Chapter 14: Correctional Administration

Test Bank

Multiple Choice

1. A federal prison in Texas is within which Federal Bureau of Prisons regional region?

a. Western Region

b. South Central Region

c. Mid-Atlantic Region

d. Southeast Region

Learning Objective: 14.1: Discuss the history and organization of the Federal Bureau of Prisons.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Regional Offices and Jurisdictions

Difficulty Level: Easy

2. The ______ Division is responsible for the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) financial and facility management. This division is responsible for budget development and execution, finance, procurement and property, and the inmate trust fund program.

a. Central

b. Administration

c. Headquarter

d. Executive

Learning Objective: 14.1: Discuss the history and organization of the Federal Bureau of Prisons.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Central Office

Difficulty Level: Easy

3. Which Federal Bureau of Prisons division ensures that national policies and procedures are in place that provide a safe, secure institutional environment for inmates and staff?

a. The Program Review Division

b. The Information, Policy, and Public Affairs Division

c. The Correctional Programs Division

d. The Health Services Division

Learning Objective: 14.1: Discuss the history and organization of the Federal Bureau of Prisons.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Central Office

Difficulty Level: Easy

4. The most common type of local correction system is a ______.

a. private institution

b. city-based correctional system

c. state-run correctional system

d. county-based correctional system

Learning Objective: 14.2: Discuss common organizational features of state and local prison systems.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: At the Local Level

Difficulty Level: Easy

5. Which of the following is not a general level of prison management?

a. system-wide administration

b. regional-level administration

c. unit-level administration

d. facility-wide administration

Learning Objective: 14.1: Discuss the history and organization of the Federal Bureau of Prisons. | 14.2 Discuss common organizational features of state and local prison systems.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Levels of Prison Management

Difficulty Level: Medium

6. The ______ Division coordinates the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) personnel matters, including pay and leave administration, incentive awards, retirement, work-life programs, background investigations, adverse and disciplinary actions, and performance evaluations.

a. Executive Management

b. Human Resource Management

c. Occupational Review Board

d. Examination Management

Learning Objective: 14.1: Discuss the history and organization of the Federal Bureau of Prisons.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Central Office

Difficulty Level: Easy

7. Who is the head administrator in a prison?

a. major

b. warden

c. captain

d. lieutenant

Learning Objective: 14.1: Discuss the history and organization of the Federal Bureau of Prisons.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Institutional-Level Administrators

Difficulty Level: Easy

8. The ______ style of management is when a supervisor seeks to anticipate and correct problems before they develop.

a. holding pattern method

b. bureaucratic method

c. participative method

d. proactive method

Learning Objective: 14.3: Describe five common styles of management in prisons.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Proactive Correctional Management

Difficulty Level: Easy

9. The prison ______ is grounded in the organization of the prison subculture and is an informal network that consists of information passed through the personal communications of employees to employees, inmates to inmates, employees to inmates, and inmates to employees.

a. grapevine

b. orchard

c. harvest

d. farm

Learning Objective: 14.3: Describe five common styles of management in prisons.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: The Participative Method of Management

Difficulty Level: Easy

10. Broad managerial documents that include goals and objectives of the agency, and state the general direction in which an agency intends to operate are known as ______.

a. unit plans

b. strategic plans

c. tactical plans

d. bureaucratic plans

Learning Objective: 14.3: Describe five common styles of management in prisons.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: System-Wide Administrators

Difficulty Level: Easy

11. This style of management used a highly regimented schedule of activities that included the use of a lockstep marching model of movement.

a. holding pattern method

b. authoritarian method

c. participative method

d. reactive method

Learning Objective: 14.3: Describe five common styles of management in prisons.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Back to the Future in Prison Management

Difficulty Level: Easy

12. This model of management creates a formal organizational system that operates in a system that is not dependent upon the specific personnel or personalities assigned within it.

a. proactive styles of management

b. authoritarian forms of management

c. bureaucratic forms of management

d. participative method of management

Learning Objective: 14.3: Describe five common styles of management in prisons.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Bureaucratic Forms of Management

Difficulty Level: Easy

13. This style of management includes opinions and feedback offered from both inmates and staff when making decisions regarding the operations and governance of the prison facility.

a. participative method

b. centralized method

c. holding pattern method

d. proactive method

Learning Objective: 14.3: Describe five common styles of management in prisons.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: The Participative Method of Management

Difficulty Level: Easy

14. This style of management tends to be reflective of bureaucratic models of prison management.

a. participative method

b. holding pattern method

c. centralized method

d. decentralized method

Learning Objective: 14.3: Describe five common styles of management in prisons.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Centralized Versus Decentralized Management

