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Terms in this set (81)Penal institutions designed to deprive offenders of their freedom as a form of punishment have been around since the tenth century. T/F False The Brideswell workhouse was built to hold those convicted of minor offenses, who would work to pay off
their True Floaters were abandoned ships anchored in harbors and used in eighteenth-century New England to house False Supporters of the Pennsylvania system believed that the penitentiary was truly a place to experience penitence. T/F True The New York correctional system was the first to place each inmate in a single cell for the duration of his False The Quakers pressured the state legislature to improve conditions in the prisons in Pennsylvania. T/F True Medium-security prisons promote greater treatment efforts than maximum-security prisons. T/F True The rehabilitation movement of the 1960s was guided by the medical model. T/F True Boot camps are a form of shock incarceration. T/F True The number of adult females in jail has been growing at a much faster rate than adult males. T/F True The amount of time served in prison has decreased. T/F False The federal government and most state correctional authorities have closed their boot camp programs. T/F True The
Sumners-Ashurst Act made it a federal offense to transport interstate commerce goods made in prison for True Women make up less than 10 percent of the prison population. T/F True Private prisons are called private because the food and medical services are provided by private contractors. T/F False Medium-security prisons have liberal furlough but strict visiting policies. T/F False The changes William Penn made to Pennsylvania's criminal code remained in effect, even after his death. T/F False The Auburn system used tiered cells, congregate living conditions, group activities, and silence as punishment. T/F True Despite some liberal reforms, prisons in the mid-twentieth century remained places of severe discipline and harsh True Whites make up 47 percent of the jail population, so a disproportionate number of jail inmates are minority. T/F True New-generation jails are designed to increase and improve security while giving inmates a sense of privacy. T/F True In a super-maximum-security prison, most inmates are in lockdown at least 22 hours per day. T/F True Prison farms are an example of shock incarceration. T/F False There are significantly higher recidivism rates by offenders housed in private prisons compared to state-run False There are currently more than 1.6 million inmates in the state and federal prison systems. T/F True Approximately _____ of the people now entering prison are parole violators. a. one-fourth B Currently, there are _____________ inmates in the state and federal prison systems. a. 800,000 C When did the concept of incarcerating convicted offenders as a form of punishment become the norm for corrections? a. Twelfth centuryb. Fourteenth century D Where were the English forced to house large numbers of prisoners after they could no longer transport them to North America? a.
In the ancient Le Stinche prison D The modern American correctional system had its origins in _______. a. New York B What religious group put pressure on the Pennsylvania legislature to improve the conditions of custodial institutions? a. Methodists C The Pennsylvania system in corrections was the first to take the radical step of: a. assigning solitary confinement as punishment. C Which prison system was known as the congregate system? a. New Jersey system B What was the key to discipline in the Auburn system? a. Flogging D What is the name for the system that allowed prison officials to sell the labor of inmates to private businesses? a. Property in service system C William Penn's revisions to the Pennsylvania criminal code included forbidding what kind of punishment? a.
Torture A The major similarity between the Pennsylvania and the Auburn systems was: a. both featured penitence and prayer as a way to heal D
Which is not one of the five primary purposes for jails? a. Detain accused offenders awaiting trial D Which statement is false regarding the population of jail inmates? a.
The number of juveniles in adult facilities has been dramatically increasing in the past decade. A An important trend in prisons of the twentieth century was the: a. development of the modern convict-lease
system. D About ________ percent of the jail population is white. a. 25 C Which is false regarding new-generation jails? a. Inmates are essentially unsupervised. A What type of jail has the correctional officer's station located inside a secure room? a. Linear jail a. Linear
jail B Which of the following statements best describes correctional technology? A. Escape from jail can be prevented through the monitoring of an inmate's heartbeat. D Joliet and Alcatraz were examples of what type of prison? a. Maximum security A The primary purpose of a maximum-security prison is: a. rehabilitation. a. rehabilitation. B Prison farms and camps are found primarily in what sections of the country? a. Northeast D How long do shock incarceration programs generally last? a.
