Chapter 11: Women and Corrections

Test Bank

Multiple Choice

1. The first prison with a separate wing for women was opened in ______.

a. 1781

b. 1797

c. 1811

d. 1825

Learning Objective: 11-1: Summarize the history of women in corrections.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: History and Growth

Difficulty Level: Easy

2. The poor conditions of the early Bellevue Penitentiary resulted in a ______ epidemic, causing the deaths of 8 women and the escape of 11 others.

a. smallpox

b. tuberculosis

c. salmonella

d. cholera

Learning Objective: 11-1: Summarize the history of women in corrections.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: History and Growth

Difficulty Level: Easy

3. The first prison exclusively for women in the United States was opened in ______.

a. 1839

b. 1868

c. 1897

d. 1917

Learning Objective: 11-1: Summarize the history of women in corrections.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: History and Growth

Difficulty Level: Easy

4. Prior to the Civil War, in Tennessee ______.

a. the law prohibited the imprisonment of women

b. women convicted of crimes were held in single-sex work camps on farms

c. women were housed with men

d. churches were responsible for boarding female convicts

Learning Objective: 11-1: Summarize the history of women in corrections.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: History and Growth

Difficulty Level: Easy

5. In her study of the Maryland Penitentiary between the years 1812 and 1869, Young (2001) discovered that ______ of the incarcerated females were black.

a. about one-quarter

b. approximately one-half

c. nearly three-quarters

d. almost all

Learning Objective: 11-1: Summarize the history of women in corrections.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: History and Growth

Difficulty Level: Easy

6. A Maryland law passed in 1858 made black women who committed larceny the subject of ______.

a. public flogging

b. sale

c. execution

d. lifetime imprisonment

Learning Objective: 11-1: Summarize the history of women in corrections.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: History and Growth

Difficulty Level: Easy

7. During the 19th century, electric shocks were used to punish prisoners in which state?

a. Georgia

b. New York

c. Tennessee

d. Ohio

Learning Objective: 11-1: Summarize the history of women in corrections.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: History and Growth

Difficulty Level: Easy

8. ______ were used to remove impressionable youth from the contamination that association with hardened adult criminals might bring.

a. Houses of refuge

b. Work camps

c. Residential villages

d. Orphanages

Learning Objective: 11-1: Summarize the history of women in corrections.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: History and Growth

Difficulty Level: Easy

9. The attitude of Dorothea Dix about houses of refuge was ______.

a. completely favorable

b. generally favorable

c. generally unfavorable

d. completely unfavorable

Learning Objective: 11-1: Summarize the history of women in corrections.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: History and Growth

Difficulty Level: Easy

10. The first prison to have a separate wing for women inmates was ______.

a. Walnut Street Jail

b. Newgate Prison

c. Eastern Pennsylvania Prison

d. Auburn Prison

Learning Objective: 11-1: Summarize the history of women in corrections.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: History and Growth

Difficulty Level: Easy

11. Which of the following did NOT occur in Auburn Prison in 1825 in regard to the treatment of women?

a. Women were housed in a cramped, unventilated attic.

b. The silent requirement was hard to enforce.

c. Women were without a matron until 1832.

d. Women were not allowed to work.

Learning Objective: 11-1: Summarize the history of women in corrections.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: History and Growth

Difficulty Level: Easy

12. What was the first women’s prison in the United States?

a. Mount Pleasant

b. Sing Sing

c. Elmira Reformatory

d. Mount Vernon

Learning Objective: 11-1: Summarize the history of women in corrections.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: History and Growth

Difficulty Level: Easy

13. During the 19th century, for which crimes did white women tend to be incarcerated more than black women?

a. property offenses

b. violent offenses

c. offenses against morality

d. white-collar offenses

Learning Objective: 11-1: Summarize the history of women in corrections.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: History and Growth

Difficulty Level: Easy

14. What punishment, used in Ohio’s prisons in 1880, forced a naked offender to sit, blind-folded, in a tub while steam pipes were made to shriek and electric current was applied to the body?

a. lash

b. lip

c. electric bee

d. hummingbird

Learning Objective: 11-1: Summarize the history of women in corrections.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: History and Growth

Difficulty Level: Easy

15. The stated purpose of ______ was to remove impressionable youth, mainly boys but also girls, from the contamination that association with more hardened criminals would bring.

