Week 4 correction systems midterm
Midterm examination covering correctional systems, policies, and prison management.
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Week 4 correction systems midterm
Question 1
1. Counting jails and prisons, approximately how many citizens are incarcerated?
A. a. 1 million
B. b. 2.3 million
C. c. 3 million
D. d. 4.3 million
2 points
Question 2
2. Which important scholar argued that criminals and their punishment are functional in society, help to
define norms and expectations for conformity?
A. a. Emile Durkheim
B. b. Cesare Beccaria
C. c. Travis Hirshchi
D. d. Cesare Lombroso
2 points
Question 3
3. Political liberals and _______________ encouraged reform of the prison system during the
Enlightenment Period.
A. a. Political conservatives
B. b. independents
C. c. religious groups
Question 1
1. Counting jails and prisons, approximately how many citizens are incarcerated?
A. a. 1 million
B. b. 2.3 million
C. c. 3 million
D. d. 4.3 million
2 points
Question 2
2. Which important scholar argued that criminals and their punishment are functional in society, help to
define norms and expectations for conformity?
A. a. Emile Durkheim
B. b. Cesare Beccaria
C. c. Travis Hirshchi
D. d. Cesare Lombroso
2 points
Question 3
3. Political liberals and _______________ encouraged reform of the prison system during the
Enlightenment Period.
A. a. Political conservatives
B. b. independents
C. c. religious groups
D. d. political liberals
2 points
Question 4
4. Lex talionis embodies which of the following principles?
A. a. Punishment should correspond in degree and kind to the offense.
B. b. An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth is legal punishment.
C. c. Punishment needs to be proportionate.
D. d. All of these
2 points
Question 5
5. The Penitentiary Act was based upon four core principles where prisoners were confined in solitary
cells and labored silently in common rooms. They include
A. a. secure and sanitary conditions.
B. b. nonsystematic inspections.
C. c. fees for inmates.
D. d. a continued regimen.
2 points
Question 6
6. How was the existing system of justice altered during the Enlightenment?
A. a. People reconsidered the administration of law and redefined corrections.
B. b. During this period the classical school of criminology emerged, with its insistence on a
rational link between the gravity of the crime and the severity of the punishment.
C. c. The social contract and utilitarianism emphasized limitations on the government and
the need to erect a system of punishments so that people would be deterred from crime.
2 points
Question 4
4. Lex talionis embodies which of the following principles?
A. a. Punishment should correspond in degree and kind to the offense.
B. b. An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth is legal punishment.
C. c. Punishment needs to be proportionate.
D. d. All of these
2 points
Question 5
5. The Penitentiary Act was based upon four core principles where prisoners were confined in solitary
cells and labored silently in common rooms. They include
A. a. secure and sanitary conditions.
B. b. nonsystematic inspections.
C. c. fees for inmates.
D. d. a continued regimen.
2 points
Question 6
6. How was the existing system of justice altered during the Enlightenment?
A. a. People reconsidered the administration of law and redefined corrections.
B. b. During this period the classical school of criminology emerged, with its insistence on a
rational link between the gravity of the crime and the severity of the punishment.
C. c. The social contract and utilitarianism emphasized limitations on the government and
the need to erect a system of punishments so that people would be deterred from crime.
D. d. All of these
2 points
Question 7
7. The __________ was a penitentiary system developed in Pennsylvania in which each inmate was held
in isolation from other inmates.
A. a. congregate system
B. b. assemble system
C. c. separate confinement system
D. d. segregated confinement system
2 points
Question 8
8. During the Progressive Reform Era, two main strategies were implemented. They included improving
conditions in social environments and ______________.
A. a. feeding inmates better food.
B. b. ensuring prisoners were not in solitude.
C. c. reintegrating inmates into society.
D. d. rehabilitating individual offenders.
2 points
Question 9
9. The Military Commissions Act (MCA) __________ the ability of “unlawful enemy combatants” to file a
writ of habeas corpus.
A. a. permits
B. b. fosters
2 points
Question 7
7. The __________ was a penitentiary system developed in Pennsylvania in which each inmate was held
in isolation from other inmates.
A. a. congregate system
B. b. assemble system
C. c. separate confinement system
D. d. segregated confinement system
2 points
Question 8
8. During the Progressive Reform Era, two main strategies were implemented. They included improving
conditions in social environments and ______________.
A. a. feeding inmates better food.
B. b. ensuring prisoners were not in solitude.
C. c. reintegrating inmates into society.
D. d. rehabilitating individual offenders.
2 points
Question 9
9. The Military Commissions Act (MCA) __________ the ability of “unlawful enemy combatants” to file a
writ of habeas corpus.
A. a. permits
B. b. fosters
C. c. enhances
D. d. eliminates
2 points
Question 10
10. Which court decision held the basic elements of procedural due process must be present when
decisions are made concerning the disciplining of an inmate?
A. a. Wolff v. McDonnell
B. b. Holt v. Sarver
C. c. Estelle v. Gamble
D. d. Pugh v. Locke
2 points
Question 11
11. Which case allowed inmates to sue state officials for brutality, inadequate medical care and
nutrition, theft of personal property and the denial of basic rights:
A. a. Cooper v. Pate
B. b. Terry v. Ohio
C. c. Carroll v US
D. d. Gregg v GA
2 points
Question 12
12. In Boumediene v. Bush, the Court ruled the detainees at Guantanamo Bay are entitled to:
A. a. a lawyer.
B. b. challenge the conditions of their confinement.
D. d. eliminates
2 points
Question 10
10. Which court decision held the basic elements of procedural due process must be present when
decisions are made concerning the disciplining of an inmate?
A. a. Wolff v. McDonnell
B. b. Holt v. Sarver
C. c. Estelle v. Gamble
D. d. Pugh v. Locke
2 points
Question 11
11. Which case allowed inmates to sue state officials for brutality, inadequate medical care and
nutrition, theft of personal property and the denial of basic rights:
A. a. Cooper v. Pate
B. b. Terry v. Ohio
C. c. Carroll v US
D. d. Gregg v GA
2 points
Question 12
12. In Boumediene v. Bush, the Court ruled the detainees at Guantanamo Bay are entitled to:
A. a. a lawyer.
B. b. challenge the conditions of their confinement.
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