Question 1

The Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP)has identified five significant developments that have taken place over the past decade with significant executive or legislative actions.List and define three of those five developments.

Accepted Answer

Transfer provisions -laws that make it easier to transfer juvenile offenders from the juvenile justice system to the criminal justice system.
Sentencing authority -laws that give criminal and juvenile.
courts expanded sentencing options,such as blended sentences,in cases involving juveniles
Confidentiality changes -modifications to laws containing court confidentiality provisions in order to make juvenile records and proceedings more open.
Victims' rights -new laws that increase the role of victims of juvenile crime in the juvenile justice process.
Correctional programming -the development of new programs in adult and juvenile facilities to handle juveniles sentenced as adults or as violent juvenile offenders.

Question 2

The combination of the government agencies that function to investigate,supervise,adjudicate,care for,or confine youthful offenders and other children subject to the jurisdiction of the juvenile court is known as the _________________.

Accepted Answer

Juvenile Justice System

Question 3

Discuss the causes of prison riots.What steps can corrections take to eliminate or minimize riots in the future?

Accepted Answer

An insensitive prison administration that neglects inmates' demands.Calls for "fairness" in disciplinary hearings,better food,more recreational opportunities,and the
like may lead to riots when ignored.The lifestyles most inmates are familiar with on the streets.
It should be no surprise that prisoners use organized violence
when many of them are violent people.
Dehumanizing prison conditions.Overcrowded facilities,the lack of opportunity for individual expression,and other aspects of total institutions culminate in explosive situations,including riots.
A desire to regulate inmate society and redistribute power balances among inmate groups.Riots provide the opportunity to "cleanse" the prison population of informers and rats and to resolve struggles among power brokers and ethnic groups within the institution.
"Power vacuums" created by changes in prison administration,the transfer of influential inmates,or court ordered injunctions that significantly alter the informal social control mechanisms of the institution.

Question 4

Few women's prisons have programs specifically designed for female offenders.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 5

___________ is the first step in decision making regarding a juvenile whose behavior or alleged behavior is in violation of the law or could otherwise cause a juvenile court to assume jurisdiction.

Accepted Answer

A)   adjudicatory hearing
B)   transfer hearing
C)   finding of delinquency
D)   intake

Question 6

Career female offenders who have adapted to prison life and generally keep to themselves are known as the:

Accepted Answer

A)   square
B)   cool
C)   life
D)   homebody

Question 7

Brown v.Plata was a 2011 landmark case from California that dealt with:

Accepted Answer

A)   Racial issues
B)   Gangs in prisons
C)   Overcrowding conditions
D)   Female prisoner rights

Question 8

Judges are the only officials authorized to conduct detention hearings

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 9

The number of prisoners __________ increased more than 400% between 1990 and 2010.

Accepted Answer

The answer of The number of prisoners __________ increased more...

Question 10

"Crack Kids" in prison argot are:

Accepted Answer

A)   Babies born in prison.
B)   Streetwise young women with no respect for traditional prison values.
C)   Streetwise young women who are drug dealers in prison.
D)   Female prison inmates who are children of drug dealers.

Question 11

______________ is a policy of nonintervention with regard to prison management that U.S.courts tended to follow until the late 1960s.For the past 40 years,the doctrine has languished as judicial intervention in prison administration dramatically increased.

Accepted Answer

The answer of ______________ is a policy of nonintervention with...

Question 12

The final stage in the processing of adjudicated juveniles in which a decision is made on the form of treatment or penalty is the ________ hearing.

Accepted Answer

The answer of The final stage in the processing of...

Question 13

Match the term in the numbered column with the answer in the lettered column.

-Delinquent children

Accepted Answer

A)  those who violate the criminal law.If they were adults, the word criminal would be applied to them.
B)  typically have no parents or guardians to care for them.Their parents are deceased, they were placed for adoption, or they were abandoned in violation of the law.
C)  those who suffer physical abuse at the hands of their custodians.This category was laterexpanded to include emotional and sexual abuse."
D)  those who do not receive proper care from their parents or guardians.They may suffer from malnutrition or may not be provided with adequate shelter.

Question 14

Match the term in the numbered column with the answer in the lettered column.

-Abused children

Accepted Answer

A)  those who violate the criminal law.If they were adults, the word criminal would be applied to them.
B)  typically have no parents or guardians to care for them.Their parents are deceased, they were placed for adoption, or they were abandoned in violation of the law.
C)  those who suffer physical abuse at the hands of their custodians.This category was laterexpanded to include emotional and sexual abuse."
D)  those who do not receive proper care from their parents or guardians.They may suffer from malnutrition or may not be provided with adequate shelter.

Question 15

List and define the three different lifestyles researcher Esther Heffernan found as indicative of lifestyle adaptation in female prisons.

Accepted Answer

The answer of List and define the three different lifestyles...

Question 16

Permanent organizational and structural modifications intended to alter the juvenile justice system,including the closing of facilities and the elimination of agencies is a strategy for future treatment of juveniles known as:

Accepted Answer

A)   Resolution strategies
B)   Reinvestment strategies
C)   Realignment strategies
D)   Reinvention strategies

Question 17

Which of the following is not one of the six categories of children in the juvenile justice system?

Accepted Answer

A)   delinquent children
B)   uncontrollable children
C)   abused children
D)   dependent children

Question 18

A principle,developed by the courts and applied to the corrections arena by Pell v.Procunier (1974),that attempts to weigh the rights of an individual,as guaranteed by the Constitution,against the authority of states to make laws or to otherwise restrict a person's freedom in order to protect the state's interests and its citizens is commonly known as the _______________ test.

Accepted Answer

The answer of A principle,developed by the courts and applied...

Question 19

Children who violate the criminal law are considered to be:

Accepted Answer

A)   delinquent.
B)   neglected.
C)   undisciplined.
D)   dependent.

Question 20

Prison staffers are concerned with two main issues:

Accepted Answer

A)   custody and rehabilitation
B)   rehabilitation and control
C)   custody and training
D)   custody and control

Exam 14: Prison Life