a. houses of solace

b. houses of refuge

c. houses of authority

d. youth authority

Learning Objective: 11-1: Summarize the history of women in corrections.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: History and Growth

Difficulty Level: Easy

16. What percentage of violent crime was committed by women in the 19th century?

a. 3–4%

b. 8–10%

c. 15–20%

d. more than 20%

Learning Objective: 11-1: Summarize the history of women in corrections.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: History and Growth

Difficulty Level: Easy

17. Because women and girls represent a smaller proportion of the correctional population, programming for them has traditionally been ______.

a. individualized

b. tailored to women and girls

c. geared toward men and boys

d. more robust

Learning Objective: 11-1: Summarize the history of women in corrections.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: History and Growth

Difficulty Level: Easy

18. According to Young (1994), historically, which group was most likely to have facilities constructed specifically for them?

a. adult females

b. juvenile males

c. juvenile females

d. the elderly

Learning Objective: 11-1: Summarize the history of women in corrections.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: History and Growth

Difficulty Level: Easy

19. The single largest area of growth for women and girls in terms of correctional populations has been ______.

a. residential juvenile facilities

b. prison populations

c. jail populations

d. probation

Learning Objective: 11-2: Identify how the experience of female correctional clients differs from that of males.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Women and Girls in Corrections Today

Difficulty Level: Easy

20. In 2014, women comprised ______ of the jail population.

a. 5%

b. 15%

c. 25%

d. 35%

Learning Objective: 11-2: Identify how the experience of female correctional clients differs from that of males.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Women and Girls in Corrections Today

Difficulty Level: Easy

21. In 2013, women comprised ______ of the probation population.

a. 5%

b. 15%

c. 25%

d. 35%

Learning Objective: 11-2: Identify how the experience of female correctional clients differs from that of males.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Women and Girls in Corrections Today

Difficulty Level: Easy

22. The so-called social feminists were often ______.

a. moralists

b. liberals

c. radicals

d. socialists

Learning Objective: 11-2: Identify how the experience of female correctional clients differs from that of males.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Women and Girls in Corrections Today

Difficulty Level: Easy

23. The concept of double deviants is used to suggest that female offenders ______.

a. are often mentally ill and criminal offenders

b. have broken both the gender expectations and the law

c. are often both offenders and substance abusers

d. have failed both as mothers and as citizens

Learning Objective: 11-2: Identify how the experience of female correctional clients differs from that of males.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Women and Girls in Corrections Today

Difficulty Level: Easy

24. In a recent article in American Jails magazine, Ney (2014) argued that, compared to male offenders, female offenders are more likely to ______.

a. have a substance abuse problem

b. be a safety risk

c. have committed their offenses alone

d. receive lighter sentences

Learning Objective: 11-3: Describe the special challenges faced by women and girls in corrections.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Women and Girls in Corrections Today

Difficulty Level: Easy

25. ______ involves the attitudes, values, and beliefs that favor males over females.

a. Oligarchy

b. Pedogarchy

c. Patriarchy

d. Matriarchy

Learning Objective: 11-2: Identify how the experience of female correctional clients differs from that of males.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Women and Girls in Corrections Today

Difficulty Level: Easy

26. Liberal feminists have argued that, to improve their situation, female offenders really need ______.

a. welfare programs

b. religious values

c. job training

d. a supportive male partner

Learning Objective: 11-2: Identify how the experience of female correctional clients differs from that of males.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Women and Girls in Corrections Today

Difficulty Level: Easy

27. About ______ of women have custody of children at the time of their incarceration.

a. 50%

b. 60%

c. 70%

d. 80%

Learning Objective: 11-3: Describe the special challenges faced by women and girls in corrections.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Women and Girls in Corrections Today

Difficulty Level: Easy

28. One of the reasons that women and girls were removed from facilities for men in the 1800s and 1900s was ______.

a. the cost of housing

b. public opposition to incarcerating women

c. sexual abuse by male staff and inmates

d. a large drop in the number of female inmates

Learning Objective: 11-2: Identify how the experience of female correctional clients differs from that of males.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Women and Girls in Corrections Today

Difficulty Level: Easy

29. The trajectory of employment for female correctional officers has been ______ the growth in women and girls under correctional supervision.

a. slower than

b. faster than

c. equivalent to

d. more steady than

Learning Objective: 11-4: Discuss the challenges that female staff have overcome in corrections and how they did so.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Women and Girls in Corrections Today

