Chapter 8: Classification and Custody Levels

Test Bank

Multiple Choice

1. Who is well-known for the development of the mark system on Norfolk Island, which is one of the earliest classification systems in correctional history?

a. William Penn

b. James Q. Wilson

c. John Howard

d. Alexander Maconochie

Learning Objective: 8.1: Discuss the history and development of classification processes in corrections.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: History of Classification

Difficulty Level: Easy

2. Who directs the housing unit activities and is responsible for the unit’s operation and quality control of all correspondence and programs.

a. unit manager

b. crisis manager

c. correctional officer

d. unit officer

Learning Objective: 8.2: Identify the legal rationale for classifications. | 8.6 Discuss how classification processes are central to prison service operations.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Inmate Needs, Services, and Housing and the Classification Team

Difficulty Level: Easy

3. The first stage of this classification system placed the convict in segregated confinement with work and training being provided to the offender.

a. Irish penal system

b. Mark system

c. Elmira reformatory system

d. English penal system

Learning Objective: 8.1: Discuss the history and development of classification processes in corrections.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: History of Classification

Difficulty Level: Easy

4. Which goal of classification is the first and most paramount goal of the field of corrections?

a. control inmate behavior

b. inmate safety

c. public safety

d. planning and controlling accountability

Learning Objective: 8.5: Describe the different categories of special housing assignments.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Protect the Public

Difficulty Level: Medium

5. What is the primary reason that an offender is placed in administrative segregation?

a. pressure for sexual favors from other inmates

b. gang membership

c. being in debt to other inmates

d. having been previously employed in law enforcement

Learning Objective: 8.5: Describe the different categories of special housing assignments.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Administrative Segregation

Difficulty Level: Medium

6. The initial screening for services usually includes a review of the PSI report and, in the federal system, a scan of the information in the ______ system.

a. CAD

b. SENTRY

c. SENTENCE

d. AUC

Learning Objective: 8.6: Discuss how classification processes are central to prison service operations.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Inmate Needs, Services, and Housing and the Classification Team

Difficulty Level: Medium

7. ______ is a type of classification that is nonpunitive in nature but requires the separation of inmates from the general population due to the threat that they may pose to themselves, staff, other inmates, or institutional order.

a. Protective custody

b. Administration custody

c. Administrative segregation

d. Maximum segregation

Learning Objective: 8.5: Describe the different categories of special housing assignments. | 8.6 Discuss how classification processes are central to prison service operations.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Administrative Segregation

Difficulty Level: Medium

8. Who usually conducts the initial classification of an offender sentenced to prison?

a. judge

b. correctional officer

c. unit manager

d. community supervision staff

Learning Objective: 8.2: Identify the legal rationale for classifications. | 8.3 State the main goals of classification systems.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Initial Security Classification

Difficulty Level: Easy

9. The ______ develops and implements programs within the unit to meet the individual needs of the inmates confined.

a. case manager

b. correctional counselor

c. education advisor

d. unit manager

Learning Objective: 8.3: State the main goals of classification systems.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Inmate Needs, Services, and Housing and the Classification Team

Difficulty Level: Easy

10. Which type of classification is nonpunitive in nature?

a. Protective custody

b. Supermax

c. Administrative segregation

d. Specialized offender housing

Learning Objective: 8.4: Identify different custody levels and the methods used for housing assignments and reclassification.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Administrative Segregation

Difficulty Level: Easy

11. Providing rewards or punishments for actions that are committed meets which classification goal?

a. controlling inmates’ behavior

b. protecting the public

c. planning and accountability

d. protecting inmates

Learning Objective: 8.4: Identify different custody levels and the methods used for housing assignments and reclassification.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Control Inmate Behavior

Difficulty Level: Medium

12. This member of the unit classification team is generally responsible for the performance of diagnostic, therapeutic, research, educational, and evaluative functions relating to psychological services.

a. educational adviser

b. correctional counselor

c. case manager

d. psychology services representative

Learning Objective: 8.3: State the main goals of classification systems.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Inmate Needs, Services, and Housing and the Classification Team

Difficulty Level: Easy

13. In the past, subjective forms of classification, based on the ______ opinions of professionals, were largely utilized.

a. clinical

b. medical

c. theoretical

d. healing

Learning Objective: 8.3: State the main goals of classification systems.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Modern Classification Systems