1-2 days C Shock incarceration is generally designed with what target population in mind? a. Violent offenders D 50. The Corrections Corporation of America (or CoreCivic) opened its first private prison in what state? a. New York B Private prisons have the unique advantage of: a. allowing the government to circumvent the voting process to approve a bond issue. A The inmate population in the United States has __________ despite a decade-long crime drop. a. increased exponentially B The majority of inmates in the United States are: a. housed in maximum or super-maximum
facilities. C Which is a factor that helps contribute to swelling prison populations? a. Failure of community release programs D Which of the following is true regarding future prison trends? a. Fewer people are receiving a prison sentence than five years ago. A The suicide rate in county jails was approximately ____ times greater than that in the general population of the United States 20 years ago. a. two B The penitentiary house was a central feature in the early ____________________ prison system. Pennsylvania The tier system of prisoners was first introduced as part of the ____________________ system. Auburn The Auburn system was also referred to as the ____________________ system since most prisoners ate and congregate A _____ houses those awaiting trial and confines convicted misdemeanants serving sentences of less than one year. jail Incarceration of felony offenders for terms of one year or more occurs in a _____. prison The ____________________ in Pennsylvania were instrumental in convincing the Pennsylvania legislature to reform prisons in the 1790s Quakers ____________________
are found primarily in the South and West and have been in operation since the Prison farms and camps ___________________ prisons are the most stringent type of facilities that lock down inmates 22 to 24 hours a Super-maximumsecurity In a(n) ____________________, inmates have a
great deal of personal freedom that sometimes includes work minimum-securityprison Boot camps are an example of ____________________ incarceration. shock A halfway house is an example of a(n) ____________________. communitycorrectionalfacility
The Corrections Corporation of America opened the first ____________________ in 1986. privateprison ____________________ is a sentence of 90 to 180 days involving tough physical training and usually involves Shock incarceration Using the supervision of citizen volunteers called
______________, Zebulon Brockway selected rehabilitated guardians The number of __________ inmates increased nearly 20 percent between 2010 and 2014. female New-generation jails allow for _________________observation of residents. continuous A typical _____________________ facility is fortress-like, surrounded by stone walls with guard towers that are strategically placed around the grounds. maximum-security The ____________ involves leasing inmates to a business for a fixed annual fee. convict-lease system The ___________ is a correctional philosophy suggesting that inmates need treatment rather than punishment to aid in their reform. medical model _____________is the philosophy that harsh treatment will deter would-be criminals from committing crimes and Penal harm Holding probationers and parolees picked up for violations and waiting for a hearing is one purpose of a _____. jail To relieve overcrowding and improve effectiveness, many jails use a modern design referred to as the new-generationjail Club Fed" is a slang term for a(n) ____________ prison. federal Intensive physical conditioning and discipline occur at a ______, popular in the 1980s and 1990s. bootcamp Used to gradually acclimate inmates to conventional society, a(n) ________ is a community-based correctional halfway house Sets with similar termsCRJU ch 1150 terms lizagallagher CRJU MINDTAP CH 1325 terms jspeaker crim100exam3 corrections notes223 terms sillyisgilly Criminal justice Ch. 14: Corrections: History, Ins…27 terms marquis_tcu Sets found in the same folderCRJ Test 383 terms cirqueheart56 chapter 1130 terms Colleen_Baer Criminal Justice 1101 Midterm96 terms Cjimenez1995 AJS Quiz 525 terms cma447 Other sets by this creatorChapter 7 Advertising5 terms Caitlyncummings4444 Cj Chapter 1380 terms Caitlyncummings4444 Criminal Justice test 1 Hensley75 terms Caitlyncummings4444 Recommended textbook solutions Human Resource Management15th EditionJohn David Jackson, Patricia Meglich, Robert Mathis, Sean Valentine 249 solutions
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