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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?

A

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

A

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?

A

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?

A

Probation

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10
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Costliest form of criminal sanctioning?

A

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.

A

True

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

A

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?

A

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?

A

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

A

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?

A

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

A

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

A

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

A

consecutive

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25
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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

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True

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26
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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?

A

New York System

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27
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Most correctional costs are paid by which?

A

State and local government

28
Q

(T/F) Most incarcerated people are in federal prisons

A

False

29
Q

(T/F) Most incarcerated people are in state prisons

A

True

30
Q

In each state which branch of government is responsible for the administration of prisons?

A

Executive

31
Q

(T/F) All prisons provide equal levels of security

A

False

32
Q

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?

A

Minimum security

33
Q

Which security level prison physically resembles a high security facility but functions differently with greater access to visitation, radio.tv and mail?

A

Medium security

34
Q

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

A

Super maximum security

35
Q

(T/F) Prisons are a self sustaining enterprise all services and supplies required for prison operation are provided internally

A

False

36
Q

(T/F) most people are incarcerated in private prisons

A

False

37
Q

(T/F) Everybody in jail is awaiting trial

A

False

38
Q

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

A

Prison

39
Q

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?

A

Jail

40
Q

Which of the following is the leading cause of death in jail?

A

Suicide

41
Q

(T/F) The state myst meet the basic needs of incarcerated prisons including secure and sanitary conditions

A

True

42
Q

(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

A

False

43
Q

(T/F) Incarcerated people are more isolated today than in 1950

A

False

44
Q

Leading cause of death in jail

A

Suicide

45
Q

Model of corrections do most prison operate under today?

A

Custodial model

46
Q

Prison staff is responsible for all the following except

A

Punis/deter

47
Q

(T/F) it is the responsibility of correctional officers to punish incarcerated persons?

A

False

48
Q

Medical staff in a correctional facility are most aligned with which function of prison staff

A

Serve/Treat

49
Q

Correctional officers working in a correctional facility are most aligned with which function or prison staff

A

Keep/custody

50
Q

Which amendment in the Bill of rights protects the right of incarcerated people punishment that goes beyond legitimate penal aims?

A

Eighth amendement

51
Q

(T/F) The ratio of correctional officers to incarcerated persons is such that there are more correctional officers than incarcerated persons

A

False

52
Q

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?

A

denting privledges

53
Q

Most direct contact with the incarcerated population

A

correctional officers

54
Q

Not a primary function of correctional officers

A

punish

55
Q

(T/F) Female correctional officers are restricted from employment in male prison facilities

A

False

56
Q

(T/F) Correctional officers are restricted using force with the incarcerated population

A

False

57
Q

What scenario would an officer not be permitted to use force with an incarcerated person ?

A

The correctional officer feels threatned

58
Q

(T/F) Half the prison population are men under 40

A

True

59
Q

At which age are incarcerated people considered elderly?

A

55

60
Q

(T/F) elderly inmates cost more than the non elderly inmate

A

True

61
Q

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?

A

Gleaning

62
Q

Which of the adaptive roles is conceptualized as a brief, inevitable break from criminal career and incarcerated is a cost of doing business

A

Doing time

63
Q

The prison commissary is best defined as

A

Store within the prison to buy additional products

64
Q

(T/F) An incarcerated person can consent to sexual relations with a correctional officer whose authority they must defer to

A

False

65
Q

(T/F) There are more male than female prison facilities

A

True

66
Q

The subculture of the women’s prisons is best categorized as which

A

Pseudofamily structure

67
Q

The subculture of male prisons is best categorized as which

A

Ultra masculine

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