Difficulty Level: Easy

14. Which Supreme Court case found that the totality of prison conditions should not become so deplorable as to violate constitutional expectations for inmates?

a. Palmigiano v. Garrahy (1977)

b. Morris v. Travisono (1970)

c. Holt v. Sarver (1969)

d. Farmer v. Brennan (1994)

Learning Objective: 8.2: Identify the legal rationale for classifications.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Rationale for Classification

Difficulty Level: Easy

15. Which case resulted in a detailed set of procedures for classifying prisoners who were overseen by the federal court system?

a. Holt v. Sarver (1969)

b. Morris v. Travisono (1970)

c. Palmigiano v. Garrahy (1977)

d. Turner v. Safley (1987)

Learning Objective: 8.2: Identify the legal rationale for classifications.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Rationale for Classification

Difficulty Level: Easy

16. What did the Morris Rules establish?

a. The totality of prison conditions should not become so deplorable as to violate constitutional expectations for inmates.

b. the minimal procedural safeguards to which inmates would be entitled

c. standardized state classification processes

d. improved the classification of inmates according to custody, work, and programming needs

Learning Objective: 8.2: Identify the legal rationale for classifications.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Rationale for Classification

Difficulty Level: Easy

17. In the past decade, prison systems have experienced increased pressures to improve their system of classifying inmates according to three areas. Which area is not one of the three?

a. programming needs

b. work needs

c. custody needs

d. visitation needs

Learning Objective: 8.4: Identify different custody levels and the methods used for housing assignments and reclassification.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Modern Classification Systems

Difficulty Level: Medium

18. More than ______ of all state inmates and more than 73% of all federal inmates reported past drug use, with most of that past drug use occurring during the year prior to their offense.

a. 83%

b. 95%

c. 89%

d. 10%

Learning Objective: 8.4: Identify different custody levels and the methods used for housing assignments and reclassification. | 8.5 Describe the different categories of special housing assignments.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Substance Abuse Issues, Assessment, and Classification

Difficulty Level: Easy

19. Which of the following is not a goal of classification?

a. protect the public from future victimization by offenders who are already in the correctional system

b. control inmates’ behavior, which includes their ability to trade in contraband, engage in prison gang activities, or harm themselves (as with suicidal inmates)

c. protect sexual offenders from juvenile offender

d. protect inmates from one another by separating likely predators from less serious inmates

Learning Objective: 8.3: State the main goals of classification systems.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Answer Location: The Goals of Classification Systems

Difficulty Level: Hard

20. Sexual harassment from other inmates is a reason why an inmate may be placed into ______.

a. minimum-security facility

b. protective custody

c. supermax-security facility

d. administrative segregation

Learning Objective: 8.4: Identify different custody levels and the methods used for housing assignments and reclassification. | 8.5 Describe the different categories of special housing assignments.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Answer Location: Protective Custody

Difficulty Level: Easy

21. As correctional facilities become more crowded, ______ decisions play a more significant role.

a. external classification

b. internal classification

c. reclassification

d. initial classification

Learning Objective: 8.3: State the main goals of classification systems.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Modern Classification Systems

Difficulty Level: Easy

22. Which commission called for improved classification systems as a means of creating better treatment programs to reshape inmate behavior?

a. Brockway

b. Wickersham

c. Elmira

d. Sarver

Learning Objective: 8.3: State the main goals of classification systems.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Knowledge | Comprehension

Answer Location: History of Classification

Difficulty Level: Easy

23. Prisons that use effective ______ and classification and base their security decisions on the outcomes of these processes will likely be effective in providing reasonable protection of inmates in their custody.

a. screening

b. sensing

c. feeling

d. observing

Learning Objective: 8.4: Identify different custody levels and the methods used for housing assignments and reclassification.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Protect Inmates

Difficulty Level: Easy

24. Effective security and custody placement can reduce all of the following except ______.

a. fear

b. violence

c. escapes

d. staff turnover

Learning Objective: 8.5: Describe the different categories of special housing assignments.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Control Inmate Behavior

Difficulty Level: Easy

25. Which of the following is not an institution’s level of security and staff supervision factors for classification?

a. perimeter barriers

b. internal security

c. towers

d. dungeons

Learning Objective: 8.6: Discuss how classification processes are central to prison service operations.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Initial Security Classification

Difficulty Level: Easy

26. ______ type of classification is nonpunitive in nature.

