Correctional Alternatives Exam Bank
Course Introduction
This course explores the range of alternatives to traditional incarceration within the criminal justice system. Students examine the history, philosophy, and implementation of correctional alternatives such as probation, parole, community service, electronic monitoring, restorative justice programs, day reporting centers, and other community-based sanctions. Emphasis is placed on the effectiveness, challenges, and implications of these alternatives for offenders, victims, communities, and the broader goals of public safety and rehabilitation. The course also considers legal, ethical, and policy issues associated with non-custodial sanctions and encourages critical analysis of trends and innovations in correctional practices.
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Community Based Corrections A TextReader 1st edition by Shannon M. Barton-Bellessa
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Chapter 1: The Ethics of Community-Based Sanctions
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Q1) _______________ refers to one where a stimulus is applied to the offender when the offender commits an undesired behavior.
A) Positive reinforcers
B) Negative reinforcers
C) Positive punishment
D) Negative punishment
Answer: C
Q2) According to Steen and Bandy, _______________ models recognize crime control as the paramount goal of punishment.This type of reasoning does not privilege one form of punishment over another; rather, it advocates for punishment that most effectively and efficiently controls crime.
A) utilitarian
B) punishment
C) panopticon
D) acceptable penal content
Answer: A
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Chapter 2: What Influences Offenders' Willingness to Serve
Alternative Sanctions?
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Q1) According to Heck and Roussell, when designing, shifting, or revising a statewide drug court management plan, it is clear that state administrators, legislators, and judges must take a strategic approach and take the following into account:
A) Program management infrastructure must be considered carefully and include issues of staffing, data collection, management, and funding.
B) Guidelines must be incorporated to ensure adherence to the drug court model and the quality of services provided for program participants.
C) The judicial framework must be crafted in such a way as to allow drug court judges to maintain their status as independent arbiters of the law while serving in this new role.
D) All of the above
Answer: D
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Chapter 3: When the Policy Becomes the Problem
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Q1) _______________ is a process by which offenders are held partially or fully accountable for the financial losses suffered by the victims of their crimes.It is typically ordered for property crimes or crimes where something of value was stolen or procured, such as with fraud, forgery, or theft.These types of payments may also be used to reimburse victims of violent crime for expenses related to their physical and mental health recovery.
A) Community service
B) Monetary restitution
C) Direct service to victims
D) Family group conferences
Answer: B
Q2) _______________ is work performed by an offender for the benefit of the community as a component of the offender's sentence.It is one means by which the offender is held accountable and required to provide amends for the harm caused by his or her criminal conduct.
A) Community service
B) Monetary restitution
C) Direct service to victims
D) Family group conferences
Answer: B
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Chapter 4: The Impact of Gender and Race-Ethnicity in the
Pretrial Release Process
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Q1) Abadinsky (2003) noted that there are multiple key components practiced in social casework, which includes _______________; the implementation of the treatment plan.
A) assessment
B) evaluation
C) intervention
D) All of the above
Q2) Most treatment programs in the community tend to have more face-toFace contacts between treatment providers and participants because:
A) the offender has more options in making contact with helping professionals, and helping professionals have more latitude in aiding offenders since they are able to maintain contact at scheduled and unscheduled points of the day or night
B) prison treatment staff tend to be overloaded with demands from heavy caseloads and are hampered by the restrictions associated with the custodial environment
C) if the offender is not located within a criminogenic region of the community, they are less likely to have routine contact with other offendersffenders
D) All of the above
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Chapter 5: State Administration of Drug Courts
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Q1) A guideline for completing the Presentence Investigation Report (PSI), _______________, refers to PSI reporting officers verifying the facts contained in their report from some other source than the offender.If unverified information is included, it should be clearly designated as being unverified.It is important to note that unverified information can and does cause serious harm to the offender and also negatively impacts supervision and/or treatment programs in the future.
A) brevity
B) sources of information
C) technical words and phrases
D) style and format
Q2) According to Fass, Heilbrun, and Fretz, there is a large and growing literature with regard to risk factors that are related to anti-social behavior.
_______________risk factors are typically historical, unlikely to change, and not amenable to intervention efforts; dynamic factors, by contrast, may change over time.
A) static
B) dynamic
C) lethargic
D) constant
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Chapter 6: Restorative Practices in Instituttional Settings and
at Release
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Q1) According to your textbook authors, _______________ tends to exacerbate the underlying causes of criminal behavior.
