Test Bank Chapter 11 Ethics And Community-Based Corrections

Chapter 11

Test Bank

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 11 Question 01

1) Community-based corrections refers to options available to judges at sentencing designed to both punish and rehabilitate offenders while allowing them to remain in the community.

a. True

b. False

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 11 Question 02

2) Currently, there is no code of ethics to guide probation and parole officers in this country.

a. True

b. False

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 11 Question 03

3) About 10% of preservice training for probation and parole officers in this country is devoted to professional conduct and ethics.

a. True

b. False

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 11 Question 04

4) Duality in the role of probation and parole officers refers to the fact they are both enforcers of probation and parole agreements and treatment providers.

a. True

b. False

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 11 Question 05

5) As community-based corrections moves toward more of a neighborhood-based model, the ideals guiding, and the obligations of, probation and parole officers are changing.

a. True

b. False

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 11 Question 06

6) Arming probation and parole officers may create unnecessary liability for officers.

a. True

b. False

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 11 Question 07

7) Structural deficiencies in the organization and administration of community-based corrections may result in the criminal justice system knowingly setting up offenders to fail.

a. True

b. False

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 11 Question 08

8) There is no evidence probation and parole officer caseloads and workloads create ethical issues relating to the ability of these officers to meet their obligation to serve as agents of treatment and change.

a. True

b. False

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 11 Question 09

9) Courts requiring DUI offenders to plaster bumper stickers on their vehicles indicating their drinking habits does not create ethical issues concerning acceptable penal content.

a. True

b. False

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 11 Question 10

10) Ethical questions arise when the content of community-based correctional programs involve deprivations suffered by offenders.

a. True

b. False

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 11 Question 11

11) Which of the following is considered a “pillar” of community-based corrections?

a. Intermediate sanctions

b. Jails

c. Prisons

d. All of the above

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 11 Question 12

12) Parole:

a. Involves periodic incarceration in a local jail (e.g., every other weekend) for the duration of the sentence received

b. Refers to early release from prison after offender serves a portion of her sentence

c. Is used in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, and at the federal level

d. Was developed by John Augustus in the 1850s in Boston

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 11 Question 13

13) Ethical issues in community-based corrections include which of the following?

a. Offender-funded corrections

b. Acceptable penal content

c. Probation/parole officer workloads and caseloads

d. All of the above

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 11 Question 14

14) The ethical issue involving duality in the role of probation/parole officer relates to:

a. Conflict between officers’ obligation to protect the community while also serving as treatment providers

b. Conflict over officer caseloads and workloads

c. Conflict arising over officers enforcing potentially unacceptable penal content

d. None of the above

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 11 Question 15

15) As community-based corrections moves toward more of a neighborhood-based model:

a. Fewer people will be interested in careers in probation and parole

b. More pre- and in-service training in the enforcement function of officers will occur

c. More questions will arise concerning whether the sanctions being enforced in probation/parole agreements meet ethical standards for acceptable penal content

d. Change will occur in both the guiding ideals for probation and parole officers and the obligations they have to their clients

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 11 Question 16

16) Which is an ethical issue surrounding probation/parole officers’ caseloads and workloads?

a. Officers’ ability to identify whether the sanctions imposed by probation/parole agreements meets ethical standards for acceptable penal content

b. Officers’ ability to fulfill her obligations of surveillance, treatment, and enforcement

c. Officers’ ability to pursue in-service training

d. None of the above

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 11 Question 17

17) Which of the following is an issue relating to arming probation/parole officers?

a. Their role changes to one that overemphasizes surveillance and enforcement and diminishes treatment, rehabilitation, and change

b. Unnecessary liability is created for both officers, their agency, and the state

c. Agencies will have to develop policies relating to training, qualification, requalification, and use of weapons by officers

d. All of the above

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 11 Question 18

18) Critics of offender-funded community-based corrections worry that:

a. Surveillance and enforcement aspects of community-based corrections will suffer

b. Greater reliance on the police to enforce probation and parole agreements will occur

c. The poorer the offender, the more they pay and the longer they must live with the threat of probation or parole revocation hanging over their heads

d. Wealthier offenders, because they have access to greater resources, will be treated unfairly compared to poorer offenders

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 11 Question 19

19) Which of the following is an ethical issue associated with electronic monitoring of probationers and parolees?

a. Impact of the sanction on probation/parole officer workloads

b. Technological innovation

c. How electronic monitoring is implemented

d. Who is designing and implementing electronic monitoring

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 11 Question 20

20) Privatization of community-based corrections to involve for profit companies:

a. Could lead to significant change in the model standards for community-based corrections

b. Could lead to improper influences by these companies on judicial decision making at sentencing

c. May negatively impact these companies’ ability to run for-profit prisons

d. May mean private-sector service providers, including for-profit companies, do not have to demonstrate qualifications such as licensing and experience

Type: essay/short answer question

Title: Chapter 11 Question 21

21) Discuss the ethical issues that surround community-based corrections. How might these issues be addressed?

Type: essay/short answer question

Title: Chapter 11 Question 22

22) Discuss how the duality of the role of probation and parole officers creates ethical issues for them. What might be a solution to this problem?

Type: essay/short answer question

Title: Chapter 11 Question 23

23) Given the mixed history, administration, and purposes of probation and parole, can they be justified as ethical forms of punishment? Explain.

Type: essay/short answer question

Title: Chapter 11 Question 24

24) Can intermediate sanctions be ethically justified? Choose any system of ethics and subject intermediate sanctions to ethical scrutiny.

Type: essay/short answer question

Title: Chapter 11 Question 25

25) Increasingly, it appears that “cash-register justice,” “offender-funded justice” and similar descriptions typify community-based corrections. To what do these terms refer? If these descriptions are true, is the ethical legitimacy of community-based corrections in jeopardy? Explain why or why not.