a. Protective custody

b. Supermax

c. Administrative segregation

d. Specialized offender housing

Learning Objective: 8.4: Identify different custody levels and the methods used for housing assignments and reclassification.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Administrative Segregation

Difficulty Level: Easy

27. ______ from other inmates is a reason why an inmate may be placed into protective custody.

a. Gang involvement

b. Sexual harassment

c. Convicted murderer

d. Convicted thief

Learning Objective: 8.4: Identify different custody levels and the methods used for housing assignments and reclassification. | 8.5 Describe the different categories of special housing assignments.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Answer Location: Protective Custody

Difficulty Level: Easy

28. ______ case resulted in a detailed set of procedures for classifying prisoners who were overseen by the federal court system.

a. Holt v. Sarver (1969)

b. Morris v. Travisono (1970)

c. Palmigiano v. Garrahy (1977)

d. Turner v. Safley (1987)

Learning Objective: 8.2: Identify the legal rationale for classifications.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Rationale for Classification

Difficulty Level: Easy

29. More than 83% of all state inmates and more than ______ of all federal inmates reported past drug use, with most of that past drug use occurring during the year prior to their offense.

a. 73%

b. 95%

c. 89%

d. 10%

Learning Objective: 8.4: Identify different custody levels and the methods used for housing assignments and reclassification. | 8.5 Describe the different categories of special housing assignments.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Substance Abuse Issues, Assessment, and Classification

Difficulty Level: Easy

30. The ______ conducts the initial classification of an offender sentenced to prison.

a. judge

b. correctional officer

c. unit manager

d. community supervision staff

Learning Objective: 8.2: Identify the legal rationale for classifications. | 8.3 State the main goals of classification systems.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Initial Security Classification

Difficulty Level: Easy

31. The initial screening for services usually includes a review of the ______ report and, in the federal system, a scan of the information in the CAD system.

a. PPP

b. PSI

c. RSI

d. AUC

Learning Objective: 8.6: Discuss how classification processes are central to prison service operations.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Inmate Needs, Services, and Housing and the Classification Team

Difficulty Level: Medium

32. Morris v. Travisono resulted in a detailed set of procedures for ______ prisoners who were overseen by the federal court system.

a. transgender

b. classifying

c. gang member

d. female

Learning Objective: 8.2: Identify the legal rationale for classifications.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Rationale for Classification

Difficulty Level: Easy

33. ______ is known for the development of the mark system on Norfolk Island, which is one of the earliest classification systems in correctional history.

a. William Penn

b. James Q. Wilson

c. John Howard

d. Alexander Maconochie

Learning Objective: 8.1: Discuss the history and development of classification processes in corrections.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: History of Classification

Difficulty Level: Easy

34. ______ directs the housing unit activities and is responsible for the operation and quality control of all correspondence and programs.

a. Unit manager

b. Crisis manager

c. Correctional officer

d. Unit officer

Learning Objective: 8.2: Identify the legal rationale for classifications. | 8.6 Discuss how classification processes are central to prison service operations.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Inmate Needs, Services, and Housing and the Classification Team

Difficulty Level: Easy

35. ______ of the unit classification team is generally responsible for the performance of diagnostic, therapeutic, research, educational, and evaluative functions relating to psychological services.

a. Educational adviser

b. Correctional counselor

c. Case manager

d. Psychology services representative

Learning Objective: 8.3: State the main goals of classification systems.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Inmate Needs, Services, and Housing and the Classification Team

Difficulty Level: Easy

36. The ______ stage of this classification system placed the convict in segregated confinement with work and training being provided to the offender.

a. evaluation

b. mark

c. review

d. objective

Learning Objective: 8.1: Discuss the history and development of classification processes in corrections.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: History of Classification

Difficulty Level: Easy

37. Providing ______ or punishments for actions that are committed control inmate behavior.

a. rewards

b. sanctions

c. confinement

d. ridicule

Learning Objective: 8.4: Identify different custody levels and the methods used for housing assignments and reclassification.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Control Inmate Behavior

Difficulty Level: Medium

38. Protective custody is a type of classification which is ______ in nature.

a. punitive

b. vengeful

c. nonpunitive

d. specialized

Learning Objective: 8.4: Identify different custody levels and the methods used for housing assignments and reclassification.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Administrative segregation

Difficulty Level: Easy

True/False

1. According to the National Institute of Corrections, protective custody includes “special provisions to provide for the safety and well-being for inmates who, based on findings of fact, would be in danger in the general population.”