Difficulty Level: Easy

30. Women made significant inroads into the correctional population when ______.

a. bridewell construction was being debated as a means of addressing the needs of women and girls under correctional supervision

b. the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was passed

c. the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was amended in 1972

d. the imprisonment binge took hold in the 1980s

Learning Objective: 11-2: Identify how the experience of female correctional clients differs from that of males.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Women and Girls in Corrections Today

Difficulty Level: Easy

31. Which of the following is an example of one of the social remedies proposed by moralists looking to reform women under correctional supervision?

a. efforts to keep them chaste

b. educational and vocational training

c. drug and alcohol counseling

d. therapy to increase their self-concept and self-worth

Learning Objective: 11-2: Identify how the experience of female correctional clients differs from that of males.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Women and Girls in Corrections Today

Difficulty Level: Easy

32. Over a century of correctional operations has focused almost exclusively on addressing ______.

a. the physical and mental health of women

b. the sexuality of females

c. the social psychological needs of females

d. the role of women as primary caregivers

Learning Objective: 11-2: Identify how the experience of female correctional clients differs from that of males.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Women and Girls in Corrections Today

Difficulty Level: Easy

33. Feminists have been instrumental in pushing for ______.

a. better programming for supervised women and girls

b. lighter sentences for women and girls

c. more court involvement for girls who commit status offenses

d. all of these

Learning Objective: 11-2: Identify how the experience of female correctional clients differs from that of males.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Women and Girls in Corrections Today

Difficulty Level: Easy

34. What is the best explanation for a lack of female offenders in the criminal justice system today?

a. Currently, they are less likely to be prosecuted for their crimes and more likely to receive shorter sentences.

b. They engage in fewer street crimes that would lead to incarceration.

c. They are less likely to engage in drug-related crimes.

d. They are less likely to commit capital offenses.

Learning Objective: 11-2: Identify how the experience of female correctional clients differs from that of males.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Women and Girls in Corrections Today

Difficulty Level: Easy

35. As many as ______ of women in custody have experienced sexual abuse prior to incarceration.

a. 25%

b. 60%

c. 75%

d. 100%

Learning Objective: 11-3: Describe the special challenges faced by women and girls in corrections.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Women and Girls in Corrections Today

Difficulty Level: Easy

36. Female institutions, because of economies of scale, require ______.

a. a mixed-gender staff

b. almost the same number of administrative staff as larger male institutions

c. a significantly smaller administrative staff than in larger male institutions

d. an exponentially larger administrative staff than in larger male institutions

Learning Objective: 11-2: Identify how the experience of female correctional clients differs from that of males.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Women and Girls in Corrections Today

Difficulty Level: Easy

37. Which of the following is one of the primary rationales for removing women and girls from male correctional facilities?

a. their different needs

b. the lower cost associated with operating segregated facilities

c. their status as targets of sexual abuse by staff

d. patriarchal beliefs that women are a distraction to males in the facilities

Learning Objective: 11-2: Identify how the experience of female correctional clients differs from that of males.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Women and Girls in Corrections Today

Difficulty Level: Easy

38. According to the moralist feminists, a woman who acted in conformance with societal expectations were ______, whereas those who did not were ______.

a. good; deviants

b. good; devils

c. madonnas; whores

d. madonnas; deviants

Learning Objective: 11-2: Identify how the experience of female correctional clients differs from that of males.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Women and Girls in Corrections Today

Difficulty Level: Easy

39. The health care needs of incarcerated women consist of the need to deal with ______.

a. psychiatric needs specific to gender

b. health problems related to both genders

c. psychological needs specific to gender

d. all of these

Learning Objective: 11-2: Identify how the experience of female correctional clients differs from that of males.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Women and Girls in Corrections Today

Difficulty Level: Easy

40. Incarcerated women are different from men in that they ______.

a. cannot create niches

b. miss their loved ones more

c. create pseudofamilies

d. cost less to house

Learning Objective: 11-2: Identify how the experience of female correctional clients differs from that of males.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Women and Girls in Corrections Today

Difficulty Level: Easy

41. Women who violate social and legal prohibitions are known as ______.

a. whores

b. deviants

c. double whores

d. double deviants

Learning Objective: 11-2: Identify how the experience of female correctional clients differs from that of males.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Women and Girls in Corrections Today

