Chapter 15: Correctional Programming and Treatment

Test Bank

Multiple Choice

1. Rehabilitation enjoyed the most popularity during which period?

a. Enlightenment

b. 1950s–1970s

c. 1980s–2000s

d. nineteenth century

Learning Objective: 15-1: Understand what rehabilitation is and why it is imperative.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: The Rise and Fall (and Rise Again) of Rehabilitation

Difficulty Level: Easy

2. The medical model views criminal behavior as the expression of a(n) ______.

a. purely genetic defect

b. unhealthy lifestyle

c. rational choice

d. moral sickness

Learning Objective: 15-1: Understand what rehabilitation is and why it is imperative.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: The Rise and Fall (and Rise Again) of Rehabilitation

Difficulty Level: Easy

3. Martinson (1974) found that ______.

a. many correctional programs do not work for a variety of reasons

b. rehabilitation holds the most promise in reducing recidivism

c. criminals are undeserving of rehabilitation programs

d. determinate sentencing is the only way to guarantee public safety

Learning Objective: 15-1: Understand what rehabilitation is and why it is imperative.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: The Rise and Fall (and Rise Again) of Rehabilitation

Difficulty Level: Easy

4. The medical model advocated a(n) ______ sentencing model.

a. determinate

b. punitive

c. indeterminate

d. tough-on-crime

Learning Objective: 15-1: Understand what rehabilitation is and why it is imperative.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: The Rise and Fall (and Rise Again) of Rehabilitation

Difficulty Level: Easy

5. A Supreme Court justice claimed, “To put people behind walls and bars and do little or nothing to change them is to win a battle but lose a war. It is wrong. It is expensive. It is stupid.” Who was it?

a. Thurgood Marshall

b. Clarence Thomas

c. Warren Burger

d. Earl Warren

Learning Objective: 15-1: Understand what rehabilitation is and why it is imperative.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: The Rise and Fall (and Rise Again) of Rehabilitation

Difficulty Level: Easy

6. According to the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse (2010), about ______ of inmates have received professional substance abuse treatment since their admission.

a. 11%

b. 22%

c. 33%

d. 44%

Learning Objective: 15-1: Understand what rehabilitation is and why it is imperative.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: The Rise and Fall (and Rise Again) of Rehabilitation

Difficulty Level: Easy

7. The rehabilitation model was influenced by the early work of ______.

a. Bentham

b. Maconochie

c. Beccaria

d. Tocqueville

Learning Objective: 15-1: Understand what rehabilitation is and why it is imperative.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: The Rise and Fall (and Rise Again) of Rehabilitation

Difficulty Level: Easy

8. Which of the following was not one of the weaknesses of correctional programs as identified by Martinson (1974)?

a. relying on nondirective methods

b. inadequately skilled staff

c. seeking to change behaviors unrelated to crime

d. inmate disinterest in correctional programming

Learning Objective: 15-1: Understand what rehabilitation is and why it is imperative.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: The Rise and Fall (and Rise Again) of Rehabilitation

Difficulty Level: Easy

9. Research consistently demonstrates that sex offenders have a recidivism rate that is ______.

a. higher than the rate for all other offender categories

b. lower than the rate for all other offender categories

c. the same as the rate for all other offender categories

d. impossible to determine

Learning Objective: 15-1: Understand what rehabilitation is and why it is imperative.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: The Rise and Fall (and Rise Again) of Rehabilitation

Difficulty Level: Easy

10. Rehabilitation is ______.

a. a place to go to solve all of one’s problems

b. a means to restore or return a person to constructive or healthy activity

c. the designation society gives to those who are in need of assistance for a mental illness

d. none of these

Learning Objective: 15-1: Understand what rehabilitation is and why it is imperative.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: The Rise and Fall (and Rise Again) of Rehabilitation

Difficulty Level: Easy

11. Mark Lipsey and Francis Cullen (2007) reviewed numerous studies of a variety of correctional intervention programs conducted from 1990 to 2006 and concluded that treatment ______.

a. is not effective

b. works moderately well

c. is extremely effective

d. cannot be assessed with the existing data

Learning Objective: 15-1: Understand what rehabilitation is and why it is imperative.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: The Shift from “Nothing Works” to “What Works?”

Difficulty Level: Easy

12. Which of the following statements most accurately reflects the relationship between an offender risk and offender needs?

a. The lower the offender’s level of need, the higher the risk of reoffending.

b. The higher the offender’s level of need, the more responsive he or she is to treatment.

c. Most offenders have the same needs, so meeting the needs of offenders as a group reduces the risk of reoffending.

d. The higher the offender’s level of need, the higher the risk of reoffending.