Difficulty Level: Easy

15. The term ______ refers to persons who have been vested with an official title by the agency and who tend to be focusing on the process of completing functions of operations within the prison facility.

a. management

b. leadership

c. administrators

d. response team

Learning Objective: 14.3: Describe five common styles of management in prisons.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Management Versus Leadership

Difficulty Level: Easy

16. Who heads the National Institute of Corrections (NIC)?

a. U.S. Attorney General

b. President of the United States

c. U.S. Intelligence Director

d. Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation

Learning Objective: 14.2: Discuss common organizational features of state and local prison systems.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Central Office

Difficulty Level: Easy

17. The National Advisory Commission on Criminal Justice Standards and Goals recommendation to improve the education and training of correctional officers is an example of ______.

a. professionalization of corrections

b. diversifying corrections

c. improving correctional cultural competence

d. enforcement of corrections

Learning Objective: 14.2: Discuss common organizational features of state and local prison systems.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Professionalization of Corrections

Difficulty Level: Medium

18. A female officer who cannot get promoted due to unofficial barriers to promotion is experiencing the ______.

a. fire pole

b. glass ceiling

c. straw stairs

d. trap door

Learning Objective: 14.6: Discuss the benefits and challenges faced by women in correctional management.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Challenges to Upward Mobility

Difficulty Level: Easy

19. ______ describes how adept a person is at noticing and responding to the cues and information that are exhibited by others with whom he or she interacts.

a. Academic intelligence

b. Experiential intelligence

c. Practical intelligence

d. Emotional intelligence

Learning Objective: 14.7: Describe the importance of racial and cultural diversity and professionalism in the corrections workforce.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Experience, Intelligence, and Emotional Intelligence in Leadership

Difficulty Level: Easy

20. Members of these response teams are the most highly trained and skilled emergency response security staff.

a. disturbance control teams

b. special operations response teams

c. armed disturbance control teams

d. mediation control teams

Learning Objective: 14.7: Describe the importance of racial and cultural diversity and professionalism in the corrections workforce.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Gauging the Climate

Difficulty Level: Easy

21. ______ planning consists of ground-level planning that is narrow in focus, usually being structured around the resolution of a particular issue or something that confronts the agency on a short-term basis.

a. Strategic

b. Tactical

c. Calculated

d. Considered

Learning Objective: 14.3: Describe five common styles of management in prisons. | 14.4 Compare key differences and similarities between managers and leaders.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Centralized Versus Decentralized Management

Difficulty Level: Easy

22. The sphere of control that supervisors have over employees that they encounter and interact with on a routine basis is known as ______.

a. span of control

b. span of influence

c. strategic plans

d. tactical planning

Learning Objective: 14.3: Describe five common styles of management in prisons.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Span of Control and/or Influence

Difficulty Level: Easy

23. Comprehensive gang intelligence in prisons requires prison administrators to do four things. Which is not one of them?

a. develop strong nationwide ties to gang units in police departments

b. participate in national correctional conferences on gang intelligence

c. maintain good relationship with fellow management persons in other agencies

d. maintain autonomy from local police agencies and the state’s attorney’s office

Learning Objective: 14.4: Compare key differences and similarities between managers and leaders.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Gang Management Data

Difficulty Level: Easy

24. The key defining feature of the authoritarian model of prison management is strict control over ______ and inmates with communication that flows in a top-to-bottom process.

a. public officials

b. society

c. staff

d. all of these

Learning Objective: 14.3: Describe five common styles of management in prisons. | 14.4 Compare key differences and similarities between managers and leaders.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Authoritarian Forms of Management

Difficulty Level: Easy

25. ______ occurs when the authority and responsibility of management personnel are divided and distributed among various levels of the supervisory chain so that each level of supervision may make decisions that correspond to the problems that confront it at its particular level of management.

a. Centralized management

b. Decentralized management

c. Focused management

d. Internal management

Learning Objective: 14.3: Describe five common styles of management in prisons. | 14.4 Compare key differences and similarities between managers and leaders.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: ground-level planning

Difficulty Level: Easy

26. The ideal situation is to have a ______ who is both intelligent and experienced.

a. supervisor

b. manager

c. leader

d. follower

Learning Objective: 14.4: Compare key differences and similarities between managers and leaders. | 14.5 Identify the characteristics of an effective correctional leader.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Experience, Intelligence, and Emotional Intelligence in Leadership

