Exam 7: Ethics in Corrections: the Nature of Corrections

What new form of incarceration has been a pathway through civil contempt proceedings against court debtors?

One of the outcomes of mass incarceration policies has been ______.

Jacobs' (1977)study of the Illinois Stateville Prison describes the early days that exhibited imposition of arbitrary and ad hoc discipline,which was followed by ______.

In light of the costs of incarceration,what new class of prisoner has been created?

Which country has the highest incarceration rate in the world?

Prison officers have a myriad of ways of retaliating against troublesome inmates,short of writing tickets for rule violations.These are termed forms of ______ control.

According to the timeline of events,during which year did the Department of Justice continue its policy of playing a lead role in campaigning for more punitive crime control policies?

Females comprised ______ of the total national prison population by the end of 2016.

Warden Joe Ragen sought to make Stateville the world's most ______ prison.

Which of the following is not one of the results of overcrowding?

According to Hepburn (1985),which type of power involves prison officers who are invested with authority to command as a result of their position as a guard of prisoners?

Those professing a belief in ______ authority as well as those favoring legalistic authority agreed that full enforcement of institutional regulations would effectively cause the institution to cease operating because all inmates would be forever locked down for rule violations.

LFOs are ______.

The task of the state is to protect institutions.

Name one outcome of mass incarceration policies.

By the end of 2015,about _______adults in the U.S.was under some type of correctional supervision.

The female prison population has ______ since 1990.

Prison officers and prison officials often experience ethical problems because of the conflict between their obligations to rehabilitate on the one hand and punish and control on the other.

Most ______ prisons have been built since 1925.

In 2009,the U.S.Supreme Court ordered that California prison populations must be reduced to ______% of design capacity within two years.