Difficulty Level: Easy

42. Which feminist perspective believed that the source of the crime problem for female offenders lay more with the social structure around these women or girls?

a. liberal

b. moralist

c. patriarchal

d. social

Learning Objective: 11-2: Identify how the experience of female correctional clients differs from that of males.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Women and Girls in Corrections Today

Difficulty Level: Easy

43. Which type of sexual harassment occurs when the workplace is sexualized with jokes, pictures, or other ways that are offensive to one gender?

a. hostile environment

b. quid pro quo

c. unwarranted advances

d. none of these

Learning Objective: 11-4: Discuss the challenges that female staff have overcome in corrections and how they did so.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Female Correctional Officers

Difficulty Level: Easy

44. The Ninth Circuit Court restrictions placed on correctional staff limited ______.

a. public searches of female inmates

b. body searches of male inmates by female staff

c. body searches of female inmates by male staff

d. all body searches

Learning Objective: 11-4: Discuss the challenges that female staff have overcome in corrections and how they did so.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Female Correctional Officers

Difficulty Level: Easy

45. Which of the following is NOT an issue that has arisen as a result of the movement of female staff into male correctional facilities?

a. whether women are physically and mentally suited to corrections work

b. how to deal with sexual and gender harassment

c. whether equal employment rights outweigh the privacy rights of male inmates

d. the degree to which the interaction of male inmates with female correctional staff creates significant distress among male inmates

Learning Objective: 11-4: Discuss the challenges that female staff have overcome in corrections and how they did so.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Female Correctional Officers

Difficulty Level: Easy

46. In regard to the mental and physical suitability of women to perform correctional work, the Supreme Court finds that ______.

a. no job qualification has the capacity to restrict women’s employment in male correctional facilities

b. women are not physically or mentally capable of engaging in correctional work in male institutions

c. women can be excluded from work in male correctional facilities if there is a bona fide job qualification that women cannot perform

d. women should only be employed in female correctional institutions where the risk of their harassment is low and the infringement on the privacy rights of men is not at issue

Learning Objective: 11-4: Discuss the challenges that female staff have overcome in corrections and how they did so.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Female Correctional Officers

Difficulty Level: Easy

47. Which of the following statements best captures the relationship between gender and correctional work in terms of the underlying ideology that guides correctional officer interaction with inmates?

a. Male officers may be more likely than female officers to have a human service orientation in their work.

b. Male officers are more likely than female officers to have a security orientation in their work.

c. Female officers are more likely than male officers to have a security orientation in their work.

d. Both male and female officers value the human service orientation over a security orientation in their work.

Learning Objective: 11-4: Discuss the challenges that female staff have overcome in corrections and how they did so.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Female Correctional Officers

Difficulty Level: Easy

48. Quid pro quo sexual harassment is ______.

a. sexual harassment that involves an exchange of something for something else, as in the case of sexual favors

b. the creation of a hostile work environment in which the workplace becomes sexualized to the detriment of one gender

c. overt sexual abuse of female staff by male staff members

d. none of these

Learning Objective: 11-4: Discuss the challenges that female staff have overcome in corrections and how they did so.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Female Correctional Officers

Difficulty Level: Easy

49. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, in 2015, about ______ of correctional officer jobs in jails and prisons were held by women.

a. 5%

b. 15%

c. 25%

d. 35%

Learning Objective: 11-4: Discuss the challenges that female staff have overcome in corrections and how they did so.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Female Correctional Officers

Difficulty Level: Easy

50. According to a recent Bureau of Justice Statistics report, about ______ of all state-level parole agency staff are women.

a. 20%

b. 30%

c. 40%

d. 50%

Learning Objective: 11-4: Discuss the challenges that female staff have overcome in corrections and how they did so.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Female Correctional Officers

Difficulty Level: Easy

True/False

1. Researcher have found no historical evidence of women being physically mistreated in the correctional system.

Learning Objective: 11-1: Summarize the history of women in corrections.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: History and Growth

Difficulty Level: Easy

2. Historically, only a small percentage of women have been incarcerated for violent crimes.

Learning Objective: 11-1: Summarize the history of women in corrections.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: History and Growth

Difficulty Level: Easy

3. The first women’s prison in the United States was Mount Pleasant, built in 1839.

Learning Objective: 11-1: Summarize the history of women in corrections.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: History and Growth

Difficulty Level: Easy

4. Methods of discipline for women in the 1800s moved from severe to soft, depending on the availability of supervision, the facilities, the number of women incarcerated, and the inclination of the keepers.