Difficulty Level: Easy

27. ______ planning involves ground-level planning that is narrow in focus and structured around the short-term resolution of particular issues.

a. Emergency

b. Tactical

c. Disaster

d. Homeland security

Learning Objective: 14.5: Identify the characteristics of an effective correctional leader.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Centralized Versus Decentralized Management

Difficulty Level: Easy

28. Rogues and ______ are employees who tend to act as if they are independent of the broader institution as if they are the law rather than persons charged with enforcing the laws of the institution.

a. mavericks

b. rotten apples

c. nonconformists

d. disgruntled

Learning Objective: 14.3: Describe five common styles of management in prisons. | 14.5 Identify the characteristics of an effective correctional leader.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Leadership and the Custodial Staff (What Gets Respect)

Difficulty Level: Easy

29. The growing number of institutions in most state prison systems has enhanced the trend toward ______ in corrections.

a. vocationalism

b. vigilantism

c. education

d. professionalization

Learning Objective: 14.5: Identify the characteristics of an effective correctional leader.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Professionalization of Correctional Officers and the Convict Code

Difficulty Level: Easy

30. It is advisable that correctional agencies continue to recruit and promote more ______ representation within the management circles.

a. female

b. male

c. transgendered

d. Hispanic

Learning Objective: 14.6: Discuss the benefits and challenges faced by women in correctional management.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Women in Correctional Management

Difficulty Level: Easy

31. ______ of management tends to be reflective of bureaucratic models of prison management.

a. Participative method

b. Holding pattern method

c. Centralized method

d. Decentralized method

Learning Objective: 14.3: Describe five common styles of management in prisons.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Centralized Versus Decentralized Management

Difficulty Level: Easy

32. The Administration Division is responsible for the ______ financial and facility management. This division is responsible for budget development and execution, finance, procurement and property, and the inmate trust fund program.

a. Department of Defense’s (DOD)

b. Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS)

c. Federal Bureau of Investigation’s (FBI)

d. Federal Bureau of Prisons’s (BOP)

Learning Objective: 14.1: Discuss the history and organization of the Federal Bureau of Prisons.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Central Office

Difficulty Level: Easy

33. Which type of planning consists of ground-level planning that is narrow in focus, usually being structured around the resolution of a particular issue or something that confronts the agency on a short-term basis?

a. strategic

b. tactical

c. calculated

d. considered

Learning Objective: 14.3: Describe five common styles of management in prisons. | 14.4 Compare key differences and similarities between managers and leaders.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Centralized Versus Decentralized Management

Difficulty Level: Easy

34. ______ and mavericks are employees who tend to act as if they are independent of the broader institution as if they are the law rather than persons charged with enforcing the laws of the institution.

a. Rouges

b. Rotten apples

c. Nonconformists

d. Disgruntled

Learning Objective: 14.3: Describe five common styles of management in prisons. | 14.5 Identify the characteristics of an effective correctional leader.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Leadership and the Custodial Staff (What Gets Respect)

Difficulty Level: Easy

35. Members of ______ are the most highly trained and skilled emergency response security staff.

a. disturbance control teams

b. special operations response teams

c. armed disturbance control teams

d. mediation control teams

Learning Objective: 14.7: Describe the importance of racial and cultural diversity and professionalism in the corrections workforce.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Gauging the Climate

Difficulty Level: Easy

36. ______ management is the intervention used, the management of that intervention, the containment of the emergency, and the successful resolution of the emergency.

a. Quick

b. Rapid

c. Emergency

d. Proper

Learning Objective: 14.8: Identify specific issues involved with emergency management in the corrections system.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Emergency Management

Difficulty Level: Easy

37. The Correctional Programs Division within the ______ ensures that national policies and procedures are in place that provide a safe, secure institutional environment for inmates and staff.

a. Federal Bureau of Prisons

b. State Prisons

c. City Jails

d. Federal Bureau of Investigations

Learning Objective: 14.1: Discuss the history and organization of the Federal Bureau of Prisons.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Central Office

Difficulty Level: Easy

38. A female officer who cannot get promoted due to unofficial barriers to ______ is experiencing the glass ceiling.

a. resigning

b. demoting

c. promotion

d. firing

Learning Objective: 14.6: Discuss the benefits and challenges faced by women in correctional management.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Challenges to Upward Mobility

Difficulty Level: Easy

39. All of the following are a general level of prison management except ______.

a. system-wide administration

b. regional-level administration

c. unit-level administration

d. facility-wide administration

Learning Objective: 14.1: Discuss the history and organization of the Federal Bureau of Prisons. | 14.2 Discuss common organizational features of state and local prison systems.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Levels of Prison Management

Difficulty Level: Medium

True/False

1. The head office of the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) is known as the Northern Office.

Learning Objective: 14.1: Discuss the history and organization of the Federal Bureau of Prisons.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Central Office

Difficulty Level: Easy

2. The Administration Division is responsible for the Federal Bureau of Prisons’s (BOP) financial and facility management. This division is responsible for budget development and execution, finance, procurement and property, and the inmate trust fund program.