Learning Objective: 15-2: Know the principles of evidence-based practices.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Evidence-Based Practices

Difficulty Level: Easy

13. Which of the following is NOT a major risk factor targeted for reduced recidivism?

a. history of antisocial behavior

b. antisocial cognition

c. substance abuse

d. strong involvement in noncriminal leisure pursuits

Learning Objective: 15-2: Know the principles of evidence-based practices.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Evidence-Based Practices

Difficulty Level: Easy

14. In psychosocial assessment, risk principle refers to ______.

a. the overall rating of public safety as a function of the proportion of the population incarcerated

b. an offender’s probability of reoffending

c. a counselor’s formal and informal assessment of the level of risk an offender poses to the institution

d. the developmental stage that an offender finds him- or herself in.

Learning Objective: 15-3: Understand the risk, needs, and responsivity model of treatment.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Evidence-Based Practices

Difficulty Level: Easy

15. In psychosocial assessments, the responsivity principle means that ______.

a. counselors can only provide meaningful treatment if they are aware of the learning styles and developmental stage of offenders

b. if offenders are to respond to treatment in a favorable way, counselors must approach them in a very strict fashion to encourage continued compliance

c. offenders who engage in specific forms of crime will respond similarly to specific types of treatment

d. all of these

Learning Objective: 15-3: Understand the risk, needs, and responsivity model of treatment.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Evidence-Based Practices

Difficulty Level: Easy

16. Evidence-based treatment modalities are based on ______.

a. a theoretical construct

b. public policies

c. patient satisfaction

d. actuarial data

Learning Objective: 15-2: Know the principles of evidence-based practices.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Evidence-Based Practices

Difficulty Level: Easy

17. ______ risk factors are based on things that change (e.g., attitudes, values, behavior patterns).

a. Flexible

b. Dynamic

c. Actuarial

d. Individual

Learning Objective: 15-3: Understand the risk, needs, and responsivity model of treatment.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Evidence-Based Practices

Difficulty Level: Easy

18. ______ risk factors are based on things that cannot change (e.g., gender, age).

a. Static

b. Inflexible

c. Historic

d. Social

Learning Objective: 15-3: Understand the risk, needs, and responsivity model of treatment.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Evidence-Based Practices

Difficulty Level: Easy

19. Which of the following is NOT a component of evidence-based practices (EBP)?

a. actuarial risk assessment

b. target interventions

c. positive reinforcement

d. rehabilitation

Learning Objective: 15-2: Know the principles of evidence-based practices.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Evidence-Based Practices

Difficulty Level: Easy

20. Cognitive-behavioral therapy ______.

a. tries to solve dysfunctional cognitions, emotions, and behavior in a relatively short time through goal-oriented, systematic procedures

b. uses medication to cure abnormally functioning parts of a person’s brain

c. tries to solve dysfunctional behavior over a long period of time through goal-oriented, systematic procedures

d. tries to solve dysfunctional cognitions, emotions, and behavior in a relatively short time through medication and one-on-one therapy

Learning Objective: 15-4: Learn something about cognitive-behavioral therapy.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy

Difficulty Level: Easy

21. The work of Andrews, Bonta, and Wormith (2006) demonstrates that progress with ______ has been nothing less than revolutionary.

a. victim offender reconciliation

b. the psychology of criminal conduct

c. the desegregation of prisons

d. the treatment of racial minorities

Learning Objective: 15-4: Learn something about cognitive-behavioral therapy.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy

Difficulty Level: Easy

22. Cognitive-behavioral therapy includes concepts from ______.

a. operant psychology

b. cognitive theory

c. social learning theory

d. all of these

Learning Objective: 15-4: Learn something about cognitive-behavioral therapy.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy

Difficulty Level: Easy

23. Albert Ellis (1989) claims that the great religious leaders of the past were ______.

a. pioneers of the medical model

b. mentally ill individuals

c. cognitive-behavioral therapists

d. opponents of incarceration

Learning Objective: 15-4: Learn something about cognitive-behavioral therapy.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy

Difficulty Level: Easy

24. The first lesson of cognitive-behavioral therapy is that criminals ______.

a. have substance abuse problems

b. must be assessed for risk of offending

c. think differently than the rest of us

d. should be held accountable for their actions

Learning Objective: 15-4: Learn something about cognitive-behavioral therapy.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy

