CRJ ch 11
The term ____ denotes society's efforts to punish and treat individuals who break the law, and thereby to protect the public
Corrections
Jack and Jill are both convicted of driving under the influence. Jack is sentenced to 9 months in jail while Jill is sentenced to 6 months on probation. Jills sentence is for ________ corrections.
community
the original purpose of a plague town was to:
confine people in communities infected by the bubonic plague
the style of confinement under the auburn system was called
congregate system
newgate prison in Connecticut was originally a:
copper mine
the most traditional form of early punishment was:
corporal punishment
if you were sentenced to row ships during the 1400's and 1500's in England, you were sentences to"
galley slavery
Historically people believed that the only way to control crime was through severe punishment and:
fear of death
one of the most commonly used penal colonies during the late 1700s was:
Australia
the penal colony isla maria is located off the coast of:
Mexico
The belief that harsh punishment assumption that
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penitentiraries embraced the principle of
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if you were accused of a crime and were awaiting trial in the early united states, you would most likely be held in:
an ordinary house that served as a jail house
___ system was a system of prison administration in which prisoners were isolated in cells at night but allowed to congregate during the day for work duty and meals but in total silence
auburn
how did citizens in sixteenth and seventeenth century England make sure that punishment of offenders particularly hanging would have the desired deterrent effect
by making the hanging a public event in the town square
one of the early forms of punishment in England was to hold convicts in abandoned ships, which ware called:
hulks
convicts who were transported from Britain to American colonies to be sold to private individuals to act as servants for a period of time were:
indentured servants
Jack and Jill are both convicted of driving under the influence. Jack is sentenced to 9 months in jail while Jill is sentenced to 6 months on probation. Jack's sentence is for ________ corrections.
institutional
which of the following statements is true about workhouses
men, women, and children were kept separate from each other
which of the following was one of the lasting effects of the martinson report of 1974
most prisons drastically cut funding for prison treatment programs
in 1785 in philly half of the individuals sentenced to jail were guilty of :
not paying their debts
one of the main criticisms of the Pennsylvania system was that inmates :
often developed mental illnesses
an early American judge who wished for an offender to repent for his or her sins would most likely be inclined to sentence an offender to a :
penitentiary
the auburn system differed from the Pennsylvania system in that inmates were:
permitted to congregate during the day to work together in silence
in England during the eleventh century those who broke the laws were often held in ____ until it was time to impose punishment
private estates
a punishment that involved no torture or corporal punishment for offenders and focused on reforming their behavior is based on ____ principles
quaker
Eventually, correctional philosophy shifted from punishment to ________, characterized by changing individuals from offenders into law-abiding citizens.
rehabilitation
the Elmira reformatory centered on the principles of
rehabilitation
what did a study in Canada find concerning hard punishments
researchers found that adolescents who received harsh punishment were more likely to be rearrested
____is a perspective that focuses on the offender's responsibility to repair the hurt damage and injustice that the crime victim has experienced by making restitution and doing community service
restorative justice
researchers who study punishment believe that the motive for harsh punishment is not deterrence but:
retribution
after a great debate over which prison system was better most prisons in America were modeled after
the Pennsylvania system
one of the most significant reasons that reformatories fell out of popularity was because
the programs that were offered only affected a small number of inmates
which of the following is true about the effectiveness of harsh punishments as deterrent to crime?
the threat of harsh punishment does not necessarily reduce crime
The main goal of the corrections system is to
transform offenders into law-abiding citizens
The term corrections can be traced back to the turn of the ____ century in America
twentieth
__ is considered to be the first penitentiary
walnut street jail
one of the most important reasons that the auburn system was favored was because the auburn system
was able to turn a profit through convict labor
if you were a women being held while awaiting trial in the early colonial period of the United states, you would most likely be housed:
with other women, men, even children