Learning Objective: 14.1: Discuss the history and organization of the Federal Bureau of Prisons.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Central Office

Difficulty Level: Easy

3. Emergency preparedness and emergency response are synonymous.

Learning Objective: 14.8: Identify specific issues involved with emergency management in the corrections system.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Emergency Management

Difficulty Level: Easy

4. Emergency response is the intervention used, the management of that intervention, the containment of the emergency, and the successful resolution of the emergency.

Learning Objective: 14.8: Identify specific issues involved with emergency management in the corrections system.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Emergency Management

Difficulty Level: Easy

5. Sexual harassment is more pronounced and pervasive in prisons than in outside society.

Learning Objective: 14.6: Discuss the benefits and challenges faced by women in correctional management.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Prison System Culture

Difficulty Level: Easy

6. The Executive Review and Employment Division coordinates the Federal Bureau of Prisons’s (BOP) personnel matters, including pay and leave administration, incentive awards, retirement, work-life programs, background investigations, adverse and disciplinary actions, and performance evaluations.

Learning Objective: 14.1: Discuss the history and organization of the Federal Bureau of Prisons.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Central Office

Difficulty Level: Easy

7. When correctional staff consist of various persons from various groups and backgrounds, there is greater likelihood that biases in operations can continue undetected.

Learning Objective: 14.6: Discuss the benefits and challenges faced by women in correctional management.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Women in Correctional Management

Difficulty Level: Easy

8. Local correctional systems consist primarily of misdemeanant inmates.

Learning Objective: 14.3: Describe five common styles of management in prisons.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: At the Local Level

Difficulty Level: Easy

9. The federal government is tasked with the responsibility for the incarceration, rehabilitation, and street supervision of offenders within each state.

Learning Objective: 14.2: Discuss common organizational features of state and local prison systems.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: At the State Level

Difficulty Level: Easy

10. Regional administrators are usually found among systems that have numerous facilities.

Learning Objective: 14.2: Discuss common organizational features of state and local prison systems.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Regional Administrators

Difficulty Level: Easy

11. The authoritarian method style of management used a highly regimented schedule of activities that included the use of a lockstep marching model of movement.

Learning Objective: 14.3: Describe five common styles of management in prisons.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Authoritarian Forms of Management

Difficulty Level: Easy

12. The director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) heads the National Institute of Corrections (NIC).

Learning Objective: 14.2: Discuss common organizational features of state and local prison systems.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Central Office

Difficulty Level: Easy

13. Ignoring the day-to-day concerns of most of their staff will allow correctional leaders to more easily develop a rapport with employees.

Learning Objective: 14.4: Compare key differences and similarities between managers and leaders.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Leadership and Custodial Staff (What Gets Respected)

Difficulty Level: Easy

14. Bureaucratic forms of management tend to produce holding pattern management within the institution.

Learning Objective: 14.4: Compare key differences and similarities between managers and leaders.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Bureaucratic Forms of Management

Difficulty Level: Easy

15. In participative method institutions, all major decisions are made by one person or a very small group of persons.

Learning Objective: 14.4: Compare key differences and similarities between managers and leaders.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Authoritarian Forms of Management

Difficulty Level: Easy

16. The head administrator of a prison is the warden. Below the warden is usually the assistant warden, followed by security ranks that include majors, captains, lieutenants, and sergeants.

Learning Objective: 14.4: Compare key differences and similarities between managers and leaders.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Institutional-Level Administrators

Difficulty Level: Easy

17. The span of control is the extended impact that a supervisor has upon employee behavior.

Learning Objective: 14.4: Compare key differences and similarities between managers and leaders.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Span of Control and/or Influence

Difficulty Level: Easy

18. Prior to the 1980s, prisons tended to be in rural regions and to hire staff from within the local area.

Learning Objective: 14.7: Describe the importance of racial and cultural diversity and professionalism in the corrections workforce.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Racial and Cultural Diversity

Difficulty Level: Easy

19. A female officer who cannot get promoted due to unofficial barriers to promotion is experiencing the fire pole.

Learning Objective: 14.6: Discuss the benefits and challenges faced by women in correctional management.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Challenges to Upward Mobility

Difficulty Level: Easy

20. The sphere of control that supervisors have over employees that they encounter and interact with on a routine basis is known as tactical planning.