Difficulty Level: Easy

25. Compared to type I alcoholics, type II alcoholics are more likely to engage in ______.

a. early-onset drinking and become addicted more rapidly

b. late-onset drinking and become addicted slowly

c. early-onset drinking and become addicted slowly

d. late-onset drinking and become addicted more rapidly

Learning Objective: 15-1: Understand what rehabilitation is and why it is imperative.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Substance Abuse Programming

Difficulty Level: Easy

26. Pharmacological treatment can do all of the following EXCEPT ______.

a. render addicts more amenable to treatment

b. reduce cravings

c. provide an immediate form of treatment

d. stabilize brain chemistry

Learning Objective: 15-1: Understand what rehabilitation is and why it is imperative.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Substance Abuse Programming

Difficulty Level: Easy

27. ______ is both our most popular and most deadly way of drugging ourselves.

a. Alcohol

b. Tobacco

c. Opioid use

d. Marijuana

Learning Objective: 15-1: Understand what rehabilitation is and why it is imperative.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Substance Abuse Programming

Difficulty Level: Easy

28. About ______ of homicides involve a drunken offender and/or victim.

a. 60%

b. 70%

c. 80%

d. 90%

Learning Objective: 15-1: Understand what rehabilitation is and why it is imperative.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Substance Abuse Programming

Difficulty Level: Easy

29. About ______ of state inmates were regular drug users prior to their incarceration.

a. one-quarter

b. one-third

c. one-half

d. two-thirds

Learning Objective: 15-1: Understand what rehabilitation is and why it is imperative.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Substance Abuse Programming

Difficulty Level: Easy

30. ______ is the first non-narcotic, non-addictive, extended-release medication approved for the treatment of opioid dependence.

a. Vivitrol

b. Anabuse

c. Methadone

d. Suboxone

Learning Objective: 15-1: Understand what rehabilitation is and why it is imperative.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Substance Abuse Programming

Difficulty Level: Easy

31. ______ reduces cravings among alcohol/drug-abstinent addicts and reduces the pleasurable effects for those who continue to use.

a. Buspar

b. Anabuse

c. Methadone

d. Naltrexone

Learning Objective: 15-1: Understand what rehabilitation is and why it is imperative.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Substance Abuse Programming

Difficulty Level: Easy

32. Evaluations of the Delaware Multistage Program suggested that individuals who completed all three phases of the program, when compared to the control group, were ______.

a. equally likely to remain drug free

b. less likely to remain drug free

c. more likely to remain drug free

d. more likely to commit a drug-related crime

Learning Objective: 15-1: Understand what rehabilitation is and why it is imperative.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Substance Abuse Programming

Difficulty Level: Easy

33. Which of the following statements is true?

a. Pharmacological treatment can supplant traditional treatment methods for alcoholism and drug abuse.

b. Pharmacological treatment supplements traditional treatment methods for alcoholism and drug abuse.

c. There are no viable treatment options for alcoholism and drug abuse.

d. Pharmacological treatment is ineffective in reducing cravings and relapses among alcoholics.

Learning Objective: 15-1: Understand what rehabilitation is and why it is imperative.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Substance Abuse Programming

Difficulty Level: Easy

34. Addiction is ______.

a. a psychobiological illness

b. a social illness

c. a biological illness

d. not an illness

Learning Objective: 15-1: Understand what rehabilitation is and why it is imperative.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Substance Abuse Programming

Difficulty Level: Easy

35. The numbers show that illicit drug abuse ______ with criminal behavior.

a. is clearly not associated

b. has a causal association

c. is clearly strongly associated

d. is sometimes associated

Learning Objective: 15-1: Understand what rehabilitation is and why it is imperative.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Substance Abuse Programming

Difficulty Level: Easy

36. Residential substance abuse treatment communities are ______.

a. group therapy sessions used by cognitive-behavioral therapy programs

b. the locations where risk assessments take place for evidence-based practices

c. residential settings for drug and alcohol treatment that use the community spirit generated by the influence of peers and various group processes

d. community treatment centers that focus on drug and alcohol treatment

Learning Objective: 15-5: Understand the functions of therapeutic communities in correction.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Substance Abuse Programming

Difficulty Level: Easy

37. Substance-abusing female offenders who planned to live with their minor children were ______ likely to enter CREST and ______ likely to complete CREST.

a. more; more

b. less; less

c. less; more

d. more; less

Learning Objective: 15-5: Understand the functions of therapeutic communities in correction.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Substance Abuse Programming

