Ch10 Classification And Assessment Test Questions & Answers - Complete Test Bank | Corrections Policy to Practice 2e by Mary K. Stohr. DOCX document preview.
Chapter 10: Classification and Assessment of Offenders
Test Bank
Multiple Choice
1. ______ is the process of making judgment about something or someone based on certain criteria.
a. Classification
b. Actuarial method
c. Assessment
d. Custodial level
Learning Objective: 10-1: Evaluate the importance of assessment and classification in identifying custody status and offender risk and needs.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Assessing Risks and Needs
Difficulty Level: Easy
2. ______ is the process of sorting things into categories according to their shared qualities or characteristics to achieve some purpose.
a. Classification
b. Actuarial method
c. Assessment
d. Custodial level
Learning Objective: 10-1: Evaluate the importance of assessment and classification in identifying custody status and offender risk and needs.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: What is Classification and Assessment?
Difficulty Level: Easy
3. To accomplish assessment, correctional workers use well-researched and tested instruments that document which of the following?
a. Knowledge
b. Skills
c. Weaknesses
d. all of these
Learning Objective: 10-1: Evaluate the importance of assessment and classification in identifying custody status and offender risk and needs.
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Assessing Risks and Needs
Difficulty Level: Easy
4. In the early 1800s, the Charlestown Prison in ______ established a tri-level system of classification based on prior convictions.
a. Maryland
b. Massachusetts
c. Maine
d. Montana
Learning Objective: 10-2: Describe the history of offender classification and how it has evolved.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Early Attempts at Classification
Difficulty Level: Easy
5. Which of the following types of offenders received the first best quarters, job assignments, and food?
a. mentally ill and elderly offenders
b. juvenile offenders
c. first-time offenders
d. habitual offenders
Learning Objective: 10-2: Describe the history of offender classification and how it has evolved.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Early Attempts at Classification
Difficulty Level: Easy
6. Second-time offenders were allowed only ______ meals per day.
a. one
b. two
c. three
d. four
Learning Objective: 10-2: Describe the history of offender classification and how it has evolved.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Early Attempts at Classification
Difficulty Level: Easy
7. Which of the following individuals created the marks system?
a. Maconochie
b. Brockway
c. Crofton
d. Beccaria
Learning Objective: 10-2: Describe the history of offender classification and how it has evolved.
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Early Attempts at Classification
Difficulty Level: Medium
8. President Herbert Hoover established the National Commission on Law Observance and Enforcement (otherwise known as Wickersham Commission) in:
a. 1920
b. 1925
c. 1929
d. 1931
Learning Objective: 10-2: Describe the history of offender classification and how it has evolved.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Early Attempts at Classification
Difficulty Level: Easy
9. The Wickersham Commission’s main concern was:
a. prison security
b. staff safety
c. public protection
d. all of these
Learning Objective: 10-2: Describe the history of offender classification and how it has evolved.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Early Attempts at Classification
Difficulty Level: Easy
10. The Morris v. Travisono (1970) case was brought by inmates at a ______ prison.
a. Nevada
b. New York
c. Rhode Island
d. Maryland
Learning Objective: 10-2: Describe the history of offender classification and how it has evolved.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Early Attempts at Classification
Difficulty Level: Easy
11. Which of the following were identified as core intake functions?
a. Sentencing the offender.
b. Arresting the offender.
c. Performing medical and mental health assessments.
d. Determining whether the prisoner will be paroled.
Learning Objective: 10-3: Examine the important items on a classification scale, and discuss why you think they are important.
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Classification Today
Difficulty Level: Easy
12. Areas of concern related to custodial safety include which of the following?
a. Consideration of suicidal gestures
b. The protection of any inmates known to be informants
c. The protection of inmates whose crimes make them targets for abuse
d. All of these
Learning Objective: 10-3: Examine the important items on a classification scale, and discuss why you think they are important.
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Classification Today
Difficulty Level: Easy
13. Access to programs and activities such as educational and vocational opportunities, counseling services, and recreational and hobby activities is largely determined by
a. custody level.
b. offenders needs.
c. resources.
d. age and gender.
