Test Bank for Corrections, An Introduction, 7th Edition Seiter (All Chapters included)
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Complete Test Bank for Corrections, An Introduction, 7th Edition by Richard P. Seiter ; ISBN13: 9780138184650. (Full Chapters included Chapter 1 to 16)....1.The History of Crime and Corrections
2.Sentencing and the Correctional Process
3.Jails
4.Probation and Intermediate Sanctions
5.Prison Sys...
Corrections, An Introduction
7th Edition by Richard P. Seiter
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MULTIPLE CHOICE. Choose the one alternative that best completes the statement or answers the question.
1) What was the first penitentiary designed to house sentenced offenders in the United States 1)
called?
A) Walnut Street Jail B) Sing Sing Prison
C) Eastern State Penitentiary D) Western State Penitentiary
2) How do correctional agencies fulfill their mission? 2)
I. By imprisoning offenders who receive a sentence of incarceration from the courts
II. By assisting courts in the decision to grant bail
III. By supervising offenders in the community under court jurisdiction
A) I, III B) I, II C) II, III D) I, II, III
3) Which of the following statements is TRUE of the Walnut Street Jail? 3)
A) It was an architectural nightmare, built in an octagon with small, dark cells inside the
cellblocks to provide solitary confinement and no labor.
B) Prisoners were allowed to congregate during the day to work in factories to improve the
production of goods.
C) It introduced the idea of releasing offenders on a conditional basis, leading to the
development of parole.
D) Prison administrators often put masks on inmates as they moved through the prison, to
avoid identification in case they met each other after release.
4) What is defined as a legislative authorization to provide a specific range of punishment for a 4)
specific crime?
A) punishment guide B) correctional system
C) penal code D) fee system
5) What is the hands-off doctrine? 5)
A) a four-stage system of graduated release from prison and return to the community
B) a theory of corrections that offenders were sick, inflicted with problems that caused their
criminality
C) a conclusion by Robert Martinson that no correctional treatment program reduces
recidivism
D) avoidance by the U.S. Supreme Court of judicial intervention in the operations of prisons
and the judgment of correctional administrators
6) What was the emphasis in the Rehabilitative Era? 6)
A) reformation that expanded education and vocational programs and focused offenders'
attention on their future
B) having inmates work and produce products that could help in making the prisons
self-sustaining
C) the professionalizing of staff through recruitment and training, and the implementation of
many self-improvement programs of prison management
D) holding offenders accountable for their acts and being tough on criminals while keeping
them isolated from law-abiding citizens
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7) Which eighteenth-century theorist is recognized as the founder of the Classical School of 7)
criminology?
A) Voltaire B) Cesare Lombroso
C) Jeremy Bentham D) Cesare Beccaria
8) Which of the following links crime causation to punishment, based on offenders' free will and 8)
hedonism?
A) the Classical School of criminology B) hedonistic calculus
C) atavism D) the Positive School of criminology
9) Which theorist suggested that criminal laws should be organized so that the punishment for any 9)
act would outweigh the pleasure that would be derived from the act?
A) Gabriel Tarde B) Cesare Beccaria
C) Cesare Lombroso D) Jeremy Bentham
10) Which of the following is based on the belief that criminals do NOT have complete choice over 10)
their criminal actions and may commit acts that are beyond their control?
A) the hedonistic calculus B) the Positive School
C) the Neoclassical School D) the Classical School
11) Who among the following concluded that criminals had traits that made them throwbacks to 11)
earlier stages of evolution?
A) Cesare Beccaria B) Voltaire
C) Cesare Lombroso D) Jeremy Bentham
12) What is specific deterrence? 12)
A) the recognition that criminal acts result in punishment, and the effect of that recognition
on society that prevents future crimes
B) the state of relapse that occurs when offenders complete their criminal punishment and
then continue to commit crimes
C) the incarceration of high-risk offenders for preventive reasons based on what they are
expected to do, not what they have already done
D) the effect of punishment on an individual offender that prevents that person from
committing future crimes
13) Which early colonial bail system enabled rich offenders to pay a fee and be released? 13)
A) correctional system B) separate and silent system
C) fee system D) system of gaols
14) Whose efforts in jail reform led to the passing of the Penitentiary Act in 1779? 14)
A) Jeremy Bentham B) Gabriel Tarde
C) William Penn D) John Howard
15) What did the Quakers' criminal code include? 15)
A) corporal punishments instead of imprisonment
B) the use of stocks and pillories instead of detention
C) free food and lodging for inmates
D) capital punishment for thefts and religious crimes
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16) The original features of the Pennsylvania system included all but which of the following? 16)
A) silence B) separation
C) reformation of inmates D) working with other inmates
17) Which of the following was a problem with the Pennsylvania system? 17)
I. It had low productivity.
II. It was expensive.
III. It made inmates mentally ill.
A) I, II B) II, III C) I, III D) I, II, III
18) Which system was known as the "congregate and silent" system? 18)
A) Irish system B) Pennsylvania system
C) Auburn system D) fee system
19) Sir Walter Crofton was the head of which system? 19)
A) Pennsylvania system B) Irish system
C) fee system D) Auburn system
20) Which correctional era advocated an environment that emphasized reformation, education, and 20)
vocational programs, and focused offenders' attention on the future?
A) Industrial Prison Era B) Reformatory Era
C) Retributive Era D) Rehabilitative Era
21) The number of clients under supervision of correctional agencies over the last three decades has: 21)
A) grown
B) remained stable
C) decreased
D) increased for incarcerated offenders, but decreased for those supervised in the community
22) The extent of correctional jobs 22)
A) is limited mainly to correctional officers
B) includes food service and health care providers
C) are very low paying
D) have been decreasing in needs and opportunities
23) The "tough on crime" policies 23)
A) show little evidence of their effectiveness
B) are not based in politics
C) are very effective
D) are more cost effective than alternative sentencing
24) Which of the following did NOT contribute to the growth of incarceration rate in the 1980s? 24)
A) mandatory minimum sentences
B) taking discretion away from judges through sentencing guidelines
C) three-strikes laws
D) older population
TRUE/FALSE. Write 'T' if the statement is true and 'F' if the statement is false.
25) The Walnut Street jail had the reformation of the offender as its primary objective. 25)
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