Legal Issues In Corrections Chapter 18 Verified Test Bank - Complete Test Bank | Corrections Policy to Practice 2e by Mary K. Stohr. DOCX document preview.
Chapter 18: Legal Issues in Corrections
Test Bank
Multiple Choice
1. Who said that civilizations can be judged by the way in which they treat their prisoners?
a. Winston Churchill
b. Thomas Payne
c. Plato
d. Jesus Christ
Learning Objective: 18-1: Explain the relevance Packer’s (1997) two models of criminal justice have for prisoners’ rights.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Introduction
Difficulty Level: Easy
2. The ______ doctrine refers to the reluctance of the judiciary to interfere with the management and administration of prisons.
a. reformatory
b. capital
c. hands-off
d. slavery
Learning Objective: 18-2: Identify the different legal periods in terms of prisoners’ rights.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: The Hands-Off Period, 1866–1963
Difficulty Level: Easy
3. State statutes that cause convicts to lose the right to vote, to hold public office, and even to marry, are referred to as ______.
a. civil death statutes
b. habeas corpus statutes
c. slavery statutes
d. culture of fear statutes
Learning Objective: 18-2: Identify the different legal periods in terms of prisoners’ rights.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: The Hands-Off Period, 1866–1963
Difficulty Level: Easy
4. Habeas corpus literally means ______.
a. you shall have the body
b. court order
c. petition of the accused
d. fair trial
Learning Objective: 18-2: Identify the different legal periods in terms of prisoners’ rights.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: The Prisoners’ Rights Period, 1964–1978
Difficulty Level: Easy
5. In which case did the U.S. Supreme Court rule in 1941, that inmates had the right to unrestricted access to federal courts to challenge the legality of their confinement?
a. Ruffin v. Commonwealth
b. Ex parte Hull
c. Cooper v. Pate
d. Bell v. Wolfish
Learning Objective: 18-2: Identify the different legal periods in terms of prisoners’ rights.
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: The Prisoners’ Rights Period, 1964–1978
Difficulty Level: Easy
6. A writ of habeas corpus is the technical term for:
a. challenging the legality of confinement.
b. producing probable cause.
c. imposing punishment without a trial.
d. making some act criminal after the fact.
Learning Objective: 18-2: Identify the different legal periods in terms of prisoners’ rights.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: The Prisoners’ Rights Period, 1964–1978
Difficulty Level: Easy
7. The prohibition of bills of attainder addresses:
a. challenging the legality of confinement.
b. producing probable cause.
c. the imposition of punishment without a trial.
d. making some act criminal after the fact.
Learning Objective: 18-2: Identify the different legal periods in terms of prisoners’ rights.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: The Prisoners’ Rights Period, 1964–1978
Difficulty Level: Easy
8. The prohibition of ex post facto addresses:
a. challenging the legality of confinement.
b. producing probable cause.
c. the imposition of punishment without a trial.
d. making some act criminal after the fact.
Learning Objective: 18-2: Identify the different legal periods in terms of prisoners’ rights.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: The Prisoners’ Rights Period, 1964–1978
Difficulty Level: Easy
9. In which court case did the U.S. Supreme Court enunciate what is now known as the balancing test, meaning that courts must balance the rights of inmates against the penological concerns of security and order?
a. Turner v. Safley
b. Wolff v. McDonnell
c. Sandin v. Conner
d. Kansas v. Hendricks
Learning Objective: 18-3: Identify issues and cases involving the First, Fourth, Eighth, and Fourteenth Amendments.
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Fourth Amendment
Difficulty Level: Easy
10. The Fourth amendment does not apply universally to inmates because:
a. the safety of prisoners is paramount.
b. inmates do not have the right to profit.
c. maliciously and sadistically applied punishment is difficult to prove.
d. what is reasonable within the walls of prison may be different than what is reasonable beyond those walls.