Difficulty Level: Easy

38. How many months do residential substance abuse treatments typically last?

a. 1

b. 3

c. 6–12

d. 2–5

Learning Objective: 15-5: Understand the functions of therapeutic communities in correction.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Substance Abuse Programming

Difficulty Level: Easy

39. ______ consist of a number of techniques through which someone with problems controlling anger can learn the cause and consequences of that anger.

a. Evidence-based practices

b. Anger management programs

c. Therapeutic community techniques

d. Psychopharmacological approaches

Learning Objective: 15-1: Understand what rehabilitation is and why it is imperative.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Anger Management

Difficulty Level: Easy

40. Research suggests that anger management programs reduce violent recidivism for program completers versus control subjects by about ______.

a. 3–5%

b. 8–10%

c. 16–18%

d. 27–29%

Learning Objective: 15-1: Understand what rehabilitation is and why it is imperative.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Anger Management

Difficulty Level: Easy

41. The State of California, in 1997, mandated ______ to be used as treatment for repeat sexual offenders.

a. life sentences

b. chemical castration

c. indeterminate sentences

d. civil commitment

Learning Objective: 15-6: Know the special treatment modalities applied to sex offenders.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Sex Offenders and Their Treatment

Difficulty Level: Easy

42. How many states have sex offender registration laws?

a. 20

b. 30

c. 40

d. 50

Learning Objective: 15-6: Know the special treatment modalities applied to sex offenders.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Sex Offenders and Their Treatment

Difficulty Level: Easy

43. The biomedical approach to sex offenders involves so-called chemical castration with the synthetic hormone ______.

a. Superdrol

b. androgen

c. Depo-Provera

d. estrogen

Learning Objective: Know the special treatment modalities applied to sex offenders.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Sex Offenders and Their Treatment

Difficulty Level: Easy

44. A review of 11 meta-analyses covering 353 studies by Kim and colleagues (2016) from 1943 to 2009 found that ______ had the strongest effect in the lower recidivism of sex offenders.

a. surgical castration

b. cognitive-behavioral therapy

c. chemical castration

d. avoidance therapy

Learning Objective: 15-6: Know the special treatment modalities applied to sex offenders.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Sex Offenders and Their Treatment

Difficulty Level: Easy

45. The effective treatment of sex offenders depends on all of the following EXCEPT ______.

a. a thorough assessment

b. identification of deviant arousal patterns

c. chemical castration

d. a polygraph assessment

Learning Objective: 15-6: Know the special treatment modalities applied to sex offenders.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Sex Offenders and Their Treatment

Difficulty Level: Easy

46. Research demonstrates that mentally ill individuals are ______.

a. more likely to be offenders than victims

b. more likely to be victims than offenders

c. less likely to be convicted for a violent offense

d. more criminal than the general population

Learning Objective: 15-1: Understand what rehabilitation is and why it is imperative.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Mentally Ill Offenders

Difficulty Level: Easy

47. Which of the following explanations accounts for the overrepresentation of mentally ill populations in the correctional system?

a. mental hospital deinstitutionalization

b. the criminalization of mental illness

c. drug use combined with a greater propensity for violence

d. all of these

Learning Objective: 15-1: Understand what rehabilitation is and why it is imperative.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Mentally Ill Offenders

Difficulty Level: Easy

48. Studies around the world have found that mentally ill persons (mostly schizophrenics and manic depressives) are at least ______ times more likely to have a conviction for violent offenses than people in general.

a. 3 to 4

b. 1 to 2

c. 5 to 6

d. 8 to 9

Learning Objective: 15-1: Understand what rehabilitation is and why it is imperative.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Mentally Ill Offenders

Difficulty Level: Easy

49. Mentally ill offenders in jails and prisons are often victimized by other inmates, who call them ______ and exploit them sexually and materially.

a. punks

b. fish

c. marks

d. bugs

Learning Objective: 15-1: Understand what rehabilitation is and why it is imperative.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Mentally Ill Offenders

Difficulty Level: Easy

50. A type of therapy favored in ______ seeks to make offenders “inward looking” and is designed to get offenders to see themselves as others see them.

a. the United Kingdom

b. Saudi Arabia

c. France

d. Japan

Learning Objective: 15-1: Understand what rehabilitation is and why it is imperative.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Comparative Corrections: Offender Treatment

Difficulty Level: Easy

True/False

1. The movement from a medical model of corrections to a justice model signaled the death of rehabilitation programs.

Learning Objective: 15-1: Understand what rehabilitation is and why it is imperative.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: The Rise and Fall (and Rise Again) of Rehabilitation