Learning Objective: 10-3: Examine the important items on a classification scale, and discuss why you think they are important.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: The National Institute of Corrections Custody Classification Model
Difficulty Level: Easy
14. The National Institute of Corrections Model for custody and need instrument identifies ________areas of assessment that provide for objective custodial placement.
a. 5
b. 8
c. 12
d. 14
Learning Objective: 10-3: Examine the important items on a classification scale, and discuss why you think they are important.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: The National Institute of Corrections Custody Classification Model
Difficulty Level: Easy
15. In ______, meals are supervised.
a. minimum security level prisons
b. medium security level prisons
c. maximum security level prisons
d. supermax security level prisons
Learning Objective: 10-3: Examine the important items on a classification scale, and discuss why you think they are important.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: The National Institute of Corrections Custody Classification Model
Difficulty Level: Easy
16. In ______, day movement inside the facility is unrestricted.
a. minimum security level prisons
b. medium security level prisons
c. maximum security level prisons
d. supermax security level prisons
Learning Objective: 10-3: Examine the important items on a classification scale, and discuss why you think they are important.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: The National Institute of Corrections Custody Classification Model
Difficulty Level: Easy
17. In ______, inmates who leave the institution have a minimum of two escorts with one armed, full restraints; strip search prior to departure and upon return.
a. minimum security level prisons
b. medium security level prisons
c. maximum security level prisons
d. supermax security level prisons
Learning Objective: 10-3: Examine the important items on a classification scale, and discuss why you think they are important.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: The National Institute of Corrections Custody Classification Model
Difficulty Level: Easy
18. In the prison intake process, which of the following staff are responsible for the identification process?
a. Security staff
b. Nurse staff
c. Mental health staff
d. Records and classification staff
Learning Objective: 10-3: Examine the important items on a classification scale, and discuss why you think they are important.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Adult Internal Management System (AIMS)
Difficulty Level: Easy
19. In the prison intake process, which of the following staff are responsible for criminal history?
a. Security staff
b. Nurse staff
c. Mental health staff
d. Records and classification staff
Learning Objective: 10-3: Examine the important items on a classification scale, and discuss why you think they are important.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Adult Internal Management System (AIMS)
Difficulty Level: Easy
20. Which of the following AIMS model groups are classified as light?
a. I and II
b. II and III
c. III and IV
d. IV and V
Learning Objective: 10-3: Examine the important items on a classification scale, and discuss why you think they are important.
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Adult Internal Management System (AIMS)
Difficulty Level: Easy
21. In a needs assessment, the areas of primary concern are:
a. social
b. medical
c. familial
d. financial
Learning Objective: 10-3: Examine the important items on a classification scale, and discuss why you think they are important.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Needs Assessment and Classification
Difficulty Level: Easy
22. Included in the final needs assessment summary are which of the following?
a. Custody level and score
b. Parole date
c. Medication list
d. Background check results
Learning Objective: 10-3: Examine the important items on a classification scale, and discuss why you think they are important.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Needs Assessment and Classification
Difficulty Level: Easy
23. Psychopaths are callous individuals who lack the social emotions of:
a. guilt
b. shame
c. embarrassment
d. all of these
Learning Objective: 10-3: Examine the important items on a classification scale, and discuss why you think they are important.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Psychopathy Checklist–Revised
Difficulty Level: Easy
24. Psychopaths make up 15% to ______ of the prison population.
a. 20%
b. 25%
c. 30%
d. 35%
Learning Objective: 10-3: Examine the important items on a classification scale, and discuss why you think they are important.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Psychopathy Checklist–Revised
Difficulty Level: Easy
25. Offenders in general have an average PCL-R score of:
a. 15
b. 22
c. 27
d. 31
Learning Objective: 10-3: Examine the important items on a classification scale, and discuss why you think they are important.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Psychopathy Checklist–Revised
Difficulty Level: Easy
26. In what decade did a shift to objective actuarial methods based on known risk factors to predict treatment needs occur?
