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exam 3 Flashcards

1
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Goal of the punishment for the offender to pay their debt to society?

A

Retribution

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2
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Goal of punishment to affect future behavior particularly to subdue criminal behavior?

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Deterrence

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3
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Goal of punishment of restrict current criminal behavior through physical restriction?

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Incapacitation

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4
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Goal of punishment to restore the offender to a constructive place?

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Rehabilitation

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5
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(T/F) The target of specific deterrence is criminal offending of the individual; the target of general deterrence is criminal offending among the public

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True

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6
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Highest degree of incapacitation

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Capital punishment/death

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7
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Prison sentence for a specific time period?

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Determinate

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8
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(T/F) Incarceration is the most expensive criminal justice sanction

A

True

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9
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Most common form of criminal sanctioning?

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Probation

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10
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Costliest form of criminal sanctioning?

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Incarceration

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11
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(T/F) An individual on probation may be sent to jail or prison for violating the conditions of probation.

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True

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12
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Which criminal justice actor has the most discretion (decision-making power) during sentencing?

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Judge

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13
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Which criminal justice actor has the most discretion (decision-making power) when awarding “good time” in correctional facilities?

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Prison administrator

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14
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An individual that has been sentenced to death and is awaiting execution is likely placed in an area of the prison?

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Death row

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15
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(T/F) The number of individuals sentenced to death is greater than the number of individuals executed

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True

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16
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(T/F) The number of individuals executed is greater than the number of individuals sentenced to death

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False

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17
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(T/F) Capital punishment (the death penalty) is unconstitutional in the united states

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False

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18
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(T/F) Capital punishment (the death penalty) has always been constitutional in the united states

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False

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19
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Cannot be sentenced to death according to the united states supreme court?

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A person that is mentally handicapped or disabled

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20
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(T/F) Capitol punishment (the death penalty) continues to be a practice in the united states

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True

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21
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Is the most common method of execution in the united states

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Lethal injection

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22
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(T/F) The individual sentenced to two consecutive sentences will serve their sentences at the same time

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False

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23
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(T/F) The individual sentenced to two concurrent sentences will serve their sentences one after another

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False

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24
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All other factors being equal, will the individual sentenced to concurrent or consecutive sentences spend a longer time incarcerated

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consecutive

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(T/F) The earliest prisons in the united states restricted incarcerated persons from talking during day working hours and confined people to individual cells during non-working night hours
True
26
Which early prison system included the practices of prison stripes and the lockstep practice whereby incarcerated persons are chained to one another in effort to restrict movement and prevent escape?
New York System
27
Most correctional costs are paid by which?
State and local government
28
(T/F) Most incarcerated people are in federal prisons
False
29
(T/F) Most incarcerated people are in state prisons
True
30
In each state which branch of government is responsible for the administration of prisons?
Executive
31
(T/F) All prisons provide equal levels of security
False
32
Which security level prison houses the least violent offenders and offers greater personal freedoms like television sets a choice in clothing and less restricted movement?
Minimum security
33
Which security level prison physically resembles a high security facility but functions differently with greater access to visitation, radio.tv and mail?
Medium security
34
Which security level prison houses the fewest number of people with the highest degree of custody; incarcerated prisons spend 23/hours a day in a cell and are shackled when outside the cell
Super maximum security
35
(T/F) Prisons are a self sustaining enterprise all services and supplies required for prison operation are provided internally
False
36
(T/F) most people are incarcerated in private prisons
False
37
(T/F) Everybody in jail is awaiting trial
False
38
A person convicted of a felony offense and sentenced to 5 years incarcerated are mostly likely to spend their incarceration in which type of facility
Prison
39
A person convicted of a misdemeanor offense and sentenced to 6 months incarcerated are most likely to spend their incarceration in which type of facility?
Jail
40
Which of the following is the leading cause of death in jail?
Suicide
41
(T/F) The state myst meet the basic needs of incarcerated prisons including secure and sanitary conditions
True
42
(T/F) According to the fourth amendment protection from unreasonable search and seizure correctional officers must have probable cause prior to searching the prison cell an incarcerated person
False
43
(T/F) Incarcerated people are more isolated today than in 1950
False
44
Leading cause of death in jail
Suicide
45
Model of corrections do most prison operate under today?
Custodial model
46
Prison staff is responsible for all the following except
Punis/deter
47
(T/F) it is the responsibility of correctional officers to punish incarcerated persons?
False
48
Medical staff in a correctional facility are most aligned with which function of prison staff
Serve/Treat
49
Correctional officers working in a correctional facility are most aligned with which function or prison staff
Keep/custody
50
Which amendment in the Bill of rights protects the right of incarcerated people punishment that goes beyond legitimate penal aims?
Eighth amendement
51
(T/F) The ratio of correctional officers to incarcerated persons is such that there are more correctional officers than incarcerated persons
False
52
Reward and punishment are methods to incentive good behavior among incarcerated people. What is an example of what punishment looks like in a prison facility?
denting privledges
53
Most direct contact with the incarcerated population
correctional officers
54
Not a primary function of correctional officers
punish
55
(T/F) Female correctional officers are restricted from employment in male prison facilities
False
56
(T/F) Correctional officers are restricted using force with the incarcerated population
False
57
What scenario would an officer not be permitted to use force with an incarcerated person ?
The correctional officer feels threatned
58
(T/F) Half the prison population are men under 40
True
59
At which age are incarcerated people considered elderly?
55
60
(T/F) elderly inmates cost more than the non elderly inmate
True
61
Incarcerated people spend their rime in various ways. Which of the following adaptive roles includes advantage of prison programming to maximize the chance of success upon release?
Gleaning
62
Which of the adaptive roles is conceptualized as a brief, inevitable break from criminal career and incarcerated is a cost of doing business
Doing time
63
The prison commissary is best defined as
Store within the prison to buy additional products
64
(T/F) An incarcerated person can consent to sexual relations with a correctional officer whose authority they must defer to
False
65
(T/F) There are more male than female prison facilities
True
66
The subculture of the women's prisons is best categorized as which
Pseudofamily structure
67
The subculture of male prisons is best categorized as which
Ultra masculine

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