AJS212 / Juvenile Justice - Ch. 10 & 11
In Chief Justice Warren Burger's opinion, the first requirement of due process for parole revocation is ________.
written notice of the claimed violation of parole
Which of the following is a disadvantage of setting up independent agencies for releasing youths from training centers?
Agencies can be easily bribed and thus manipulated.
Which of the following is TRUE of ranches and forestry camps?
Ranches and forestry camps are minimum-security institutional placements.
Revocation generally is based on the ________ of the youths.
attitude
Which of the following was the most frequent reason for the revocation of aftercare according to a Kentucky study?
commission of property crimes
Which of the following is an example of a long-term confinement facility?
forestry camps
In which of the following cases did the Texas court hold that a number of criteria had to be followed by the state in order to ensure proper treatment of confined juveniles?
Morales v. Turman
Which of the following is a finding of the fifteen-year follow-up evaluation by Miller, Bartollas, and Dinitz?
Negative youth culture described in the 1976 study still thrived.
In which of the following cases did the court grant a right to rehabilitative treatment?
The Inmates of the Boys' Training School v. Affleck
Which of the following is TRUE about training schools?
The actual goal depends on the security level of the training school.
Which argument contradicts the contention that the staff members who work with the residents know them best and are best judges of when they should be released?
The institutional officials will intentionally try to keep the inmates imprisoned to prevent budget cuts.
Which of the following statements is the MOST TRUE?
The most widely used program provides intensive supervision to low-risk youthful offenders.
What program begins with a thirteen-week reintegration treatment program that attempts to improve offenders' basic socialization skills, to stop their use or abuse of drugs, and to provide them with employment and/or an educational opportunity?
Workforce 99
A basic assumption of the Intensive Aftercare Program is that serious and chronic delinquency is related to ________.
basic institutional failure
Why is the term aftercare a misnomer?
because there never really is an "after"
Which of the following is a reason given for the failure of aftercare?
constructive nature of institutional life
The Eighth Amendment to the Constitution deals with________.
cruel and unusual punishment
According to our author, juvenile facility managers should ________.
demand excellence
Boot camps generally are________.
designed for offenders who have failed with lesser sanctions
According to our author, juvenile facility managers should ________.
encourage accreditation
Several court decisions have held that a juvenile has a right to treatment when he or she is committed to a juvenile ________.
institution
States that use ________ sentencing for juveniles usually have determined the time of institutional release when the youth is committed to training school.
minimum
Juveniles released after training are placed ________.
on aftercare or parole status
Much of the current work in juvenile justice is focused on ________.
punishment
The Intensive Aftercare Program model focuses on ________.
punishment
For an aftercare program to be successful, it should ________.
reduce contact as much as possible between officials and offenders
Which of the following is an objective of juvenile aftercare?
reducing the crimes committed by released juveniles
Basic goals of training schools as identified by Street, Vinter, and Perrow include________.
reeducation/development
Murray v. Page set the rationale for the ________ model.
rehabilitation
What is the prime goal of incarcerated youth?
retaliation
Juvenile facility managers should make the institutional environment ________ for youths and staff. comparable
safe
Aftercare for the Incarcerated through Mentoring (AIM), a juvenile reentry program based in Indiana, focuses primarily on ________.
supervising the incarcerated
Which of the following provides restrictive criteria governing the confinement of juveniles in adult facilities?
the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act of 1974
What resulted in over $28 million dollars being awarded to non-profit organizations and governments to provide services to reentering ex-offenders?
the Second Chance Act being signed into law
Juvenile facility managers should determine where ________ and how they want to get there.
they want to go
Which is one of the most serious concerns about detention centers in the United States?
use of mechanical restraints