Difficulty Level: Easy

2. Prison officials support programming because it prevents inmates from being idle and keeps them out of trouble.

Learning Objective: 15-1: Understand what rehabilitation is and why it is imperative.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: The Rise and Fall (and Rise Again) of Rehabilitation

Difficulty Level: Easy

3. The medical model does not acknowledge the existence of any of the external factors associated with criminality.

Learning Objective: 15-1: Understand what rehabilitation is and why it is imperative.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: The Rise and Fall (and Rise Again) of Rehabilitation

Difficulty Level: Easy

4. Rehabilitation is based on the medical model.

Learning Objective: 15-1: Understand what rehabilitation is and why it is imperative.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: The Rise and Fall (and Rise Again) of Rehabilitation

Difficulty Level: Easy

5. The majority of rehabilitative programming in prisons is based on cognitive-behavioral principles.

Learning Objective: 15-1: Understand what rehabilitation is and why it is imperative.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Evidence-Based Practices

Difficulty Level: Easy

6. The needs principle involves an offender’s probability of reoffending.

Learning Objective: 15-3: Understand the risk, needs, and responsivity model of treatment.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Evidence-Based Practices

Difficulty Level: Easy

7. The risk, needs, and responsivity (RNR_ model is the premier treatment model in corrections today in the United States and many other countries.

Learning Objective: 15-3: Understand the risk, needs, and responsivity model of treatment.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Evidence-Based Practices

Difficulty Level: Easy

8. The needs principle is how responsive an individual is to treatment and learning style.

Learning Objective: 15-3: Understand the risk, needs, and responsivity model of treatment.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Evidence-Based Practices

Difficulty Level: Easy

9. Providing feedback builds accountability and maintains integrity, ultimately improving outcomes.

Learning Objective: 15-2: Know the principles of evidence-based practices.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Evidence-Based Practices

Difficulty Level: Easy

10. Offenders’ risks and needs are measured and assessed by three different scales.

Learning Objective: 15-3: Understand the risk, needs, and responsivity model of treatment.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Evidence-Based Practices

Difficulty Level: Easy

11. Treatment and rehabilitation should concentrate on static risk factors.

Learning Objective: 15-3: Understand the risk, needs, and responsivity model of treatment.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Evidence-Based Practices

Difficulty Level: Easy

12. The first lesson of cognitive-behavorial therapy (CBT) is that criminals think differently than the rest of us.

Learning Objective: 15-4: Learn something about cognitive-behavioral therapy.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy

Difficulty Level: Easy

13. Clinicians call factors that can be changed (such as attitudes and beliefs) holistic factors.

Learning Objective: Learn something about cognitive-behavioral therapy.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Evidence-Based Practices

Difficulty Level: Easy

14. Clinicians call factors that cannot be changed (such as race and ethnicity) static factors.

Learning Objective: 15-3: Understand the risk, needs, and responsivity model of treatment.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Evidence-Based Practices

Difficulty Level: Easy

15. Because of the counseling element inherent in the therapeutic community (TC) approach, life in TCs is relatively easy on inmates.

Learning Objective: 15-5: Understand the functions of therapeutic communities in correction.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Substance Abuse Programming

Difficulty Level: Easy

16. Most therapeutic communities offer short-term opportunities for offender rehabilitation.

Learning Objective: 15-5: Understand the functions of therapeutic communities in correction.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Substance Abuse Programming

Difficulty Level: Easy

17. Heritability is a larger factor in type I alcoholics than in type II alcoholics.

Learning Objective: 15-1: Understand what rehabilitation is and why it is imperative.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Substance Abuse Programming

Difficulty Level: Easy

18. According to the bulk of research on the connection between drug use and crime, drug abuse appears to initiate a criminal career.