Learning Objective: 8.5: Describe the different categories of special housing assignments.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Protective Custody

Difficulty Level: Easy

2. The educator adviser develops and implements programs within the unit to meet the individual needs of the inmates confined.

Learning Objective: 8.3: State the main goals of classification systems.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Inmate Needs, Services, and Housing and the Classification Team

Difficulty Level: Easy

3. Offender classification is expected to totally eliminate prison violence.

Learning Objective: 8.3: State the main goals of classification systems. | 8.6 Discuss how classification processes are central to prison service operations.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Protect Inmates

Difficulty Level: Easy

4. Zebulon Brockway is best known for creating the Irish penal system.

Learning Objective: 8.1: Discuss the history and development of classification processes in corrections.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: History of Classification

Difficulty Level: Easy

5. External classification processes have to do with the placement of inmates at different facilities and/or on community supervision.

Learning Objective: 8.3: State the main goals of classification systems. | 8.4 Identify different custody levels and the methods used for housing assignments and reclassification.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Modern Classification Systems

Difficulty Level: Easy

6. Protective custody is a type of classification that is nonpunitive in nature but requires the separation of inmates from the general population due to the threat that they may pose to themselves, staff, other inmates, or institutional order.

Learning Objective: 8.5: Describe the different categories of special housing assignments. | 8.6 Discuss how classification processes are central to prison service operations.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Administrative Segregation

Difficulty Level: Medium

7. Classification processes are, in many respects, similar in concept to what William Penn had implemented where commensurate good behavior would lead to a reclassification of an inmate’s likelihood for release.

Learning Objective: 8.1: Discuss the history and development of classification processes in corrections.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Elements of All Classification Systems

Difficulty Level: Medium

8. Historically, the majority of all offenders were housed together within correctional facilities.

Learning Objective: 8.1: Discuss the history and development of classification processes in corrections.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: History of Classification

Difficulty Level: Easy

9. Classification processes play little importance in developing prison budgets.

Learning Objective: 8.2: Identify the legal rationale for classifications.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Knowledge | Comprehension

Answer Location: Provide Planning and Accountability

Difficulty Level: Easy

10. John Howard’s mark system is considered a form of determinate sentencing.

Learning Objective: 8.1: Discuss the history and development of classification processes in corrections.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Knowledge | Comprehension

Answer Location: History of Classification

Difficulty Level: Easy

11. In times past, subjective forms of classification, based on the clinical opinions of professionals, were largely utilized.

Learning Objective: 8.3: State the main goals of classification systems.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Modern Classification Systems

Difficulty Level: Easy

12. Every form of treatment program involves some sort of screening.

Learning Objective: 8.3: State the main goals of classification systems.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Screening and Placement Criteria

Difficulty Level: Easy

13. Inmates with prior convictions are significantly more likely than first-time offenders to be regular drug users.

Learning Objective: 8.6: Discuss how classification processes are central to prison service operations.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Substance Abuse Issues, Assessment, and Classification

Difficulty Level: Easy

14. The custody level of inmates refers to the type of physical barriers that are utilized to prevent their escape.

Learning Objective: 8.4: Identify different custody levels and the methods used for housing assignments and reclassification.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Security and Custody Issues

Difficulty Level: Easy

15. Due to litigation and overcrowding issues that have cropped up over the past decade, prisons have experienced increased pressure to improve their systems of classifying inmates according to custody, work, and programming needs.

Learning Objective: 8.2: Identify the legal rationale for classifications. | 8.6 Discuss how classification processes are central to prison service operations.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Modern Classification Systems

Difficulty Level: Easy

16. Differential association theory is the premise behind most classification programs that seek to separate low-risk inmates from high-risk inmates?

Learning Objective: 8.6: Discuss how classification processes are central to prison service operations.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Differential Association: Minimizing Further Associations Through Effective Classification Processes

Difficulty Level: Easy

17. Given the association between injection drug use and HIV/AIDS, detoxification also provides counseling to reduce AIDS-related risk behaviors.

Learning Objective: 8.5: Describe the different categories of special housing assignments.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Substance Abuse Issues, Assessment, and Classification

Difficulty Level: Easy

18. As correctional facilities become more crowded, internal classification decisions play a more significant role.

Learning Objective: 8.5: Describe the different categories of special housing assignments.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Modern Classification Systems

Difficulty Level: Easy

19. The case manager reports directly to the unit manager and has major responsibility for case management matters within the unit.