Learning Objective: 18-3: Identify issues and cases involving the First, Fourth, Eighth, and Fourteenth Amendments.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Fourth Amendment
Difficulty Level: Easy
11. The Supreme Court ruled that the viewing of exposed opposite-sex inmates:
a. is unconstitutional due to privacy rights.
b. is constitutional when reasonably related to legitimate penal interests.
c. is unconstitutional due to double standards.
d. is constitutional due to equal opportunity in employment.
Learning Objective: 18-3: Identify issues and cases involving the First, Fourth, Eighth, and Fourteenth Amendments.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Fourth Amendment
Difficulty Level: Easy
12. Prison officials ______ inspect prisoner tax returns for fraudulent claims.
a. must
b. are allowed
c. are not allowed
d. prisoners do not file tax returns.
Learning Objective: 18-3: Identify issues and cases involving the First, Fourth, Eighth, and Fourteenth Amendments.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Fourth Amendment
Difficulty Level: Easy
13. The double standard with regard to cross-gender searches is justified on which of the following assumptions?
a. males do not experience loss of job opportunities if they are forbidden to frisk females.
b. intimate touching of a female inmate by a male officer may cause psychological trauma.
c. many female inmates have histories of sexual abuse.
d. all of these
Learning Objective: 18-3: Identify issues and cases involving the First, Fourth, Eighth, and Fourteenth Amendments.
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Fourth Amendment
Difficulty Level: Medium
14. Which Amendment forbids cruel and unusual punishment?
a. First
b. Fourth
c. Eighth
d. Fourteenth
Learning Objective: 18-3: Identify issues and cases involving the First, Fourth, Eighth, and Fourteenth Amendments.
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Eighth Amendment
Difficulty Level: Easy
15. In which case did the U.S. Supreme Court rule that prisoners can use a writ of habeas corpus to challenge the conditions of their confinement, as well as the legality of their confinement?
a. Ruffin v. Commonwealth
b. Ex parte Hull
c. Cooper v. Pate
d. Bell v. Wolfish
Learning Objective: 18-2: Identify the different legal periods in terms of prisoners’ rights.
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: The Prisoners’ Rights Period, 1964–1978
Difficulty Level: Easy
16. Cruel and unusual punishment refers to punishment applied
a. maliciously
b. purposefully
c. forcefully
d. provable
Learning Objective: 18-3: Identify issues and cases involving the First, Fourth, Eighth, and Fourteenth Amendments.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Eighth Amendment
Difficulty Level: Easy
17. Interpretation of the Eighth Amendment requires that prison officials must provide for
a. medical attention
b. food
c. protection from sexual abuse
d. all of these
Learning Objective: 18-3: Identify issues and cases involving the First, Fourth, Eighth, and Fourteenth Amendments.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Eighth Amendment
Difficulty Level: Easy
18. The rate of sexual assault in prisons is statically ______ compared to rate on the outside.
a. higher
b. lower
c. the same
d. much higher
Learning Objective: 18-3: Identify issues and cases involving the First, Fourth, Eighth, and Fourteenth Amendments.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Eighth Amendment
Difficulty Level: Easy
19. Which court case is widely considered to be the one that signaled the onset of the deference period?
a. Ruffin v. Commonwealth
b. Ex parte Hull
c. Cooper v. Pate
d. Bell v. Wolfish
Learning Objective: 18-2: Identify the different legal periods in terms of prisoners’ rights.
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: The Deference Period, 1979–Present
Difficulty Level: Easy
20. The Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act ______.
a. was enacted to prosecute terrorists following 9/11.
b. effectively limited the prisoner’s right to habeas corpus.
c. made legal the death penalty for domestic terrorists.
d. eliminates a domestic terrorist’s right to a fair trial.
Learning Objective: 18-5: Explain how and why prisoners’ petitions have been curtailed.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Curtailing Prisoner Petitions
Difficulty Level: Easy
21. The Prison Litigation Reform Act was enacted to:
a. provide prisoners with habeas corpus rights.
b. allow prisoners the right to petition.
c. place state prisons under the supervision of the federal system.
d. limit prisoners’ access to federal courts.