a. 1950s
b. 1960s
c. 1970s
d. 1980s
Learning Objective: 10-5: Describe the limitations inherent in classifying humans.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Assessment and Classification in Community Corrections
Difficulty Level: Easy
27. Actuarial assessment uses historical data, such as:
a. criminal records
b. history of drug and alcohol use
c. employment history
d. all of these
Learning Objective: 10-5: Describe the limitations inherent in classifying humans.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Assessment and Classification in Community Corrections
Difficulty Level: Easy
28. The Case Management Classification System is used by ______ of responding agencies.
a. 25.6%
b. 36.1%
c. 43.5%
d. 48.2%
Learning Objective: 10-5: Describe the limitations inherent in classifying humans.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: The Client Management Classification Assessment Instrument
Difficulty Level: Easy
29. The average caseload of a probation officer is around ______ cases.
a. 120
b. 130
c. 139
d. 141
Learning Objective: 10-5: Describe the limitations inherent in classifying humans.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: The CMC and Supervision Levels
Difficulty Level: Easy
30. Offenders in the ______ category are firmly bedded in a criminal lifestyle and are thus at high risk for probation or parole failure.
a. casework/Control
b. environmental Structure
c. limit setting
d. selective Intervention
Learning Objective: 10-5: Describe the limitations inherent in classifying humans.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Limit Setting
Difficulty Level: Easy
31. Offenders in the _____ are considered to be low-risk and low-needs. They are minimally criminally involved, and they have a stake in conformity.
a. casework/Control
b. environmental Structure
c. limit setting
d. selective Intervention
Learning Objective: 10-5: Describe the limitations inherent in classifying humans.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Selective Intervention
Difficulty Level: Easy
32. Placing _____ offenders in the same restrictive programs as high-risk offenders exposes them to bad influences that may disrupt the very factrs that made them low-risk in the first place.
a. casework/Control
b. environmental Structure
c. limit setting
d. selective Intervention
Learning Objective: 10-5: Describe the limitations inherent in classifying humans.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Selective Intervention
Difficulty Level: Easy
33. _____ are offenders who are on the low end of medium risk and require regular supervision.
a. casework/Control
b. environmental structure
c. limit setting
d. selective Intervention
Learning Objective: 10-5: Describe the limitations inherent in classifying humans.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Environmental Structure
Difficulty Level: Easy
34. Which of the following types of offenders constitute the majority of probationers and perhaps a few parolees?
a. environmental structure
b. casework/control
c. limit setting
d. selective Intervention
Learning Objective: 10-5: Describe the limitations inherent in classifying humans.
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Environmental Structure
Difficulty Level: Medium
35. ______ offenders tend to be more entrenches in the criminal lifestyle and are more likely to have severe drug and/or alcohol problems.
a. environmental structure
b. casework/control
c. limit setting
d. selective Intervention
Learning Objective: 10-5: Describe the limitations inherent in classifying humans.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Casework and Control
Difficulty Level: Easy
36. Offenders in the _____ category require a great deal of officer time and considerable coordination of auxiliary programs in the community.
a. casework and control
b. environmental structure
c. limit setting
d. selective intervention
Learning Objective: 10-5: Describe the limitations inherent in classifying humans.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Casework and Control
Difficulty Level: Easy
37. Protection of the community of offenders is of primary concern with offenders of the _____ type.
a. environmental structure
b. casework/control
c. selective intervention
d. limit setting
Learning Objective: 10-5: Describe the limitations inherent in classifying humans.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Limit Setting
Difficulty Level: Easy
38. Which of the following is an example of a dynamic factor?
a. age
b. sex
c. weight
d. genetic inheritance
Learning Objective: 10-5: Describe the limitations inherent in classifying humans.
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Risk and Needs Assessment Scales
Difficulty Level: Easy
39. Which of the following is an example of a static factor?
a. age
b. stress
c. weight
d. lack of exercise
Learning Objective: 10-5: Describe the limitations inherent in classifying humans.