Learning Objective: 15-1: Understand what rehabilitation is and why it is imperative.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Substance Abuse Programming

Difficulty Level: Easy

19. Drug abuse increases the extent and seriousness of criminal activity.

Learning Objective: 15-1: Understand what rehabilitation is and why it is imperative.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Substance Abuse Programming

Difficulty Level: Easy

20. Phase III, the final phase in the Delaware Multistage Program, occurs while offenders are still incarcerated.

Learning Objective: 15-1: Understand what rehabilitation is and why it is imperative.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Substance Abuse Programming

Difficulty Level: Easy

21. Drug abuse does not appear to initiate a criminal career.

Learning Objective: 15-1: Understand what rehabilitation is and why it is imperative.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Substance Abuse Programming

Difficulty Level: Easy

22. Alcohol is involved in over three-quarters of all homicides.

Learning Objective: 15-1: Understand what rehabilitation is and why it is imperative.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Substance Abuse Programming

Difficulty Level: Easy

23. A central component of many treatment programs in corrections is anger management.

Learning Objective: 15-1: Understand what rehabilitation is and why it is imperative.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Anger Management

Difficulty Level: Easy

24. Chemical castration involves the use of the synthetic hormone Depo-Provera and is intended to reduce sexual thoughts, fantasies, and erections by drastically reducing the amount of testosterone produced.

Learning Objective: 15-6: Know the special treatment modalities applied to sex offenders.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Sex Offenders and Their Treatment

Difficulty Level: Easy

25. Research suggests that chemical castration is more successful than surgical castration for sex offenders.

Learning Objective: 15-6: Know the special treatment modalities applied to sex offenders

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Sex Offenders and Their Treatment

Difficulty Level: Easy

Essay

1. Discuss the historical use of rehabilitation in the U.S. correctional system.

Learning Objective: 15-1: Understand what rehabilitation is and why it is imperative.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: The Rise and Fall (and Rise Again) of Rehabilitation

Difficulty Level: Medium

2. Explain the cognitive-behavioral approach and its use in rehabilitation.

Learning Objective: 15-4: Learn something about cognitive-behavioral therapy.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy

Difficulty Level: Medium

3. Explain therapeutic communities and their use.

Learning Objective: 15-5: Understand the functions of therapeutic communities in correction.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Substance Abuse Programming

Difficulty Level: Medium

4. Explain the medical model and its relationship to rehabilitation.

Learning Objective: 15-1: Understand what rehabilitation is and why it is imperative.

Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Answer Location: The Rise and Fall (and Rise Again) of Rehabilitation

Difficulty Level: Medium

5. Explain the risk, needs, and responsivity model.

Learning Objective: 15-3: Understand the risk, needs, and responsivity model of treatment.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Evidence-Based Practices

Difficulty Level: Medium

6. Discuss what you think is the most effective way to treat addiction.

Learning Objective: 15-1: Understand what rehabilitation is and why it is imperative.

Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Answer Location: Entire Chapter

Difficulty Level: Medium

7. What are static risk factors? Give two examples.

Learning Objective: 15-3: Understand the risk, needs, and responsivity model of treatment.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Evidence-Based Practices

Difficulty Level: Medium

8. What are dynamic factors? Give two examples.

Learning Objective: 15-3: Understand the risk, needs, and responsivity model of treatment.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Evidence-Based Practices

Difficulty Level: Medium

9. Discuss the variables that influence inmate perceptions about residential substance abuse treatment programs.

Learning Objective: 15-5: Understand the functions of therapeutic communities in correction.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Substance Abuse Programming

Difficulty Level: Medium

10. Identify and explain what you believe is the most effective of the evidence-based practices. Provide your justification for this selection.

Learning Objective: 10-2: Know the principles of evidence-based practices.

Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Answer Location: Evidence-Based Practices

Difficulty Level: Hard

11. Describe the relationship between drugs and crime. What challenges does this relationship pose for researchers and practitioners?

Learning Objective: 15-1: Understand what rehabilitation is and why it is imperative.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Substance Abuse Programming

Difficulty Level: Medium

12. What is the rationale behind anger management? How is it used in rehabilitation? Do you think this type of rehabilitation helps? Why or why not?

Learning Objective: 15-1: Understand what rehabilitation is and why it is imperative.

Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Answer Location: Anger Management

Difficulty Level: Medium

13. Discuss the issue of chemical castration. What is it and what is it intended to do? Who is the target population? Do you agree with this type of treatment? Why or why not?

Learning Objective: 15-6: Know the special treatment modalities applied to sex offenders.

Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Answer Location: Sex Offenders and Their Treatment

Difficulty Level: Hard

14. What do you think is the most important risk factor for programing to target? Provide a detailed justification for your selection.

Learning Objective: 15-3: Understand the risk, needs, and responsivity model of treatment.

Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Answer Location: Entire Chapter

Difficulty Level: Hard

15. Do you agree or disagree with the use of rehabilitation in corrections? Provide a detailed justification of your position.

Learning Objective: 15-1: Understand what rehabilitation is and why it is imperative.

Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Answer Location: Entire Chapter

Difficulty Level: Hard