Exam 1: Crisis in Criminal Justice Policy

Briefly explain why people started doubting the wisdom and effectiveness of criminal justice policies in the 1960s and 1970s.

For __________, rehabilitation undermined law and order by "coddling" the criminal.

Attica and other prison uprisings made clear to the public that prisons were disproportionally filled with __________ and __________.

In 1977, it was declared that both __________ and __________ had failed and a crisis in American criminal justice policy prevailed.

Describe in detail the attack on rehabilitation. In your answer, be sure to address the differences between conservatives' and liberals' views on the rehabilitative ideal and on what the two political camps agreed and disagreed.

Briefly explain the role the media played in uncovering the brutalizing practices and oppression that inmates experienced during the 1960s.

For __________, rehabilitation was seen not to allow for the betterment of society's captives but rather to be a major source of the coercive, discriminatory treatment suffered by prison inmates.

Defendant Jennifer is tried and found guilty of arson in a court of law. The judge then sentences Jennifer for a term that could span 2 to 6 years in Dayton Correctional Institution. This is an example of what type of sentence?

Defendant Daniel is tried and found guilty of robbery in a court of law. The judge then sentences Daniel to three years in the Ohio State Penitentiary. This is an example of what type of sentence?

By the middle part of the 1970s, conservatives believed that rehabilitation had resulted in the victimization of the __________, while liberals asserted the opposite: rehabilitation had eventuated in the victimization of the __________. Regardless, both embraced proposals for determinate sentencing.

While both conservatives and liberals embraced proposals for determinate sentencing, they disagreed in one fundamental respect. What was this inconsistency?

If a judge presiding over a criminal case is left free to select any sentence up to but not exceeding a legislatively fixed sentence, this is an example of what type of sentence?

Several alternative proposals vied to replace rehabilitation as the dominant correctional paradigm in the field. What correctional paradigm "won" in the 1970s?