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The most common sentence handed out in criminal justice today is |
| | A) | imprisonment |
| | B) | capital punishment |
| | C) | corporal punishment |
| | D) | none of the above |
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Prior to the 1600s, confinement was used to |
| | A) | detain people before trial |
| | B) | coerce payment of debts and fines |
| | C) | quarantine disease |
| | D) | all of the above |
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A punishment that required offenders to leave the community and live elsewhere, commonly in the wilderness is |
| | A) | transportation |
| | B) | banishment |
| | C) | corporal punishment |
| | D) | flogging |
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Which of the following was not an important Enlightenment-era reformer in corrections? |
| | A) | Jeremy Bentham |
| | B) | John Augustus |
| | C) | Cesare Beccaria |
| | D) | John Howard |
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A characteristic of the "big house" prison was |
| | A) | large cell blocks containing stacks of one- or two-man cells |
| | B) | all built as new prisons during the 20th century |
| | C) | populations limited to about 1,000 inmates per prison |
| | D) | all of the above |
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According to John Irwin, the "contemporary violent prison" arose because |
| | A) | repressive measures used to control inmates in "big house" prisons were deemed illegal |
| | B) | the correctional institution's dominance began to wane |
| | C) | the effectiveness and fairness of coerced prison rehabilitation programming was challenged |
| | D) | all of the above |
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The involvement of the private sector in prisons is |
| | A) | a relatively new development, beginning within the last 20 years |
| | B) | limited to the provision of services such as food, legal aid, and medical care |
| | C) | growing to include construction, but not operation, of correctional facilities |
| | D) | greatly expanding, to include construction and operation of correctional facilities |
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Shock incarceration is |
| | A) | intended for violent offenders |
| | B) | a sentence in which an offender is sent to a military-style boot camp for at least one year |
| | C) | intended for young, nonviolent offenders |
| | D) | the same as house arrest |
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The incarceration rate in the United States |
| | A) | has stayed relatively stable, even though the numbers of inmates has increased dramatically |
| | B) | has risen moderately since the 1930s |
| | C) | has risen dramatically virtually every year since the 1930s |
| | D) | remained relatively stable from the 1930s through the 1970s, then began to rise dramatically in the 1980s |
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In the United States, 90 percent of prisoners are |
| | A) | in state prisons |
| | B) | in federal prisons |
| | C) | incarcerated for drug offenses |
| | D) | incarcerated for violent offenses |
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Co-correctional facilities |
| | A) | house both male and female inmates |
| | B) | house inmates of varying security levels |
| | C) | house inmates of varying custody levels |
| | D) | house both juveniles and adults |
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The main difference between a jail and a lockup is that |
| | A) | a lockup is a short-term facility |
| | B) | a jail is sometimes located inside a police station |
| | C) | a jail holds convicted offenders |
| | D) | all of the above |
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A characteristic of a new-generation jail is |
| | A) | solitary confinement of inmates for up to 23 hours a day |
| | B) | a single unit of individual cells |
| | C) | cells opening onto a common living area |
| | D) | total separation of staff and inmates |
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Which of the following is not a common security procedure in a correctional institution? |
| | A) | written rules regulating daily activities |
| | B) | routine counts of staff |
| | C) | use of protective custody and administrative segregation to protect inmates |
| | D) | searches of inmates' clothing and bedding |
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Services in a prison that are often performed by inmates include |
| | A) | building maintenance |
| | B) | security |
| | C) | medical care |
| | D) | education |
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2002 McGraw-Hill Higher Education