Criminal Justice Administration Final Exam
Course Introduction
Criminal Justice Administration explores the structure, functions, and processes of the criminal justice system, focusing on the coordination and management of law enforcement agencies, courts, and correctional institutions. The course examines the legal framework, ethical issues, and public policies that influence decision-making within the field, as well as the roles and responsibilities of administrators in fostering effective and equitable justice. Students will analyze challenges such as resource management, community relations, organizational behavior, and reform efforts, gaining a comprehensive understanding of leadership and best practices in the administration of criminal justice.
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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) The term _______________ involves activities, assignments, and routines that are designed to bring about behavior change in a systematic manner, resulting in goal-directed behavior toward the desired community supervision outcome.
A) evaluation
B) intervention
C) split sentencing
D) community corrections
Answer: B
Q2) The term _______________ refers to all non-incarcerating correctional sanctions imposed upon an offender for the purposes of reintegrating that offender within the community.
A) evaluation
B) intervention
C) split sentencing
D) community corrections
Answer: D
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Chapter 2: What Influences Offenders' Willingness to Serve
Alternative Sanctions?
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Q1) _______________ are designed to ensure that nonviolent mentally ill offenders are not warehoused in prisons; however, at the same time, the goal of these courts is to ensure that these offenders are not being a nuisance for the community.
A) Mental health courts
B) Drug courts
C) Reentry courts
D) Civil courts
Answer: A
Q2) Diversion from _______________ is also a pretrial mechanism to keep offenders out of the system.As reviewed in the previous discussion, offenders who have been summoned to court can await their trial date at home.This provides them with an opportunity to maintain gainful employment-if they have a job-and bonds to their community, which are especially important if children are present.
A) arrest
B) prosecution
C) jail
D) imprisonment
Answer: C
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Chapter 3: When the Policy Becomes the Problem
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Q1) According to Martha Henderson Hurley, victim wraparound programs are designed to extend the level of acknowledgment and responsibility of the offenders.Results of her study reveal that these programs are most effective with offenders serving long terms of incarceration. One explanation for this finding is that these offenders potentially have _______________, making the transition back into their community more difficult.
A) desensitized the crime
B) removed themselves from the offense
C) lost many contacts from their previous life
D) All of the above
Answer: D
Q2) _______________ theory holds that when individuals are labeled as criminals they will become stabilized in those roles, developing criminal identities that separate them from the mainstream population and exclude them from conventional roles.
A) Teen courts
B) Reintegrative shaming
C) Labeling
D) Environmental crime prevention
Answer: C
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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 gathering and analyzing relevant information upon which a treatment and a supervision plan should be based.
A) assessment
B) evaluation
C) intervention
D) All of the above
Q2) In spite of the fact that research continues to be conducted and a growing body of literature demonstrates the necessary principles for effective treatment, many communities still rely on programming such as _______________ that have no empirical support for their effectiveness.
A) punitive oriented programs (e.g., boot camps, scared straight)
B) control-oriented programs (e.g., intensive supervision)
C) non-intervention programs (e.g., labeling theory)
D) All of the above
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Chapter 5: State Administration of Drug Courts
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Q1) In _______________, the U.S.Supreme Court upheld the confidentiality of the PSI. This is largely due to the perception of the court that the presentence investigator is a neutral and detached party with no real vested interest in the punishment of the offender.
A) Williams v.New York
B) Plessy v. Ferguson
C) Gideon v. Wainright
D) Roe v. Wade
Q2) According to Fass, Heilbrun, and Fretz, _______________ risk factors may include impulsiveness, negative affect, psychosis, antisocial attitudes, current substance use, interpersonal relationship problems, and poor treatment compliance.
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) Some conditions of probation result in what are often called _______________; actions that do not comply with the conditions and requirements of a probationer's sentence, as articulated by the court that acted as thesentencing authority.They are not necessarily criminal, in and of themselves, and would likely be legal behaviors if the offender were not on probation.