Learning Objective: 8.5: Describe the different categories of special housing assignments.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Inmate Needs, Services, and Housing and the Classification Team

Difficulty Level: Easy

20. More than 93% of all state inmates and more than 87% of all federal inmates reported past drug use.

Learning Objective: 8.5: Describe the different categories of special housing assignments.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Substance Abuse Issues, Assessment, and Classification

Difficulty Level: Easy

21. The case of Morris v. Travisono (1970) resulted in a detailed set of procedures for classifying inmates that was overseen by the federal court system.

Learning Objective: 8.2: Identify the legal rationale for classifications.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Rationale for Classification

Difficulty Level: Easy

22. The use of automated classification systems is now standard practice in both prisons and community-based correctional agencies.

Learning Objective: 8.3: State the main goals of classification systems.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Provide Planning and Accountability

Difficulty Level: Easy

23. Due to litigation and overcrowding issues that have cropped up over the past decade, prisons have experienced increased pressure to improve their systems of classifying inmates according to custody, work, and programming needs.

Learning Objective: 8.2: Identify the legal rationale for classifications.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Modern Classification Systems

Difficulty Level: Easy

24. The Elmira commission called for improved classification systems as a means of creating better treatment programs to reshape inmate behavior?

Learning Objective: 8.1: Discuss the history and development of classification processes in corrections.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Knowledge | Comprehension

Answer Location: History of Classification

Difficulty Level: Easy

25. The Holt v. Sarver (1969) case resulted in a detailed set of procedures for classifying prisoners who were overseen by the federal court system.

Learning Objective: 8.2: Identify the legal rationale for classifications.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Rationale for Classification

Difficulty Level: Easy

Short Answer

1. Identify the four goals of classification systems.

Learning Objective: 8.3: State the main goals of classification systems.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Classification System

Difficulty Level: Medium

2. Discuss the first actual classification system for offenders. Identify who implemented the system, the name of the system, and the specific phases of classification.

Learning Objective: 8.1: Discuss the history and development of classification processes in corrections.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: History of the Classification System

3. Discuss the importance of the Supreme Court case of Palmigiano v. Garrahy.

Learning Objective: 8.2: Identify the legal rationale for classifications.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Rationale for Classification

Difficulty Level: Medium

4. What is administrative segregation? Which inmates would be classified under administrative segregation?

Learning Objective: 8.6: Discuss how classification processes are central to prison service operations.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Administrative Segregation

Difficulty Level: Easy

5. Discuss several reasons inmates are placed in protective custody.

Learning Objective: 8.6: Discuss how classification processes are central to prison service operations.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Protective Custody

Difficulty Level: Easy

6. Who heads the classification team and what are their assigned duties?

Learning Objective: 8.4: Identify different custody levels and the methods used for housing assignments and reclassification.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Inmate Needs, Services, and Housing and the Classification Team

Difficulty Level: Medium

7. Discuss the federal court case of Morris v. Travisono (1970). How did the ruling impact correctional systems?

Learning Objective: 8.2: Identify the legal rationale for classifications.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Rationale for Classification

Difficulty Level: Medium

8. How does appropriate classification relate to treatment?

Learning Objective: 8.6: Discuss how classification processes are central to prison service operations.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Conclusion

Difficulty Level: Medium

Essay

1. Define security levels and describe the five security levels within the Bureau of Prisons (BOP).

Learning Objective: 8.6: Discuss how classification processes are central to prison service operations.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Initial Security Classification

Difficulty Level: Easy

2. Define the differential association theory. How does the theory relate to corrections, specifically, classification?

Learning Objective: 8.6: Discuss how classification processes are central to prison service operations.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Differential Association: Minimizing Further Associations Through Effective Classification Processes

Difficulty Level: Medium

3. Discuss the GRAD program and the criteria needed to enter the program.

Learning Objective: 8.6: Discuss how classification processes are central to prison service operations.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Leaving Gang Life and Administrative Segregation Behind in Texas

Difficulty Level: Medium

4. What are the goals of the classification system? What do these goals hinge on?

Learning Objective: 8.3: State the main goals of classification systems.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: The Goals of Classification Systems

Difficulty Level: Medium