Question 1

Match each item to the phrase or sentence listed below.
a. Apply objective criteria to all incarcerated people
b. IQs of less than 70
c. A person with several convictions
d. Returning convicts to the community
e. Commit what appear to be one-time offenses
f. Confined for life or until cured
g. Classification based on possible future criminal conduct
h. Classification based on appropriate correctional treatment
i. Classification based on seriousness of crime
j. Person who spends more than 10 years incarcerated
-Career criminal

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Question 2

Once a person is , a range of punishments of escalating severity may be imposed.

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Question 3

Correctional clients, as a group, seem to the rest of society.

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A)  differ slightly from 
B)  differ greatly from 
C)  be similar to 
D)  be indistinguishable from

Question 4

What distinct advantages and challenges does the elderly person in prison present? Should we continue to incarcerate people past a certain age? Why or why not?

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Question 5

Discuss the characteristics of "long-termers" in terms of (1) the risk they represent to the community, (2) their need for special kinds of correctional programming, and (3) distinctions that need to be made among people within each group.

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Question 6

Individuals classified as having a are people whose rational processes do not seem to operate in normal ways.

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Question 7

Match each item to the phrase or sentence listed below.
a. Apply objective criteria to all incarcerated people
b. IQs of less than 70
c. A person with several convictions
d. Returning convicts to the community
e. Commit what appear to be one-time offenses
f. Confined for life or until cured
g. Classification based on possible future criminal conduct
h. Classification based on appropriate correctional treatment
i. Classification based on seriousness of crime
j. Person who spends more than 10 years incarcerated
-Deinstitutionalization

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Question 8

Classification decisions are subject to sociopolitical pressures, but only under certain circumstances.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 9

To combat ambiguities in classification, correctional administrators have started using .

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A)  more subjective criteria in an attempt to successfully predict future criminal behavior 
B)  expanded criteria to admit all relevant facts and use those facts involved in the case 
C)  a limited number of factors pertaining to substance abuse 
D)  classification systems that recognize similarities and differences between clients

Question 10

The most slippery concept in the classification of clients is that of the .

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A)  career criminal 
B)  violent 
C)  sex offender 
D)  mentally ill

Question 11

clients are more likely to seek solitude.

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A)  Situational 
B)  Elderly 
C)  Drug abuser 
D)  Habitual

Question 12

When the justice system brings the more serious cases forward for more severe punishment, it acts as a selective
__________.

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Question 13

One correctional policy decision that may influence who becomes a correctional client is that street crimes warrant more attention from police.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 14

Match each item to the phrase or sentence listed below.
a. Apply objective criteria to all incarcerated people
b. IQs of less than 70
c. A person with several convictions
d. Returning convicts to the community
e. Commit what appear to be one-time offenses
f. Confined for life or until cured
g. Classification based on possible future criminal conduct
h. Classification based on appropriate correctional treatment
i. Classification based on seriousness of crime
j. Person who spends more than 10 years incarcerated
-Program criteria

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Question 15

Match each item to the phrase or sentence listed below.
a. Apply objective criteria to all incarcerated people
b. IQs of less than 70
c. A person with several convictions
d. Returning convicts to the community
e. Commit what appear to be one-time offenses
f. Confined for life or until cured
g. Classification based on possible future criminal conduct
h. Classification based on appropriate correctional treatment
i. Classification based on seriousness of crime
j. Person who spends more than 10 years incarcerated
-Civil commitment

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Question 16

Correctional treatment programs have proven to be effective with .

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A)  compulsive and habitual drug abusers 
B)  pedophiles 
C)  career criminals 
D)  None of these are correct

Question 17

Because of , many former mental patients end up as corrections clients.

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Question 18

Due to prison overcrowding, correctional officials believe that clients are most appropriate for early release because these clients typically pose little or no threat to the public.

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Question 19

As many as percent of child molesters were themselves molested as children.

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A)  10 
B)  90 
C)  25 
D)  50

Question 20

Discuss the changes that have occurred over time in how clients with mental illnesses are dealt with in corrections, and the foreseeable changes in the future for the corrections classification process.

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Exam 6: The Correctional Client

Once a person is , a range of punishments of escalating severity may be imposed.

Correctional clients, as a group, seem to the rest of society.

What distinct advantages and challenges does the elderly person in prison present? Should we continue to incarcerate people past a certain age? Why or why not?

Discuss the characteristics of "long-termers" in terms of (1) the risk they represent to the community, (2) their need for special kinds of correctional programming, and (3) distinctions that need to be made among people within each group.

Individuals classified as having a are people whose rational processes do not seem to operate in normal ways.

Classification decisions are subject to sociopolitical pressures, but only under certain circumstances.

To combat ambiguities in classification, correctional administrators have started using .

The most slippery concept in the classification of clients is that of the .

clients are more likely to seek solitude.

When the justice system brings the more serious cases forward for more severe punishment, it acts as a selective __________.

One correctional policy decision that may influence who becomes a correctional client is that street crimes warrant more attention from police.

Correctional treatment programs have proven to be effective with .

Because of , many former mental patients end up as corrections clients.

Due to prison overcrowding, correctional officials believe that clients are most appropriate for early release because these clients typically pose little or no threat to the public.

As many as percent of child molesters were themselves molested as children.

Discuss the changes that have occurred over time in how clients with mental illnesses are dealt with in corrections, and the foreseeable changes in the future for the corrections classification process.