Learning Objective: 18-5: Explain how and why prisoners’ petitions have been curtailed.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Curtailing Prisoner Petitions
Difficulty Level: Easy
22. In which case did the U.S. Supreme Court rule that while inmates are not entitled to the same due process rights as an accused but unconvicted person on the outside, they are entitled to some?
a. Turner v. Safley
b. Wolff v. McDonnell
c. Sandin v. Conner
d. Kansas v. Hendricks
Learning Objective: 18-3: Identify issues and cases involving the First, Fourth, Eighth, and Fourteenth Amendments.
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Fourteenth Amendment
Difficulty Level: Easy
23. In 1997, the Supreme Court upheld Kansas’s Sexually Violent Predator Act, which allowed for civil commitment to be:
a. used for long-term and convicted offenders.
b. used in lieu of prison.
c. used to further imprison inmates convicted of sex crimes, past their full prison term.
d. used to avoid due process.
Learning Objective: 18-4: Analyze the pros and cons of civil commitment for sex offenders.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: The Civil Commitment of Sex Offenders
Difficulty Level: Easy
24. In which case did the U.S. Supreme Court rule that provided due process rights for inmates as indicated in Wolff v. McDonnell, are triggered by any disciplinary action that may result in the loss of “good time,” which amounts to an extension of an inmate’s sentence?
a. Turner v. Safley
b. Wolff v. McDonnell
c. Sandin v. Connor
d. Kansas v. Hendricks
Learning Objective: 18-3: Identify issues and cases involving the First, Fourth, Eighth, and Fourteenth Amendments.
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Fourteenth Amendment
Difficulty Level: Easy
25. Inmates are the only Americans with a constitutional right to ______.
a. habeas corpus
b. an indigent defense
c. health care
d. none of these
Learning Objective: 18-3: Identify issues and cases involving the First, Fourth, Eighth, and Fourteenth Amendments.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Eighth Amendment
Difficulty Level: Easy
26. When did the Prisoners Rights period begin?
a. 1866
b. 1964
c. 1978
d. 1983
Learning Objective: 18-2: Identify the different legal periods in terms of prisoners’ rights.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: The Prisoners’ Rights Period, 1964–1978
Difficulty Level: Easy
27. The right to privacy is a paramount concern of the _____ Amendment
a. First
b. Fourth
c. Fourteenth
d. Fifth
Learning Objective: 18-3: Identify issues and cases involving the First, Fourth, Eighth, and Fourteenth Amendments.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Fourth Amendment
Difficulty Level: Easy
28. According to a Bureau of Justice Statistics report on inmate mortality in state prisons, prisoners between 15 and 64 years of age had a mortality rate ______ than that of the U.S. general population.
a. 22.5% higher
b. 12% higher
c. 4.8% lower
d. 19% lower
Learning Objective: 18-3: Identify issues and cases involving the First, Fourth, Eighth, and Fourteenth Amendments.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Eighth Amendment
Difficulty Level: Easy
29. In the year that the PLRA and AEDPA were passed, there were ______ prisoner petitions.
a. 73,406
b. 68,235
c. 54,300
d. 24,519
Learning Objective: 18-5: Explain how and why prisoners’ petitions have been curtailed.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Curtailing Prisoner Petitions
Difficulty Level: Easy
30. Who is credited with the idea of the rule of law?
a. Winston Churchill
b. Thomas Payne
c. Plato
d. Jesus Christ
Learning Objective: 18-1: Explain the relevance Packer’s (1997) two models of criminal justice have for prisoners’ rights.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: The Rule of Law
Difficulty Level: Easy
31. In 2008, there was an estimated _____ in every 100 adults in jails or prisons in the United States.
a. 1
b. 5
c. 11
d. 17
Learning Objective: 18-1: Explain the relevance Packer’s (1997) two models of criminal justice have for prisoners’ rights.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Introduction
Difficulty Level: Easy
32. Which of the following has been called “the most important legal principle in the world”?
a. parens patriae
b. writ of certiorari
c. rule of law
d. due process of law
Learning Objective: 18-1: Explain the relevance Packer’s (1997) two models of criminal justice have for prisoners’ rights.
