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Corrections Management provides an in-depth examination of the organization and administration of correctional institutions, focusing on the roles and responsibilities of managers and administrators within prisons, jails, and community-based corrections. The course explores leadership theories, operational procedures, staff supervision, resource allocation, policy development, legal considerations, and ethical challenges unique to correctional settings. Students will analyze contemporary issues such as overcrowding, inmate rights, rehabilitation and reentry programs, and the impact of technology on corrections management, preparing them for effective decision-making and leadership within the correctional system.
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Justice Administration Police Courts and Corrections Management 8th Edition by Ken J. Peak
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Chapter 1: The Study and Scope of Justice Administration
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Q1) The part of the criminal justice process that the U.S.public sees the least of and knows the least about is:
A) the courts.
B) the police.
C) victims' rights advocates.
D) corrections.
Answer: D
Q2) In the United States,a comprehensive analysis and overview of policy on crime has been accomplished,therefore making policy related to the reduction of crime an exact process.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q3) ______________ exists among the components of the process,within the individual components,among political jurisdictions,and among persons.
Answer: fragmentation
Q4) According the due process model,police powers should be limited to prevent
Answer: oppression
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Chapter 2: Organization and Administration Principles and Practices
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Q1) Trait theory has lost much of its support since the 1950s,primarily because of the development and growth of new,more sophisticated approaches to the study of leadership.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q2) ___________ __________is preferred as a medium for dealing with citizens or groups outside the criminal justice agency.This means of communication provides the greatest protection against the growing number of legal actions taken against agencies by activists,citizens,and interest groups.
Answer: Written communication
Q3) An organization's committing such resources as funds,personnel/labor,and equipment toward accomplishing a goal or mission.
A) Planning
B) Reorganization
C) Inputs
D) Outputs
Answer: C
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Chapter 3: Rights of Criminal Justice Employees
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Q1) The Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA)applies to all public agencies,including state,local,local schools,and private sector employers with 75 or more employees.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q2) Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)of 1990 applies to all of the following agencies,except:
A) the ATF
B) state government agencies.
C) local government agencies.
D) the FBI
E) Both A and D.
Answer: E
Q3) List and describe the four elements of a due process claim set forth by the U.S.Supreme Court under Title 42 U.S.C.Section 1983.
Answer: (1)A person acting under color of state law (2)deprived an individual (3)of constitutionally protected property (4)without due process of law
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Chapter 4: Police Organization and Operation
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Q1) The patrol function is often called the ____________of policing and is the primary line element.
A) non-essential element
B) departmental optional division
C) sole function
D) backbone
E) None of the above
Q2) Community-oriented policing and problem solving is a philosophy,management style,and organizational strategy that promotes __________ problem solving.
A) reactive
B) conditional
C) guided
D) selective
E) None of the above
Q3) Administrative intensity organizations refer to those that are typically more bureaucratic in structure.
A)True
B)False
Q4) The acronym S.A.R.A.stands for Scanning,Analysis,Response,and _____________.
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Chapter 5: Police Personnel Roles and Functions
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Q1) Which of the following is not one of the three basic skills that executives must develop?
A) Technical
B) Conceptual
C) Human
D) Authoritarian
Q2) Police agencies have stopped using social networking sites to perform background checks.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Traditionally,the job tenure of police chiefs has been __________.
Q4) List the "Ten Commandments" of good executive leadership and briefly describe each.
Q5) The executive's role that includes figurehead,leadership,and liaison duties is:
A) liaison.
B) spokesperson.
C) interpersonal.
D) leadership.
Q6) Describe how police agencies are using social networking sites to perform background checks.
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Chapter 6: Police Issues and Practices
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Q1) Use-of-force continuums have not evolved and are therefore discredited and not useful.
A)True
B)False
Q2) According to the FBI,______________ is the unlawful use of force against persons or property to intimidate or coerce a government,the civilian population,or any segment thereof,in furtherance of political or social objectives.
Q3) The fusion center coordinates all response and counter-terrorism elements within a community.
A)True
B)False
Q4) After 9/11,the ___________ area of change occurred in police agency internal organizational structure,and the __________ area of change occurred in larger metropolitan agencies.
A) less common / only
B) less common / most common
C) most common / less common
D) most common / absent
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Chapter 7: Court Organization and Operation
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Q1) Which of the following is not one of the four cultural orientations that were found to shape the conduct and performance of the nation's state trial courts?
A) Communal
B) Hierarchical
C) Networked
D) Dependency
Q2) State supreme courts typically use traveling panels of justices to sit,hear cases,and render decisions.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The court(s)in ______ was dealing with premeditated homicides in the fourth century B.C.
A) China
B) Athens
C) Greece
D) Persia
E) Both B and C
Q4) In what ways are courts "hallowed" and unique in our society in terms of their decor and required decorum?
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Chapter 8: Court Personnel Roles and Functions
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Q1) Former Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor argued against partisan elections for judgeships,because of the risk of their being compromised by campaign funds they must raise.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Today's court administrators perform all but which of the following duties?
A) Training for staff
B) Polling the jury
C) Preparation of court budgets
D) Managing equipment
Q3) The _________________ has been moved to offer guidelines to address the question concerning judges' use of electronic social media (ESM)sites.
Q4) The American Judicature Society argues for limiting the role of politics in the selection of state judges.