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Risk and Needs Assessment Scales
Difficulty Level: Easy
40. _____ refers to the probability of reoffending and/or the threat the offender poses to the community.
a. Custodial level
b. Offender risk
c. Criminogenic needs
d. Actuarial method
Learning Objective: 10-5: Describe the limitations inherent in classifying humans.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Risk and Needs Assessment Scales
Difficulty Level: Easy
True/False
1. The need for proper risk and needs assessment is more important for community corrections than for institutional corrections.
Learning Objective: 10-5: Describe the limitations inherent in classifying humans.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Assessment and Classification in Community Corrections
Difficulty Level: Easy
2. Diagnostic interviews typically only last 30 min.
Learning Objective: 10-3: Examine the important items on a classification scale, and discuss why you think they are important.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Psychopathy Checklist–Revised
Difficulty Level: Easy
3. An instrument widely used around the world to identify the most troublesome and dangerous of criminals is Hare’s Psychopathy Checklist-Revised.
Learning Objective: 10-3: Examine the important items on a classification scale, and discuss why you think they are important.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Psychopathy Checklist–Revised
Difficulty Level: Easy
4. The AIMS model establishes eight groups based on the behavioral characteristics of inmates.
Learning Objective: 10-3: Examine the important items on a classification scale, and discuss why you think they are important.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Adult Internal Management System (AIMS)
Difficulty Level: Easy
5. Classification and assessment are related, but distinct processes.
Learning Objective: 10-1: Evaluate the importance of assessment and classification in identifying custody status and offender risk and needs.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: What is Classification and Assessment?
Difficulty Level: Easy
6. The “things” being classified in the criminal justice system are the system, and the purpose for categorizing the system.
Learning Objective: 10-1: Evaluate the importance of assessment and classification in identifying custody status and offender risk and needs.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: What is Classification and Assessment?
Difficulty Level: Easy
7. Classifying prison inmates is an immensely important function.
Learning Objective: 10-1: Evaluate the importance of assessment and classification in identifying custody status and offender risk and needs.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: What is Classification and Assessment?
Difficulty Level: Easy
8. The actuarial method of making predictions is based on statistical analyses of behavior patterns of people similarly situated averaged over many thousands of cases.
Learning Objective: 10-1: Evaluate the importance of assessment and classification in identifying custody status and offender risk and needs.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Predicting Behavior
Difficulty Level: Easy
9. Classification errors tend more often to be false negative than false positive.
Learning Objective: 10-1: Evaluate the importance of assessment and classification in identifying custody status and offender risk and needs.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Predicting Behavior
Difficulty Level: Easy
10. Societies have historically responded to criminal acts almost exclusively from a rehabilitation stance.
Learning Objective: 10-2: Describe the history of offender classification and how it has evolved.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: The History of Classification and Assessment
Difficulty Level: Easy
11. Early jails and prisons did not even classify inmates according to age or gender.
Learning Objective: 10-2: Describe the history of offender classification and how it has evolved.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: The History of Classification and Assessment
Difficulty Level: Easy
12. Third-time, or habitual offenders, did the most menial tasks and received the worst food and accommodation.
Learning Objective: 10-2: Describe the history of offender classification and how it has evolved.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Early Attempts at Classification
Difficulty Level: Easy
13. Zebulon Brockway created the marks system.
Learning Objective: 10-2: Describe the history of offender classification and how it has evolved.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Early Attempts at Classification
Difficulty Level: Easy
14. President Franklin d. Roosevelt established the National Commission on Law Observance and Enforcement (otherwise known as Wickersham Commission).