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: The Rule of Law
Difficulty Level: Easy
33. The rule of law involves the notion that _____ are subject to the law.
a. lawmakers
b. presidents
c. prime ministers
d. all of these
Learning Objective: 18-1: Explain the relevance Packer’s (1997) two models of criminal justice have for prisoners’ rights.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: The Rule of Law
Difficulty Level: Easy
34. _____ is owed to all persons whenever they are threatened with the loss of life, liberty, or property at the hands of the state.
a. Common law
b. Due process of law
c. Rule of law
d. Rule by law
Learning Objective: 18-1: Explain the relevance Packer’s (1997) two models of criminal justice have for prisoners’ rights.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: The Rule of Law
Difficulty Level: Easy
35. The philosophical justification for civil-death statutes came from the text of the _____ Amendment.
a. First
b. Fourth
c. Thirteenth
d. Fifteenth
Learning Objective: 18-2: Identify the different legal periods in terms of prisoners’ rights.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: The Hands-Off Period, 1866–1963
Difficulty Level: Easy
36. Federal courts in the 20th century began to apply the rights in the Bill of Rights to state actions in a process known as
a. incorporation.
b. selection.
c. application.
d. federalism.
Learning Objective: 18-2: Identify the different legal periods in terms of prisoners’ rights.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: The Prisoners’ Rights Period, 1964–1978
Difficulty Level: Easy
37. The major issues in prisoner litigation has been
a. the treatment of women
b. the overrepresentation of African Americans
c. the conditions of confinement
d. the treatment of gays and lesbians
Learning Objective: 18-2: Identify the different legal periods in terms of prisoners’ rights.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: The Prisoners’ Rights Period, 1964–1978
Difficulty Level: Easy
38. The term _____ refers to situations in which only one party appears before the court.
a. habeas corpus
b. amicus curiae
c. ex parte
d. parens patriae
Learning Objective: 18-2: Identify the different legal periods in terms of prisoners’ rights.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: The Prisoners’ Rights Period, 1964–1978
Difficulty Level: Easy
39. In which of the following cases did the Court of Appeals widen habeas corpus hearings to include conditions of confinement
a. Ex parte Hull
b. Cooper v. Pate
c. Coffin v. Reichard
d. Jones v. Cunningham
Learning Objective: 18-2: Identify the different legal periods in terms of prisoners’ rights.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: The Prisoners’ Rights Period, 1964–1978
Difficulty Level: Easy
40. Which of the following time periods refers to the courts willingness to defer to the expertise and needs of prison authorities?
a. Hands-Off Period
b. Deference Period
c. Prisoner’s Rights Period
d. Medical Period
Learning Objective: 18-2: Identify the different legal periods in terms of prisoners’ rights.
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: The Deference Period, 1979-Present
Difficulty Level: Easy
True/False
1. The hands-off doctrine articulates the reluctance of the judiciary to interfere with the management and administration of prisons.
Learning Objective: 18-2: Identify the different legal periods in terms of prisoners’ rights.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: The Hands-Off Period, 1866–1963
Difficulty Level: Easy
2. In Cooper, the Court ruled that state prison inmates could sue state officials in federal courts under the Civil Rights Act of 1871.
Learning Objective: 18-2: Identify the different legal periods in terms of prisoners’ rights.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: The Prisoners’ Rights Period, 1964–1978
Difficulty Level: Easy
3. Inmates have the legal right to challenge the legality of their confinement, but not the conditions of their confinement.
Learning Objective: 18-3: Identify issues and cases involving the First, Fourth, Eighth, and Fourteenth Amendments.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Constitutional Rights
Difficulty Level: Easy
4. Initially the Bill of Rights was intended only to apply to actions of the federal government and was added to the Constitution to appease the fears of supporters of states’ rights.
