Chapter 12 Test Bank Answers Community Corrections

Chapter 12: Community Corrections

Test Bank

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 12 – Question 1

1) Which term best describes when criminal justice programs pull more clients into the system than would otherwise be involved?

a. Net-widening

b. Inclusiveness

c. Community corrections

d. recidivism

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 12 – Question 2

2) Which is an assumption about the benefits of using community resources to address the problems of crime?

a. The community has resources that are unavailable in prison

b. The state spends less money on offenders in community corrections programs than it does incarcerating them

c. The prison’s total control doesn’t prepare inmates to take responsibility for their actions

d. All of the above

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 12 – Question 3

3) Which function does not define the occupation of the probation officer?

a. Supervision

b. Service

c. Investigation

d. Security

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 12 – Question 4

4) The probation officer prepares this report to assist a judge in sentencing.

a. Pre-trial investigation

b. Post-sentence investigation

c. Pre-sentence investigation

d. Permanent record

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 12 – Question 5

5) When collecting information about a case, what does the probation officer use?

a. Legal history of the incident and the offender’s academic history

b. Legal history of the incident and the offender’s social history

c. Legal history of the incident and the offender’s credit rating

d. Legal history of the incident and the offender’s permanent school record

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 12 – Question 6

6) Which best describes probation supervision?

a. A form of rehabilitation and surveillance

b. A form of punishment and incarceration

c. A form of punishment and retribution

d. A form of punishment and surveillance

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 12 – Question 7

7) Probation officers use this to determine the level of risk for offenders,.

a. Conversation with the offender

b. Pre-sentence investigation

c. Risk-assessment instrument

d. All of the above

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 12 – Question 8

8) Which is a goal of the criminal justice system?

a. Incapacitation

b. Retribution

c. Rehabilitation

d. All of the above

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 12 – Question 9

9) This form of supervision requires frequent meetings between the client and probation officer.

a. Regular-supervision probation

b. Light-supervision probation

c. Intensive-supervision probation

d. Medium-supervision probation

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 12 – Question 10

10) In this case, the Supreme Court set forth that felony defendants must be allowed to have an attorney during hearings when probation may be revoked or a deferred sentence imposed.

a. Morrissey v. Brewer

b. Mempa v. Rhay

c. Ford v. Wainwright

d. Tennessee v. Garner

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 12 – Question 11

11) Which is an impediment to the work of probation officers?

a. Sparse resources

b. Uncooperative offenders

c. High caseloads

d. All of the above

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 12 – Question 12

12) The United States has a bifurcated court process. The first goal is to determine if the defendant is guilty. What is the second?

a. Sentencing the convicted offender

b. Labeling the defendant

c. Acquitting the defendant

d. All of the above

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 12 – Question 13

13) Probation is the decision of a _____, whereas parole is under the control of the _____.

a. Judge; governor

b. Judge; president

c. Governor; judge

d. Prosecutor; governor

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 12 – Question 14

14) This is continuing to break the criminal law and returning to the criminal justice system after being processed for past offenses.

a. Repeat offending

b. Net-widening

c. Retribution

d. recidivism

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 12 – Question 15

15) Which is one of the principles on which the decision to grant parole is based?

a. The rehabilitation issue

b. The limited amount of prison space

c. The public demand for retribution and punishment

d. All of the above

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 12 – Question 16

16) This is the time deducted from an inmate's prison sentence for good behavior.

a. Behavior time

b. Hard time

c. Meritorious time

d. Good time

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 12 – Question 17

17) The decision to grant parole is based on several factors. Which is not one of these?

a. Time served

b. Pre-parole plan

c. Offender interview

d. Public opinion

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 12 – Question 18

18) Some inmates can significantly reduce their sentence by earning this for completing treatment programs or educational degrees while in prison.

a. Behavior time

b. Hard time

c. Meritorious time

d. Good time

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 12 – Question 19

19) Which is not true of intensive-supervision probation?

a. ISP clients have about four times as much contact with probation officers.

b. ISP clients are more likely to be required to participate in electronic home monitoring.

c. ISP clients are more likely to be brought before the court for technical violations.

d. ISP officers’ caseloads are higher.

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 12 – Question 20

20) Which is one of the obstacles to an inmate's successful re-entry into society?

a. Prisonization

b. Judges

c. Parole boards

d. All of the above

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 12 – Question 21

21) This is a personal status that overwhelms all others.

a. Minimum status

b. Temporary status

c. Inmate status

d. Master status

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 12 – Question 22

22) This is a sentencing alternative for the judge who finds regular probation too lenient and prison too severe.

a. Parole

b. Primary sanction

c. Intermediate sanction

d. Tertiary sanction

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 12 – Question 23

23) Which is not a community corrections strategy?

a. Diversion program

b. Probation

c. parole

d. jail

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 12 – Question 24

24) Offenders can be diverted to alternative programs at several points in the criminal justice system. Which criminological theory are these programs based on?

a. Biological

b. Strain

c. Rational choice

d. labeling

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 12 – Question 25

25) Which is not a disadvantage of private probation?

a. The questionable ethics of punishment for profit

b. Lack of social-class bias

c. Low staff qualifications

d. Profit motive

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 12 - Question 26

26) States can afford to keep all offenders incarcerated indefinitely.

a. True

b. False

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 12 - Question 27

27) The origin of the world "parole" is French for "get out of jail free."

a. True

b. False

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 12 - Question 28

28) Probation instead, parole after.

a. True

b. False

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 12 - Question 29

29) Any violation of the technical conditions of probation results in revocation.

a. True

b. False

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 12 - Question 30

30) Most prison systems do not attempt to prepare the inmate for re-entry into society.

a. True

b. False

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 12 - Question 31

31) Because prisons are crowded, the court must place on probation some offenders who pose a risk to society.

a. True

b. False

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 12 - Question 32

32) At any given time, there are more probationers than inmates or parolees.

a. True

b. False

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 12 – Question 33

33) Conditions of parole are typically significantly different than those of probation.

a. True

b. False

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 12 - Question 34

34) Offenders may be diverted to alternative programs at several points in the criminal justice system.

a. True

b. False

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 12 - Question 35

35) Most adults successfully complete probation.

a. True

b. False

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 12 - Question 36

36) Probation is a sanction that the prosecutor can point to as a victory even though it requires little time or resources.

a. True

b. False

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 12 - Question 37

37) The determination of probation risk is an internal management issue for probation departments and not a legal issue in which offenders are protected by the court.

a. True

b. False

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 12 - Question 38

38) Conditions of parole are not significantly different from conditions of probation.

a. True

b. False

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 12 - Question 39

39) Diversion programs are especially unpopular for first-time offenders who have committed relatively minor offenses.

a. True

b. False

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 12 - Question 40

40) Shock probation is the practice of sentencing offenders to prison, allowing them to serve a short time, and then granting them probation without their prior knowledge.

a. True

b. False