A) prisonization
B) technical violations
C) reintegration
D) privatization
Q2) According to Alarid and Schloss, the "_______________" assumed that the continued growth in the correctional system ensures bureaucratic survival.By sentencing a steady supply of prisoners to longer terms of incarceration, the criminal justice system, along with the assistance of private vendors and politicians, ensures its own existence despite a decline in crime rates.
A) deterrence
B) retribution
C) prison-industrial complex
D) postmodernism theory
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Chapter 7: The Effectiveness of Restorative Justice Practices
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Q1) According to your textbook authors, there are actions that administrators can take to increase the chances of success of intermediate sanctions in their jurisdictions.These include:
A) Articulating precisely why a jurisdiction needs intermediate sanctions
B) Establish clear sanctioning goals: referred to as the why of sentencing
C) Making available a continuum of sanctions scaled around one or more sanctioning goals
D) All of the above
Q2) A _______________ is typically designed to use some form of strict discipline with rehabilitative measures.
A) split sentencing
B) shock incarceration
C) differential association
D) boot camp
Q3) Typically, within residential facilities, staff will tend to play the following role(s):
A) the security
B) the treatment role
C) the auxiliary and/or support role
D) All of the above
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Chapter 8: A Quasi-Experimental Evaluation of Thinking for a Change
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Q1) According to Padgett, Bales, and Blomberg, in 1983, _______________ became the first state to legislate and implement a statewide home confinement program specifically designed to address the problem of exponential increases in prison admissions and the need for intermediate sanctions as an alternative to incarceration.
A) California
B) Texas
C) Florida
D) New York
Q2) According to your textbook authors, Ruback and Bergstrom (2006) argued there is/are (s) distinct reason(s) for the use of economic sanctions:
A) To punish offenders
B) To deter future criminal offending
C) To restore justice principles
D) All of the above
Q3) The idea of community service began as one of _______________.
A) retribution
B) rehabilitation
C) deterrence
D) incapacitation
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Chapter 9: Offender Coercion in Treatment: A
Meta-Analysis of Effectiveness
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Q1) According to your textbook authors, among the parolee population, roughly 1 out of __________ are female offenders.
A) 6
B) 7
C) 8
D) 9
Q2) During the 1600s and 1700s, England implemented a form of punishment known as (the)_______________ on a widespread scale.During this time, criminals were sent to the American colonies under reprieve and through stays of execution.Thus, the convicts had their lives spared, but this form of mercy was generally only implemented to solve a labor shortage that existed within the American colonies.
A) ticket-of-leave
B) banishment
C) mark system
D) chain gang
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Q1) In helping the child, the juvenile courts emphasize _______________, which, as noted earlier in this section, contrasts with the formal and adversarial nature of the adult court.
A) Parens patriae
B) Juvenile probation
C) Social study
D) Informality
Q2) _______________ is a facility that offers a combination of substance abuse and mental health treatment services while youth are kept under 24-hour supervision in a highly structured and secure environment.
A) A residential treatment program
B) Juvenile Intensive Probation Supervision (JIPS)
C) pathway
D) A group home
Q3) _______________ are factors that have a high likelihood of leading to delinquent behavior.
A) Risk factors
B) Protective factors
C) Fear factors
D) Hazard factors
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Chapter 11: Can 14,737 Women Be Wrong?
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Q1) The process of _______________ requires that the offender shift his thoughts to aversive imagery.The sex offender may be allowed to view or think about some arousing image but then is trained to think about something aversive, like an approaching police officer.
A) thought-stopping
B) though-shifting
C) impulse-charting
D) All of the above
Q2) The _______________ rapist demonstrates neither strong sexual nor aggressive features but engages in spontaneous rape when an opportunity presents that makes it look like an easy prospect.This form of rape is usually conducted during the commission of another crime, such as robbery or burglary.
A) opportunistic
B) power assertive
C) pedophilia
D) containment
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