Inmates who are vulnerable to assault by other inmates may be designated for:

d. protective custody

One confinement alternative to traditional incarceration is ________, which is the placement of offenders in facilities patterned after _________.

d. shock incarceration; military boot camps

A ________ is a facility that holds convicted offenders and unconvicted persons for relatively short periods of up to one year.

jail