CJS 255 Wk 3 – Concept Check

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CJS 255 Wk 3 - Concept Check
CJS 255 Wk 3 – Concept Check
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CJS 255 Wk 3 – Concept Check

  1. Question 1

 

Which of the following is not a philosophical underpinning in corrections?

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rehabilitation

retribution

incarceration

rehabilitation

  1. Question 2

 

The ______ Division coordinates the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) personnel matters, including pay and leave administration, incentive awards, retirement, work-life programs, background investigations, adverse and disciplinary actions, and performance evaluations.

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Executive Management

Human Resource Management

Occupational Review Board

Examination Management

  1. Question 3

 

The National Advisory Commission on Criminal Justice Standards and Goals recommendation to improve the education and training of correctional officers is an example of ______.

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improving correctional cultural competence

enforcement of corrections

professionalization of corrections

diversifying corrections

  1. Question 4

 

Which act in 2014 was designed to adjust federal mandatory sentencing guidelines in an effort to reduce the size of the U.S. prison population?

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Smarter Sentencing Act

Criminal Offender Bill

Booker Act

Fair Sentencing Act

  1. Question 5

 

Who is the head administrator in a prison?

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lieutenant

major

warden

captain

  1. Question 6

 

In 2005, the Court held in United States v. Booker that federal judges no longer were required to follow the ______ that had been in effect since 1987.

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capital punishment

corporal punishment

sentencing guidelines

three strikes laws

  1. Question 7

 

Members of ______ are the most highly trained and skilled emergency response security staff.

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armed disturbance control teams

mediation control teams

disturbance control teams

special operations response teams

 

  1. Question 8

 

This model of management creates a formal organizational system that operates in a system that is not dependent on the specific personnel or personalities assigned within it.

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bureaucratic forms of management

authoritarian forms of management

participative method of management

proactive styles of management

  1. Question 9

 

______ circumstances magnify the offensive nature of the crime and tend to result in longer sentences.

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Aggravating

Reinforced

Mitigating

Lessened

  1. Question 10

 

The term ______ refers to persons who have been vested with an official title by the agency and who tend to be focusing on the process of completing functions of operations within the prison facility.

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response team

leadership

administrators

management

 

  1. Question 11

 

The most common type of local correction system is a ______.

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city-based correctional system

county-based correctional system

 

state-run correctional system

private institution

  1. Question 12

 

______ refers to inconsistencies in sentencing and/or sanctions that result from the decision-making process.

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Detention

Disparity

Discrimination

Prejudice

  1. Question 13

 

General deterrence is the concept of ______ an offender in public so that other observers will refrain from future criminal behavior.

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incarcerating

punishing

discouraging

retribution

  1. Question 14

 

The ______ specifies the exact length of the sentence to be served by the inmate.

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determinate presumptive sentencing

indeterminate sentencing

three strikes sentencing

deterrence sentencing

  1. Question 15

 

Who heads the National Institute of Corrections (NIC)?

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U.S. Intelligence Director

President of the United States

U.S. Attorney General

Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation

  1. Question 16

 

______ is the concept of punishing an offender in public so that other observers will refrain from future criminal behavior.

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General deterrence

Specific deterrence

Specific incapacitation

General retribution

  1. Question 17

 

______ is implemented by identifying inmates who are of particular concern to public safety and by providing those specific offenders with much longer sentences than would be given to other inmates.

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Selective retribution

Selective incapacitation

 

Selective parole

Selective probation

  1. Question 18

 

The ideal situation is to have a ______ who is both intelligent and experienced.

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leader

 

manager

supervisor

follower

  1. Question 19

 

Broad managerial documents that include goals and objectives of the agency and state the general direction in which an agency intends to operate are known as ______.

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tactical plans

bureaucratic plans

 

unit plans

 

strategic plans

  1. Question 20

 

The purpose of ______ is to make available a continuum of sanctions scaled around one or more sanctioning goals.

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intermediate sanctions

probation

parole

incarceration