Learning Objective: 10-2: Describe the history of offender classification and how it has evolved.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Early Attempts at Classification
Difficulty Level: Easy
15. Classification takes precedence over needs assessment in institutional corrections.
Learning Objective: 10-3: Examine the important items on a classification scale, and discuss why you think they are important.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Classification Today
Difficulty Level: Easy
16. Proper classification protects other inmates and correctional staff.
Learning Objective: 10-3: Examine the important items on a classification scale, and discuss why you think they are important.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Classification Today
Difficulty Level: Easy
17. Upon arrival at an institution, all offenders are considered open-custody.
Learning Objective: 10-3: Examine the important items on a classification scale, and discuss why you think they are important.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Classification Today
Difficulty Level: Easy
18. Stability factors are legal holds that another jurisdiction has placed on an inmate.
Learning Objective: 10-3: Examine the important items on a classification scale, and discuss why you think they are important.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: The National Institute of Corrections Custody Classification Model
Difficulty Level: Easy
19. The most widely used internal classification system is the Adult Internal Classification System.
Learning Objective: 10-3: Examine the important items on a classification scale, and discuss why you think they are important.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Adult Internal Management System (AIMS)
Difficulty Level: Easy
20. A furlough authorizes an overnight absence from the prison; a day pass, only during daylight hours.
Learning Objective: 10-3: Examine the important items on a classification scale, and discuss why you think they are important.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: The National Institute of Corrections Custody Classification Model
Difficulty Level: Easy
Short Answer
1. What is the most widely used instrument in needs assessment?
Learning Objective: 10-5: Describe the limitations inherent in classifying humans.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: The Client Management Classification Assessment Instrument
Difficulty Level: Easy
2. What is the first generation assessment?
Learning Objective: 10-3: Examine the important items on a classification scale, and discuss why you think they are important.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Assessment and Classification in Community Corrections
Difficulty Level: Easy
3. What is a current detainer?
Learning Objective: 10-3: Examine the important items on a classification scale, and discuss why you think they are important.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: The National Institute of Corrections Custody Classification Model
Difficulty Level: Easy
4. What five groups are established by the AIMS model?
Learning Objective: 10-3: Examine the important items on a classification scale, and discuss why you think they are important.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Adult Internal Management System (AIMS)
Difficulty Level: Easy
5. What is the basic purpose of the AIMS model?
Learning Objective: 10-3: Examine the important items on a classification scale, and discuss why you think they are important.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Adult Internal Management System (AIMS)
Difficulty Level: Easy
6. What is classification?
Learning Objective: 10-1: Evaluate the importance of assessment and classification in identifying custody status and offender risk and needs.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: What is Classification and Assessment?
Difficulty Level: Easy
7. What are the two types of prediction errors?
Learning Objective: 10-1: Evaluate the importance of assessment and classification in identifying custody status and offender risk and needs.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Predicting Behavior
Difficulty Level: Easy
8. What is an override?
Learning Objective: 10-3: Examine the important items on a classification scale, and discuss why you think they are important.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Classification Today
Difficulty Level: Easy
9. What is a custodial level?
Learning Objective: 10-3: Examine the important items on a classification scale, and discuss why you think they are important.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: The National Institute of Corrections Custody Classification Model
Difficulty Level: Easy
10. What is a furlough?
Learning Objective: 10-3: Examine the important items on a classification scale, and discuss why you think they are important.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: The National Institute of Corrections Custody Classification Model
Difficulty Level: Easy
Essay
1. Why is classification considered the most involved aspect of inmate supervision?
Learning Objective: 10-3: Examine the important items on a classification scale, and discuss why you think they are important.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Classification Today
Difficulty Level: Easy
2. What did the complaint in Morris v. Travisono (1970) address?
Learning Objective: 10-2: Describe the history of offender classification and how it has evolved.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Early Attempts at Classification
Difficulty Level: Easy
3. Identify and discuss the core intake functions?
Learning Objective: 10-3: Examine the important items on a classification scale, and discuss why you think they are important.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Classification Today
Difficulty Level: Medium
4. Explain the “wait and see” strategy?
Learning Objective: 10-2: Describe the history of offender classification and how it has evolved.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Early Attempts at Classification
Difficulty Level: Medium
5. What does the factor analysis of the PCL-R reveal?
Learning Objective: 10-3: Examine the important items on a classification scale, and discuss why you think they are important.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Psychopathy Checklist–Revised
Difficulty Level: Medium
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