A)True
B)False
Q5) The court administrator concept has its roots in early Germany.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 9: Court Issues and Practices
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Q1) Juveniles cannot be tried as adults.
A)True
B)False
Q2) A major social problem that prison administrators felt would deal a devastating blow to their inmate populations,but which never materialized,involved:
A) AIDS/HIV.
B) smallpox. C) polio. D) malaria.
Q3) A contributing factor to case delay in our courts is that there is little incentive to process cases speedily.
A)True
B)False
Q4) The Ruffin court even declared inmates to be "________ ___ ____ ________" mentioned earlier,losing all their citizenship rights,including the right to complain about living conditions.
Q5) There are now about 30 supermax prisons in the United States.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 11: Corrections Personnel Roles and Functions
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Q1) Discuss which probation administrator's style you believe would be the most effective in motivating probation officers and managing probationers at the same time.Explain your answer.
Q2) ____________ _________ supervise convicted offenders whom the courts have allowed to remain at liberty in the community.
Q3) Which of the following is not a duty of parole and probation officers?
A) Visiting offenders' workplaces
B) Visiting offenders' homes
C) Informing offenders that he or she is recommending revocation of probation/parole
D) Informing offenders that the officer is carrying a weapon
Q4) "People worker" type correctional officers work only in protective custody.
A)True B)False
Q5) Jails represent the ___________ _______ ___________into the criminal justice system.
Q6) Most prison wardens are male,30 years of age,and African American.
A)True
B)False
Q7) What are the primary roles of jail administrators?
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Chapter 12: Corrections Issues and Practices
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Q1) Returning the facility back to normal operations at the conclusion of a disturbance is also a major priority,and includes all but which of the following?
A) Searching for contraband, securing inmates, assessing damages, counting inmates, providing medical care to hostages and inmates, and collecting evidence for future prosecutions
B) Providing continued support and counseling to staff in coping with their experiences, repairing damage to facilities, normalizing institutional operations
C) Undertaking a thorough investigation of the causes of the crisis
D) Relocating all disruptive inmates who were involved to other state prisons
Q2) As part of the Prison Rape Elimination Act of 2003,the U.S.Department of Justice's Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS)was mandated to develop a new national ________ ________effort on the incidence and prevalence of sexual assault in correctional facilities.
Q3) In the past,most prison systems never used a highly subjective system of classifying inmates.
A)True
B)False
Q4) What are the major arguments for and against inmates being issued condoms?
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Chapter 13: Ethical Considerations
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Q1) Deception has long been practiced by police.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Shakedowns of suspects are typically about greed.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Police agencies are encouraged to review all officers' ___________ ________ to determine if any of them has a disciplinary history that would seriously impeach his or her credibility as a witness.
Q4) _____________ are complimentary gifts of money,services,or something of other value given by one party to another.
Q5) Compare the characteristics of absolute ethics and relative ethics.What are the applications of each in the criminal justice system? Give examples to illustrate the applications.
Q6) One judge,who teaches judicial ethics at the National Judicial College,stated that most judges attending the college admit never having read the ABA's Model Code of _______ ___________before seeking judicial office.
Q7) How may corrections officers be unethical?
Q8) The term _____________ is rooted in the ancient Greek idea of character.
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Chapter 14: Special Challenges Labor Relations, liability, and Discipline
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Q1) A special relationship can be based on:
A) whether the officer could have foreseen that he was expected to take action in a given situation to prevent injury.
B) departmental policy or guidelines that prohibit a certain course of action.
C) the spatial and temporal proximity of the defendant-officer behavior to the injury damage.
D) All of the above
Q2) Rojek et al.found that the majority of complaints against police officers fall under all but which of the following categories?
A) Verbal abuse
B) Ethnic slurs
C) Harassment
D) Excessive force
Q3) An example of proximate cause liability is where an officer unknowingly leaves the scene of an accident where there is spilled oil,and does not properly warn motorists.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 15: Financial Administration
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Q1) To help weather the financial storm and become more fiscally solvent and independent,judges and court administrators have increasingly become more involved in _________ __________.
Q2) Given recent budget cuts,more and more prisoners are given longer sentencing terms and prison populations explode.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The key characteristic of a _______________ budget is that it relates the volume of work to be done to the amount of money spent.
Q4) By 2009,more than half (26)of the states had slashed their prison funding.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Which of the following are effects on state courts' budgets by fiscal exigencies?
A) Salary freezes
B) Cutting salaries
C) Closing courts completely
D) All of the above
Q6) Describe the line-item budget format and its strengths and weaknesses.
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Q1) What are some of the advantages and disadvantages involving the use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs)as used in law enforcement?
Q2) ________________in correctional facilities refers to the use of telecommunications technology to remotely diagnosis and treat inmates medical needs.
Q3) All of the following has been cited as a positive uses of mini tablets by prison inmates,except:
A) it allows inmates to plot escapes.
B) it allows inmates to keep up with technological advances.
C) it allows inmates to better connect with family and friends on the outside.
D) it allows for inmates to establish positive ties to their communities.
E) it allows for better educational opportunities.
Q4) The Courts and Law Enforcement Management Information Systems (CLEMIS)Consortium system includes data sets for all but the following:
A) arrestees.
B) citations.
C) parolees.
D) sex offenders.
E) All are included in the system.
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