Online workshop practice MCQs

Question 1

Which term is NOT used to describe the orthodox account of the prison crisis?

Answer 1

The crisis of legitimacy

Question 2

Which of the following does NOT reflect the Marxist or neo-Marxist position?

Answer 2

Prison seeks to turn delinquents into respectable bourgeoisie

Question 3

Which of the following recommendations from the Woolf Report was rejected?

Answer 3

Introduction of community prisons and small secure units

Question 4

All of the following were identified by Sykes (1958) as a psychological pain of imprisonment EXCEPT:

Answer 4

Role-stripping

Question 5

Which of the following is MOST CONSISTENT with the Risk-need-responsibility (RNR) approach to rehabilitation?

Answer 5

Changing dynamic criminogenic needs - something you can change

Question 6

In relation to prison officers, ‘cross-posting’ refers to:

Answer 6

Working with prisoners whose gender is opposite to one’s own

Question 7

Which of the following is NOT a ‘pain’ identified by Griffin and Healy (2019)?

Answer 7

Forming trutsing relationships with keyworkers

Question 7

According to Maurna’s (2001) redemption script, when talking about their offending, disasters…

Answer 7

Distinguish between the person there were then and there true selves

Question 8

The principle of normalisation can be defined as:

Answer 8

Making life in prison as similar as possible to life outside of prison

Question 9

All of these statements about the American penal system are correct EXCEPT:

Answer 9

Penitentiaries hold men and women convicted of the most serious offenses - they don’t hold women