Chapter 10 Study Guide Introduction to Criminal Justice

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

true

a strategy pursued in a few jurisdictions has been to replace the traditional jail with a new generation jail.

true

an inmate custody level indicates the degree of precaution that needs to be taken when working with that inmates.

true

as the end of 2005, there was 1.5 million prisoners in state and federal prisons, including local and military housed prisoners.

true

classification is not one time process that occurs at the beginning of an inmates sentences.

true

small number of prisons permit conjugal visits

true

some states do not pay inmates for their work

true

the big house was a walled prison with large cell blocks that contained stacks of three or more tiers of one two-man cells.

true

the majority of federal inmates ate serving time for drug offenses

true

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

true

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

1100

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

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

which of the following is the special super maximum-security prison built for the war on terrorism?

Camp delta

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

Custody and security

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.

Milieu therapy

inmates who are vulnerable to assault by other inmates a=may be designated for

Protective custody

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 below. Which of the following is NOT one of these examples?

Rehabilitate Criminals

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

The reformatory

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

Untied States

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

book clubs

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

classification facility

Originally, big house prisons:

exploited inmate labor through various links to the free market

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 a regular intervals walk up and down the corridors or catwalks, and observe inmates.

first generation jails

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

grown faster than

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

has never done very well

which of the following is NOT a function of jails?

holding inmates sentenced to long terms

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

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

a ___ is a facility that holds convicted offenders are unconvicted persons for relatively short periods of up to one year.

jail

a(n) ____ is a very short term (for instance, 24 to 48 hours) holding facility.

lockup

which of the following has NOT been found about private correctional facilitates

privation can be substantially increase legal liability cost of operating prisons and jails

in which of the following types of jails do correctional officers constantly supervise inmates from secure control booth that overlook inmate living areas.

second generation jails

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

security level

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

shock incarceration; military boot camps

co-correctional prisons are usually ____, and security is typically ___.

small; minimum

most institutions have elaborate ____, in which staff learn from inmate informants about the presence of contraband, the potential for disruptions, and other threats to security.

snitch systems

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

the less eligibility principle

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

the limited and unstable nature of local taxes to fund and staff jails a general lack of public support for jail reform rapid rates of inmate turnover, which makes it difficult to coordinate programs

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:

the quality if the program's implementation

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

the workhouse

which of the following has research shown to be an advantage of direct supervision jails

they provide a less stressful, more positive, and safer environment for inmates and staff they enhance supervision by reducing the number of unsupervised areas they reduce inmate violations for contraband possession, deconstruction of property, escapes disrespecting officers and staff, suicides, and violence

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

third generations jails

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

to help inmates better themselves