A) prisonization
B) technical violations
C) reintegration
D) privatization
Q2) _______________ are criminal offenders who have been sentenced to a period of correctional supervision in the community in lieu of incarceration.
A) Probationers
B) Felons
C) Misdemeanants
D) Death row inmates
Q3) According to your textbook authors, one way of looking at the success of probation is by analyzing the _______________ rate.
A) recognizance
B) suspended sentence
C) recidivism
D) caseload delivery
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Chapter 7: The Effectiveness of Restorative Justice Practices
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Q1) According to Duwe and Kerschner, correctional boot camps first appeared in the United States in the early __________ in Oklahoma and Georgia.
A) 1960s
B) 1970s
C) 1980s
D) 1990s
Q2) With _______________, offenders are sentenced to a term of confinement
Only to be released after a set time and ordered to serve the remainder of their time on probation.The logic behind such action is that the offender will develop a natural dislike of incarceration and will seek to abstain from criminal behavior in hopes of avoiding such unpleasant incarceration.
A) split sentencing
B) shock incarceration
C) differential association
D) boot camp
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Chapter 8: A Quasi-Experimental Evaluation of Thinking for a Change
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Q1) The amount of restitution owed is based on _______________.
A) the monetary harm caused by property loss
B) loss incurred because of bodily injury
C) possibly lost wages
D) All of the above
Q2) In their own research, Padgett, Bales, and Blomberg found that:
A) EM works for serious offenders. This overall finding bodes well for EM's anticipated use for sex offenders and other, more serious, Offenders.
B) EM works equally well for all "types" of serious offenders, when offender type is defined as the category of the offender's primary offense (violent, property, or drug).
C) All of the above
D) None of the above
Q3) According to Bouffard and Mufti, community service (CS) emerged as an Alternative sanction in the United States in the __________.
A) 1950s
B) 1960s
C) 1970s
D) 1980s
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Chapter 9: Offender Coercion in Treatment: A
Meta-Analysis of Effectiveness
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Q1) _______________ use a great degree of both control and assistance techniques.They protect both the offender and the community by providing the offender with assistance, as well as praising and blaming.This type of officer can seem sporadic at times.These officers are ambivalent to the concerns of the offender or the community; this is just a job that they do.
A) Paternal officers
B) Punitive officers
C) Welfare workers
D) Passive agents
Q2) _______________ requires parolees to routinely report to their parole officer through personal contact, via mail, or by telephone.
A) Active supervision
B) Inactive supervision
C) Intensive supervision
D) In-house supervision
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Chapter 10: The LSI-R and the COMPAS:
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Q1) _______________is a regimented program of supervision that requires much greater supervision contact than regular probation and also serves as an alternative to incarceration while maintaining acceptable levels of public safety.
A) A residential treatment program
B) Juvenile Intensive Probation Supervision (JIPS)
C) pathway
D) A group home
Q2) _______________is also sometimes referred to as emotional abuse and includes actions or the omission of actions by parents and other caregivers that could cause the child to have serious behavioral, emotional, or mental impairments.
A) Child parentification
B) Physical abuse
C) Psychological abuse
D) Child neglect
Q3) Juvenile courts differ from adult courts in that:
A) These courts are informal in nature
B) Their legal basis is in civil law
C) They tend to have closed proceedings and do not usually have jury trials
D) All of the above
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Chapter 11: Can 14,737 Women Be Wrong?
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Q1) The _______________ is the most dangerous and the most likely to kill or permanently maim his victim.The primary desire of this offender is to cause pain to the victim.This offender will seek to express sexually aggressive fantasies that have formed from an extended history of the classically conditioned pairing of sexual excitement and violence.Indeed, graphic pairings such as that presented in "snuff " pornographic films are an integral part of their day-to-day thoughts and lifestyle in many cases.This offender derives ultimate pleasure when inflicting pain and psychological terror upon his victim.
A) power reassurance rapist
B) power assertive rapist
C) anger retaliation rapist
D) sadistic rapist
Q2) The _______________ approach is based on the idea that multiple dimensions of supervision are necessary to optimize public safety, and this therefore requires numerous actors within the criminal justice and community setting.
A) opportunistic
B) power assertive
C) pedophilia
D) containment
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