Learning Objective: 14.3: Describe five common styles of management in prisons.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Span of Control and/or Influence

Difficulty Level: Easy

21. Broad managerial documents that include goals and objectives of the agency, and state the general direction in which an agency intends to operate are known as unit plans.

Learning Objective: 14.3: Describe five common styles of management in prisons.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: System-Wide Administrators

Difficulty Level: Easy

22. The job of the prison warden is even more demanding when one considers that modern corrections now has expectations that inmates will be rehabilitated and that programs will be offered toward that purpose.

Learning Objective: 14.3: Describe five common styles of management in prisons.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Institutional-Level Administrators

Difficulty Level: Easy

23. Centralized management occurs when the authority and responsibility of management personnel are divided and distributed among various levels of the supervisory chain so that each level of supervision may make decisions that correspond to the problems that confront it at its particular level of management.

Learning Objective: 14.3: Describe five common styles of management in prisons. | 14.4 Compare key differences and similarities between managers and leaders.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Centralized Versus Decentralized Management

Difficulty Level: Easy

24. Leadership entails skills and talents that motivate and influence persons toward a common goal or idea.

Learning Objective: 14.3: Describe five common styles of management in prisons. | 14.4 Compare key differences and similarities between managers and leaders.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Management Versus Leadership

Difficulty Level: Easy

25. Emotional intelligence describes how adept a person is at noticing and responding to the emotional cues and information exhibited by others with whom he or she interacts. Emotional intelligence is found to be especially useful in jobs that require a high degree of social interaction.

Learning Objective: 14.3: Describe five common styles of management in prisons. | 14.4 Compare key differences and similarities between managers and leaders.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Experience, Intelligence, and Emotional Intelligence in Leadership

Difficulty Level: Easy

Short Answer

1. What is the difference between emergency management and emergency preparedness?

Learning Objective: 14.8: Identify specific issues involved with emergency management in the corrections system.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Emergency Management

Difficulty Level: Easy

2. Explain the different styles of management when dealing with issues or problems within the correctional system.

Learning Objective: 14.8: Identify specific issues involved with emergency management in the corrections system.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Proactive Correctional Management

Difficulty Level: Easy

3. Explain the job position of a prison warden.

Learning Objective: 14.4: Compare key differences and similarities between managers and leaders.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Job Duties of a Warden

Difficulty Level: Easy

4. Which type of correctional style do female correctional officers tend to adopt? Why?

Learning Objective: 14.6: Discuss the benefits and challenges faced by women in correctional management.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Women in Correctional Management

Difficulty Level: Medium

5. Discuss the concept of the “glass ceiling” as it relates to female correctional staff.

Learning Objective: 14.6: Discuss the benefits and challenges faced by women in correctional management.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Women in Correctional Management

Difficulty Level: Medium

6. How should technological devices, specifically involving use of force be implemented into corrections?

Learning Objective: 14.8: Identify specific issues involved with emergency management in the corrections system.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Strategic Planning Process in Determining the Acquisition of Technology and Equipment for Facility Security Purposes

Difficulty Level: Medium

7. What is emotional intelligence and why is it at the heart of corrections?

Learning Objective: 14.4: Compare key differences and similarities between managers and leaders.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Experience, Intelligence, and Emotional Intelligence in Leadership

Difficulty Level: Medium

8. Define and discuss the purpose of emergency responses and management in corrections.

Learning Objective: 14.4: Compare key differences and similarities between managers and leaders.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Emergency Management

Difficulty Level: Medium

Essay

1. Describe the eight service divisions of the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP).

Learning Objective: 14.1: Discuss the history and organization of the Federal Bureau of Prisons. | 14.2 Discuss common organizational features of state and local prison systems.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Central Office

Difficulty Level: Hard

2. Explain the role of response teams, characteristics that they should have, and the different levels of response required, depending on the type of emergency or crisis that occurs within the correctional facility.

Learning Objective: 14.8: Identify specific issues involved with emergency management in the corrections system.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Gauging the Climate

Difficulty Level: Medium

3. Identify and briefly describe the eight divisions of the Federal Bureau of Prisons.

Learning Objective: 14.3: Describe five common styles of management in prisons.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Central Office

Difficulty Level: Medium