Learning Objective: 11-1: Summarize the history of women in corrections.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: History and Growth

Difficulty Level: Easy

5. Dorothea Dix had a very unfavorable view of houses of refuge.

Learning Objective: 11-1: Summarize the history of women in corrections.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: History and Growth

Difficulty Level: Easy

6. The female correctional population has never been larger than it is today.

Learning Objective: 11-2: Identify how the experience of female correctional clients differs from that of males.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Women and Girls in Corrections Today

Difficulty Level: Easy

7. Women and girls under correctional supervision are less likely to have substance abuse problems than their male counterparts.

Learning Objective: 11-3: Describe the special challenges faced by women and girls in corrections.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Women and Girls in Corrections Today

Difficulty Level: Easy

8. Female inmates are more likely than male inmates to have a history of substance abuse.

Learning Objective: 11-3: Describe the special challenges faced by women and girls in corrections.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Women and Girls in Corrections Today

Difficulty Level: Easy

9. More than half of all female inmates have a history of sexual abuse victimization.

Learning Objective: 11-3: Describe the special challenges faced by women and girls in corrections.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Women and Girls in Corrections Today

Difficulty Level: Easy

10. Many of the reform efforts that emerged as a result of feminist scholars and practitioners directed attention to the lack of employment opportunities for women in adult female and male correctional institutions.

Learning Objective: 11-2: Identify how the experience of female correctional clients differs from that of males.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Women and Girls in Corrections Today

Difficulty Level: Easy

11. Females cost much more to incarcerate than males.

Learning Objective: 11-2: Identify how the experience of female correctional clients differs from that of males.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Women and Girls in Corrections Today

Difficulty Level: Easy

12. Among offenders of corporate and white-collar crimes, the more likely offender is female.

Learning Objective: 11-2: Identify how the experience of female correctional clients differs from that of males.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Women and Girls in Corrections Today

Difficulty Level: Easy

13. The number of women and girls as inmates or supervisees in corrections has grown exponentially over the last several years.

Learning Objective: 11-2: Identify how the experience of female correctional clients differs from that of males.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Women and Girls in Corrections Today

Difficulty Level: Easy

14. Patriarchy implies that women are suited for feminine occupations and thus less worthy professions.

Learning Objective: 11-2: Identify how the experience of female correctional clients differs from that of males.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Women and Girls in Corrections Today

Difficulty Level: Easy

15. Social feminists believed that girls involved in the correctional system were there primarily because of the oppressive nature of the social structure and the related effects of poverty and a lack of schooling.

Learning Objective: 11-2: Identify how the experience of female correctional clients differs from that of males.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Women and Girls in Corrections Today

Difficulty Level: Easy

16. Liberal feminists believe that women who violate social norms are whores.

Learning Objective: 11-2: Identify how the experience of female correctional clients differs from that of males.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Women and Girls in Corrections Today

Difficulty Level: Easy

17. Patriarchy is seen as one societal obstacle to achieving equal treatment in corrections.

Learning Objective: 11-2: Identify how the experience of female correctional clients differs from that of males.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Women and Girls in Corrections Today

Difficulty Level: Easy

18. Lawsuits have been remarkably successful in spurring many of the needed changes in correctional practice.

Learning Objective: 11-4: Discuss the challenges that female staff have overcome in corrections and how they did so.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Female Correctional Officers

Difficulty Level: Easy

19. Hiring and training practices have little impact on the prevention of sexual abuse in prison.

Learning Objective: 11-4: Discuss the challenges that female staff have overcome in corrections and how they did so.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Female Correctional Officers

Difficulty Level: Easy

20. Despite training efforts to provide female correctional officers with defensive and offensive tactics to deal with male inmates, they fail to provide women with an advantage in a physical altercation with a male inmate.

Learning Objective: 11-4: Discuss the challenges that female staff have overcome in corrections and how they did so.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Female Correctional Officers

Difficulty Level: Easy

21. Historically, with the exception of matrons, women were prohibited from working in men’s and boys’ correctional institutions on the basis of law, practice, and/or tradition.

