Chapter 9: Special Offenders

Question 1

Special Offenders

Answer 1

offenders whose circumstances, conditions, or behaviors require management or treatment outside of the normal approach

Question 2

Blended sentencing

Answer 2

middle ground between juvenile and adult sentences that allow judges to choose a broad array of sanctions

Question 3

Straight adult incarceration

Answer 3

form of incarceration in which juveniles handled by adult courts are placed in adult prisons with no differentiation

Question 4

Graduated incarceration

Answer 4

juveniles handled by adult courts are placed in juvenile facilities until they reach the age of 18 and then transferred to adult prison

Question 5

Segregated incarceration

Answer 5

juveniles handled by adult courts are housed in adult prison but segregated and placed in specialized programs

Question 6

Antipsychotic drugs

Answer 6

drugs given to mentally ill individuals to counteract the symptoms of their illness allowing them to successfully live in the community

Question 7

Medical parole

Answer 7

placing aging or disabled inmates in a nursing home or hospital to receive care while still serving their sentence

Question 8

Containment model

Answer 8

approach to managing sex offenders that includes treatment to develop internal control over deviant thoughts, supervision, and surveillance of behaviors; polygraph examinations to monitor conformance

Question 9

Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV)

Answer 9

a virus that attacks the body’s immune system, increasing the chance or infection and other diseases