Learning Objective: 18-2: Identify the different legal periods in terms of prisoners’ rights.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: The Prisoners’ Rights Period, 1964–1978
Difficulty Level: Easy
5. Kansas’s Sexually Violent Predator Act is criminal law rather than civil law.
Learning Objective: 18-4: Analyze the pros and cons of civil commitment for sex offenders.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: The Civil Commitment of Sex Offenders
Difficulty Level: Easy
6. Freedom of Speech allows inmates to write, publish, and sell books as long as they do not profit.
Learning Objective: 18-3: Identify issues and cases involving the First, Fourth, Eighth, and Fourteenth Amendments.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: First Amendment
Difficulty Level: Easy
7. The First Amendment guarantees freedom from search and seizure.
Learning Objective: 18-3: Identify issues and cases involving the First, Fourth, Eighth, and Fourteenth Amendments.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: First Amendment
Difficulty Level: Easy
8. Ex parte refers to situations where the prosecution fails to bring forth probable cause before the court.
Learning Objective: 18-2: Identify the different legal periods in terms of prisoners’ rights.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: The Prisoners’ Rights Period, 1964–1978
Difficulty Level: Easy
9. The majority of cross-gender search complaints are filed by male inmates.
Learning Objective: 18-3: Identify issues and cases involving the First, Fourth, Eighth, and Fourteenth Amendments.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Fourth Amendment
Difficulty Level: Easy
10. Private misdemeanor probation officers have become glorified debt collectors.
Learning Objective: 18-2: Identify the different legal periods in terms of prisoners’ rights.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Human Rights
Difficulty Level: Easy
11. The due process clause was first applied to inmates facing disciplinary action for infractions of prison rules in Wolff v. McDonnell (1974).
Learning Objective: 18-3: Identify issues and cases involving the First, Fourth, Eighth, and Fourteenth Amendments.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Fourteenth Amendment
Difficulty Level: Easy
12. The Fourth Amendment protection from unreasonable searches and seizures is seen differently when an offender is inside a prison.
Learning Objective: 18-3: Identify issues and cases involving the First, Fourth, Eighth, and Fourteenth Amendments.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Fourth Amendment
Difficulty Level: Easy
13. Since inmates are in prison to be punished, the Eighth Amendment does not apply to inmates.
Learning Objective: 18-3: Identify issues and cases involving the First, Fourth, Eighth, and Fourteenth Amendments.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Eighth Amendment
Difficulty Level: Easy
14. The Fourteenth Amendment has been used to provide due process rights to offenders.
Learning Objective: 18-3: Identify issues and cases involving the First, Fourth, Eighth, and Fourteenth Amendments.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Fourteenth Amendment
Difficulty Level: Easy
15. Freedom of speech for prisoners can be limited on moral or ethical grounds.
Learning Objective: 18-3: Identify issues and cases involving the First, Fourth, Eighth, and Fourteenth Amendments.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: First Amendment
Difficulty Level: Easy
16. The primary intention of the PLRA was to free prisons and jails from federal court supervision, as well as to limit prisoners’ access to the federal courts. Both intentions have largely succeeded.
Learning Objective: 18-5: Explain how and why prisoners’ petitions have been curtailed.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Curtailing Prisoner Petitions
Difficulty Level: Easy
17. The right to privacy is a paramount concern of the Fourth Amendment
Learning Objective: 18-3: Identify issues and cases involving the First, Fourth, Eighth, and Fourteenth Amendments.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Fourth Amendment
Difficulty Level: Easy
18. The Prisoners’ rights period also extended rights to offenders under community supervision.
Learning Objective: 18-2: Identify the different legal periods in terms of prisoners’ rights.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Legal Issues in Probation and Parole
Difficulty Level: Easy
19. Winston Churchill said, “I see that the state in which the law is above the rulers, and the rulers are the inferiors of the law, has salvation, and the very blessings which the Gods can confer.”
