Module 10 Study Guide Review
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- Q1
Before the 1600s, institutional confinement usually served functions other than punishment for criminal behavior. Six examples are listed in your textbook, and three of these are listed below. Which of the following is NOT one of these examples?
Hold and punish slaves
Coerce payment of debts and fines
Quarantine disease
Rehabilitate criminals
30s - Q2
The closest European forerunner of the modern U.S. prison was known as:
the workhouse
transportation
the gaol
banishment
30s - Q3
Which of the following was designed for younger, less hardened offenders, between 16 and 30 years of age?
Transportation
Banishment
The penitentiary
The reformatory
30s - Q4
Most early women's prison employed ____, as distinguished from the ____ of men's prisons.
solitary confinement; cottages
a family-style living plan; solitary confinement
life sentences; early-release programs
a family-style living plan; cell-block plan
30s - Q5
Originally, big-house prisons:
exploited inmate labor through various links to the free market
fell into demise during the 1920s and 1930s
became warehouses oriented toward custody and repression of inmates
relied exclusively upon industrial labor throughout the United States
30s - Q6
One confinement alternative to traditional incarceration is ____, which is the placement of offenders in facilities patterned after ____.
shock incarceration; military boot camps
privatization; factories
workhouse confinement; campuses
transportation; deserted islands
30s - Q7
Which of the following states is the first state to allow female prisoners to work on chain gangs?
Florida
Alabama
Georgia
Arizona
30s - Q8
At the beginning of 2011, the states and the federal government combined operated about _________ adult prisons
880
1100
750
500
30s - Q9
Over the last 200 years, Americans have developed a tradition of strong reliance on the prison to control crime. The result is that it:
has generally exceeded people's expectations
has never done very well
makes the public less concerned about crime
has generally met people's expectations
30s - Q10
When offenders are sentenced to the custody of the department of corrections in most states, they are transported initially to a:
classification facility
minimum-security prison
jail
medium-security prison
30s - Q11
Men's prisons are often distinguished from one another by:
the era in which they were built
size
custody level
security level
30s - Q12
In recent years, incarceration rates for females in the United States have ____ incarceration rates for males.
grown faster than
grown slower than
not grown in comparison to
grown as fast as
30s - Q13
Co-correctional prisons are usually____, and security is typically ____.
large; medium
large; “high/close”
small; minimum
small; medium
30s - Q14
A(n) ____ is a very short-term (for instance, 24- to 48-hour) holding facility.
minimum-security prison
furlough
lockup
jail
30s - Q15
A ____ is a facility that holds convicted offenders and unconvicted persons for relatively short periods of up to one year.
minimum-security prison
lockup
furlough
jail
30s