The History Of Control And Punishment Test Bank Fuller Ch.10

Chapter 10: The History of Control and Punishment

Test Bank

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 10 - Question 1

1) This early U.S. prison was characterized by the separate-and-silent system.

a. Castle Island

b. Walnut Street Jail

c. Auburn Prison

d. Eastern State Penitentiary

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 10 - Question 2

2) In this late 19th- and early 20th-century system, companies and individuals could purchase the labor of prison inmates from state and county governments.

a. Convict lease system

b. Marks-of-commendation system

c. Congregate-and-silent system

d. Convict-purchase system

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 10 - Question 3

3) For the murder of John Lennon, Mark Chapman was sentenced in 1981 to 20-years-to-life in prison. About every four years, he attends parole hearings that determine whether he will be released. Which term best describes this type of sentence?

a. Indeterminate sentence

b. Life sentence

c. Determinate sentence

d. Death sentence

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 10 - Question 4

4) This early U.S. prison was characterized by the congregate-and-silent system.

a. Eastern State Penitentiary

b. Walnut Street Jail

c. Castle Island

d. Auburn Prison

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 10 - Question 5

5) Which U.S. Supreme Court case reinstated the death penalty?

a. Hope v. Pelzer

b. Atkins v. Virginia

c. Furman v. Georgia

d. Gregg v. Georgia

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 10 - Question 6

6) This case helped set guidelines for what constitutes cruel and unusual punishment in prison and the circumstances under which prison officials are liable.

a. Hope v. Pelzer

b. Ford v. Wainwright

c. Atkins v. Virginia

d. Gideon v. Wainwright

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 10 - Question 7

7) This technique was designed not just to punish, but to make the inmate more likely to return to free society successfully.

a. Irish System

b. Norfolk System

c. Pennsylvania System

d. Auburn System

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 10 - Question 8

8) This system, developed by Alexander Maconochie, allowed the inmate to earn the right to be released.

a. Congregate-and-silent

b. Separate- and-silent

c. Marks-of-commendation

d. Ticket-of-leave

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 10 - Question 9

9) Sir Walter Crofton instituted this system in which inmates were given a conditional release and supervised by local police.

a. Ticket-to-ride

b. Marks-of-commendation

c. Early parole

d. Ticket-of-leave

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 10 - Question 10

10) This prison, run by Zebulon Brockway, used an early form of parole, as well as corporal punishment.

a. Walnut Street Jail

b. Elmira Reformatory

c. Cherry Hill

d. Eastern State Penitentiary

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 10 - Question 11

11) This New York City detention complex consists of ten jails and sits in the East River between the Bronx and Queens.

a. Picard Island

b. The Tombs

c. Lincoln Correctional Facility

d. Rikers Island

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 10 - Question 12

12) The 1931 report from this commission helped to institute the era of rehabilitation.

a. Warren Commission

b. Wickersham Commission

c. Knapp Commission

d. Prison Commission

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 10 - Question 13

13) This federal incarceration agency was established in 1930.

a. Prisons Bureau

b. Bureau of Prisons

c. Bureau of Incarceration

d. Federal Prison Agency

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 10 - Question 14

14) Which change was instituted during the age of retribution?

a. Abolition of parole

b. Voluntary treatment

c. Determinate sentences

d. All of the above

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 10 - Question 15

15) This decision banned the execution of the insane.

a. Hope v. Pelzer

b. Furman v. Georgia

c. Ford v. Wainwright

d. Atkins v. Virginia

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 10 - Question 16

16) This decision established limits for the execution of the intellectually disabled.

a. Atkins v. Virginia

b. Hope v. Pelzer

c. Furman v. Georgia

d. Ford v. Wainwright

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 10 - Question 17

17) According to this method of control, individual offenders are prevented from breaking more laws by either imprisonment or death.

a. Specific deterrence

b. General deterrence

c. Intermediate deterrence

d. Absolute deterrence

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 10 - Question 18

18) According to this method of control, the punishment of a single offender sets an example for the rest of society.

a. Absolute deterrence

b. Specific deterrence

c. Intermediate deterrence

d. General deterrence

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 10 - Question 19

19) This philosophy states than a person who commits a heinous offense deserves death.

a. Just deserts

b. General deterrence

c. Specific deterrence

d. All of the above

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 10 - Question 20

20) This is a style of control in which offenders are punished as severely as possible for a crime and in which rehabilitation is not attempted.

a. Deterrence model

b. Rehabilitation model

c. Retribution model

d. Just deserts model

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 10 - Question 21

21) Which amendment provides the guarantee against cruel and unusual punishment?

a. Eighth

b. Fifth

c. Fourteenth

d. Sixth

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 10 – Question 22

22) In what decade did the courts begin to specify the constitutional rights of inmates?

a. 1980s

b. 1920s

c. 1930s

d. 1960s

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 10 - Question 23

23) Which best applies to the Walnut Street Jail?

a. It was the country’s first penitentiary.

b. It was a military prison during the Revolutionary War.

c. It set the tone for prisons built in the next century.

d. All of the above.

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 10 - Question 24

24) Which form of execution is most common in the United States?

a. Lethal injection

b. Electrocution

c. Hanging

d. gas

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 10 - Question 25

25) In this case, the Supreme Court found that the possibility that a method of humane execution would be incorrectly administered and cause the condemned pain does not violate the Eighth Amendment ban on cruel and unusual punishment.

a. Baze v. Rees

b. Ford v. Wainwright

c. Hope v. Pelzer

d. Atkins v. Virginia

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 10 - Question 26

26) Prior to the 20th century, two major features of the death sentence were spectacle and pain.

a. True

b. False

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 10 - Question 27

27) Methods of execution have changed to include the reduction of torture.

a. True

b. False

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 10 - Question 28

28) Early American prisons were locally controlled and incarcerated different types of offenders together.

a. True

b. False

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 10 - Question 29

29) The Auburn Prison at first used the separate-and-silent system until officials realized the system was extremely harmful to inmates.

a. True

b. False

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 10 - Question 30

30) According to Maconochie, brutality was necessary and useful for purposes of social control.

a. True

b. False

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 10 - Question 31

31) Most inmates who work have jobs that involve the running and maintenance of the prison.

a. True

b. False

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 10 - Question 32

32) It was not until around 1980 that U.S. prisons acknowledged rehabilitation as a primary goal.

a. True

b. False

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 10 - Question 33

33) The rehabilitation movement in prisons was fully accomplished and found not to work.

a. True

b. False

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 10 - Question 34

34) A primary reason that rehabilitation eventually became considered important was the change in how science regarded illness.

a. True

b. False

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 10 - Question 35

35) The idea of incarceration as the sole punishment for convicted offenders took some time to develop.

a. True

b. False

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 10 - Question 36

36) U.S. courts have always been deeply involved in the operation of prisons.

a. True

b. False

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 10 - Question 37

37) The medical model compares crime to disease and agrees that some offenders are just hopeless cases.

a. True

b. False

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 10 - Question 38

38) The deterrence argument is at the foundation of the support of capital punishment.

a. True

b. False

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 10 - Question 39

39) Execution is older than incarceration.

a. True

b. False

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 10 - Question 40

40) Historically, executions were part of a public spectacle designed to demonstrate the consequences of violating the law.

a. True

b. False