Learning Objective: 18-1: Explain the relevance Packer’s (1997) two models of criminal justice have for prisoners’ rights.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: The Rule of Law
Difficulty Level: Easy
20. In 2008, there was an estimated 1 out of every 100 adults in jail or prison in the United States.
Learning Objective: 18-1: Explain the relevance Packer’s (1997) two models of criminal justice have for prisoners’ rights.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Introduction
Difficulty Level: Easy
Short Answer
1. Why is habeas corpus significant?
Learning Objective: 18-1: Explain the relevance Packer’s (1997) two models of criminal justice have for prisoners’ rights.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Introduction
Difficulty Level: Easy
2. How was the Constitution used to justify the hands-off doctrine?
Learning Objective: 18-2: Identify the different legal periods in terms of prisoners’ rights.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Introduction
Difficulty Level: Easy
3. How must an inmate prevail in suits involving deliberate indifference?
Learning Objective: 18-3: Identify issues and cases involving the First, Fourth, Eighth, and Fourteenth Amendments.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Eighth Amendment
Difficulty Level: Easy
4. List the five due process rights guaranteed to inmates.
Learning Objective: 18-3: Identify issues and cases involving the First, Fourth, Eighth, and Fourteenth Amendments.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Fourteenth Amendment
Difficulty Level: Easy
5. What three individual rights are mentioned specifically in the Constitution?
Learning Objective: 18-2: Identify the different legal periods in terms of prisoners’ rights.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: The Prisoners’ Rights Period, 1964–1978
Difficulty Level: Easy
6. Which amendments to the Constitution are discussed when addressing the rights of inmates?
Learning Objective: 18-3: Identify issues and cases involving the First, Fourth, Eighth, and Fourteenth Amendments.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Constitutional Rights
Difficulty Level: Easy
7. What were civil death statutes?
Learning Objective: 18-1: Explain the relevance Packer’s (1997) two models of criminal justice have for prisoners’ rights.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Introduction
Difficulty Level: Easy
8. What is the balancing test created by the Court in the case of Turner v. Safley?
Learning Objective: 18-3: Identify issues and cases involving the First, Fourth, Eighth, and Fourteenth Amendments.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Fourth Amendment
Difficulty Level: Easy
9. What must be shown in order for liability to attach to prison officials for inmate–inmate assaults? How can this be shown?
Learning Objective: 18-3: Identify issues and cases involving the First, Fourth, Eighth, and Fourteenth Amendments.
Cognitive Domain: Analysis
Answer Location: Eighth Amendment
Difficulty Level: Medium
10. How has the case of Kansas v. Hendricks affected the way sex offenders are handled in the system?
Learning Objective: 18-4: Analyze the pros and cons of civil commitment for sex offenders.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: The Civil Commitment of Sex Offenders
Difficulty Level: Easy
Essay
1. Discuss the rule of law, its originator, and explain its three irreducible elements.
Learning Objective: 18-1: Explain the relevance Packer’s (1997) two models of criminal justice have for prisoners’ rights.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: The Rule of Law
Difficulty Level: Easy
2. Explain the basis and impact of the hands off doctrine. Include examples of the courts response to challenges.
Learning Objective: 18-2: Identify the different legal periods in terms of prisoners’ rights.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Introduction
Difficulty Level: Easy
3. Discuss the civil commitment of sex offenders by the ruling in Kansas v. Hendricks, including the various criticisms of this decision.
Learning Objective: 18-4: Analyze the pros and cons of civil commitment for sex offenders.
Cognitive Domain: Analysis
Answer Location: The Civil Commitment of Sex Offenders
Difficulty Level: Medium
4. Discuss and explain the impact that both the Prison Litigation Reform Act and the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act have had on the rights of inmates?
Learning Objective: 18-5: Explain how and why prisoners’ petitions have been curtailed.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Curtailing Prisoner Petitions
Difficulty Level: Medium
5. Discuss a progression away from the hands off doctrine and the establishment of prisoner key rights. Be sure to include relevant cases.
Learning Objective: 18-2: Identify the different legal periods in terms of prisoners’ rights.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: The Prisoners’ Rights Period, 1964–1978
Difficulty Level: Easy
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