Learning Objective: 11-4: Discuss the challenges that female staff have overcome in corrections and how they did so.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Female Correctional Officers

Difficulty Level: Easy

22. Some research suggests that female correctional officers have a calming effect on male prisoners.

Learning Objective: 11-4: Discuss the challenges that female staff have overcome in corrections and how they did so.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Female Correctional Officers

Difficulty Level: Easy

23. Inmates have no real right to privacy in the United States.

Learning Objective: 11-4: Discuss the challenges that female staff have overcome in corrections and how they did so.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Female Correctional Officers

Difficulty Level: Easy

24. The fact that correctional officers in male institutions frequently have to use brute force to manage and control inmates is one of the instances in which women can be disqualified from working in male prisons.

Learning Objective: 11-4: Discuss the challenges that female staff have overcome in corrections and how they did so.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Female Correctional Officers

Difficulty Level: Easy

25. Quid pro quo sexual harassment occurs when the workplace is sexualized in ways that are offensive to one gender.

Learning Objective: 11-4: Discuss the challenges that female staff have overcome in corrections and how they did so.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Female Correctional Officers

Difficulty Level: Easy

Essay

1. Explain what is meant by women being a numerical minority in corrections.

Learning Objective: 11-1: Summarize the history of women in corrections.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: History and Growth

Difficulty Level: Medium

2. According to your textbook, what is the best explanation for the historically low numbers of female offenders in the criminal justice system?

Learning Objective: 11-1: Summarize the history of women in corrections.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: History and Growth

Difficulty Level: Medium

3. Discuss what liberal feminists believe is the cause of women committing crimes.

Learning Objective: 11-2: Identify how the experience of female correctional clients differs from that of males.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Women and Girls in Corrections Today

Difficulty Level: Medium

4. Explain which strategies you believe will best reduce sexual abuse in correctional institutions.

Learning Objective: 11-2: Identify how the experience of female correctional clients differs from that of males.

Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Answer Location: Women and Girls in Corrections Today

Difficulty Level: Medium

5. Explain why the abuse of women and girls while incarcerated is particularly damaging to them.

Learning Objective: 11-2: Identify how the experience of female correctional clients differs from that of males.

Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Answer Location: Women and Girls in Corrections Today

Difficulty Level: Medium

6. Identify and explain the three issues that have been problematic for women in the workplace.

Learning Objective: 11-4: Discuss the challenges that female staff have overcome in corrections and how they did so.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Female Correctional Officers

Difficulty Level: Medium

7. Discuss what work orientation has been found to be preferred by female officers.

Learning Objective: 11-4: Discuss the challenges that female staff have overcome in corrections and how they did so.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Female Correctional Officers

Difficulty Level: Medium

8. Discuss the steps that proactive correctional practitioners have agreed that managers and other employees can take to prevent or stop gender and sexual harassment in the workplace.

Learning Objective: 11-4: Discuss the challenges that female staff have overcome in corrections and how they did so.

Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Answer Location: Female Correctional Officers

Difficulty Level: Medium

9. Discuss some of the key issues that have affected incarcerated women throughout early American history.

Learning Objective: 11-1: Summarize the history of women in corrections.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: History and Growth

Difficulty Level: Medium

10. What were houses of refuge? Why were they created and how did they affect the gendered experience for those placed in them?

Learning Objective: 11-1: Summarize the history of women in corrections.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: History and Growth

Difficulty Level: Medium

11. Explain why females tend to commit fewer violent crimes than their male counterparts.

Learning Objective: 11-2: Identify how the experience of female correctional clients differs from that of male.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Whole Chapter

Difficulty Level: Medium

12. Compare and contrast the issues affecting female and male prisoners.

Learning Objective: 11-2: Identify how the experience of female correctional clients differs from that of males.

Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Answer Location: Women and Girls in Corrections Today

Difficulty Level: Medium

13. Explain the two main types of sexual harassment.

Learning Objective: 11-4: Discuss the challenges that female staff have overcome in corrections and how they did so.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Female Correctional Officers

Difficulty Level: Medium

14. Discuss whether or not you think female offenders should be treated differently than males by the correctional system.

Learning Objective: 11-2: Identify how the experience of female correctional clients differs from that of males.

Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Answer Location: Women and Girls in Corrections Today

Difficulty Level: Medium

15. Explain why it costs more money to incarcerate female offenders.

Learning Objective: 11-2: Identify how the experience of female correctional clients differs from that of males.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Women and Girls in Corrections Today

Difficulty Level: Medium