Criminal Justice Policy
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Course Introduction
Criminal Justice Policy examines the development, implementation, and impact of policies within the criminal justice system. The course explores how laws, regulations, and administrative decisions shape the behavior of law enforcement agencies, courts, and correctional institutions. Students analyze the policy-making process at local, state, and federal levels, considering both the intended and unintended consequences of policy choices. Emphasis is placed on critical evaluation of contemporary policy issues such as sentencing reform, drug policy, community policing, and alternatives to incarceration, while discussing the roles of political actors, public opinion, and advocacy groups in shaping outcomes.
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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) Based upon his review of both the proportionality of sanctions and the intrusiveness into the daily lives of individuals, Andrew von Hirsch devised what he termed the _______________.It is within this framework that he argued we should consider both custodial and noncustodial sanctions.
A) utilitarian
B) punishment
C) panopticon
D) acceptable penal content
Answer: D
Q2) _______________ are unpleasant stimuli that are removed when a desired behavior occurs.
A) Positive reinforcers
B) Negative reinforcers
C) Positive punishment
D) Negative punishment
Answer: B
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Chapter 2: What Influences Offenders' Willingness to Serve
Alternative Sanctions?
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Q1) Diversion from _______________ includes a variety of different sanctions, which can include suspending the sentence of offenders in lieu of probation, release on parole, early release, or other intermediate sanctions such as diversionary or specialized courts such as drug courts.
A) arrest
B) prosecution
C) jail
D) imprisonment
Answer: D
Q2) _______________ 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
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Chapter 3: When the Policy Becomes the Problem
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Q1) _______________ seeks to restore the victim and the community to its state of functioning prior to the criminal act, often involving numerous persons in the community in the reintegration of offenders and holding them accountable for their behavior.By bringing together victims, offenders, families, and other key stakeholders in a variety of settings, restorative justice helps offenders understand the implications of their actions and provides an opportunity for them to become reconnected to the community.
A) Restorative justice
B) Broken windows thesis
C) Community justice
D) Collective efficacy
Answer: A
Q2) Restorative justice considers the victims, communities, and offenders (in that order) as participants in the justice process.These participants are placed in active roles to work together to do the following:
A) Empower victims in their search for closure
B) Impress upon offenders the real human impact of their behavior
C) Promote restitution to victims and communities
D) All of the above
Answer: D
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Chapter 4: The Impact of Gender and Race-Ethnicity in the
Pretrial Release Process
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Q1) The key in distinguishing between reinforcers and punishments to keep in mind is that reinforcers are intended to increase the likelihood of a desired behavior whereas punishments are intended to decrease the likelihood of an undesired behavior.In _______________, the term positive refers to the addition of a stimulus rather than the notion that something is good or beneficial.Likewise, the term negative refers to the removal of a stimulus rather than being used to denote something that is bad or harmful.
A) prevention
B) treatment
C) reality therapy
D) operant conditioning
Q2) According to your textbook authors, Latessa, Cullen, and Gendreau (2002) noted that the lack of focus on treatment is often guided by what they referred to as "_______________."
A) penal insanity
B) correctional quackery
C) correctional fraud
D) penal charlatanism
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Chapter 5: State Administration of Drug Courts
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Q1) _______________ is seen as a way to connect clients with multiple needs to an increasingly complex social service delivery system.
A) Intake
B) Recidivism prediction
C) Case management
D) Actuarial risk-needs assessment
Q2) One method of assessment, the _______________ process of interviewing and observation, is an important yet less structured method of determining the security and treatment needs of the offender.This process entails the use of professionals who use their sense of judgment and experience to determine the offender's possible dangerousness, treatment needs, likelihood of responding to treatment, and their likelihood of escaping.
A) subjective assessment
B) objective assessment
C) risk-principled assessment
D) needs-principled assessment
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Chapter 6: Restorative Practices in Instituttional Settings
and at Release
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Q1) It wasn't until __________ that Massachusetts passed the first law providing for a paid probation officer.The passage of this law required the individual to report directly to the chief of police.
A) 1778
B) 1808
C) 1878
D) 1908
Q2) The issue of _______________ refers to the fact that many probation officers have few options for promotion and feel stuck in their current service capacity.
A) role identity confusion
B) lack of promotional opportunities
C) professional accountability
D) changing or conflicting policies and/or procedures
Q3) _______________ is the single most common form of sanction that is used in correctional systems throughout the nation.
A) Probation
B) Incarceration
C) Parole
D) The death penalty
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Chapter 7: The Effectiveness of Restorative Justice Practices
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Q1) 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
Q2) _______________ are a type of facility that is designed primarily for first-time and/or property offenders.These offenders are required to pay victim restitution and/or provide community service as a means of fulfilling their sentence.
A) Halfway houses
B) Community residential treatment centers
C) Restitution centers
D) Work release programs
Q3) Intermediate sanctions may involve residential facilities like _______________
A) restitution centers
B) work release centers
C) probation detention facilities
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) The use of _______________ to cover costs for programming, treatment, and institutionalization is becoming a more common practice as communities fight for the few resources available.They are used to reimburse the state or agency for administrative costs.
A) a fine
B) fees
C) forfeiture
D) A bill
Q2) _______________ are treatment facilities where offenders are required to report, usually on a daily basis.These facilities tend to offer a variety of services, including drug counseling, vocational assistance, life skills development, employment assistance, and so forth.
A) Global positioning system (GPS)
B) Home detention
C) Day reporting centers
D) Drug testing
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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, parole officers:
A) assumes responsibility for the proper maintenance of the offenders assigned to their caseload and is expected to ensure that offenders
Comply with the rules and regulations of their parole requirements
B) frequently make regular and special home visits to the offender's domicile
C) maintain an open line of communication with the law enforcement community in the area
D) All of the above
Q2) _______________ see themselves as needing to use threats and punishment in order to get compliance from the offender.These officers may also view the offender as a "lower class" of individual and are likely to see punitive methods of control as the only type of mechanism that the offender population will or can understand.They will likely have a morally judgmental view of their caseload.These officers will place the highest emphasis on control and protection of the public against offenders, and they will also be suspicious of offenders on their caseload.
A) Paternal officers
B) Punitive officers
C) Welfare workers
D) Passive agents
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Q1) According to Hubbard and Matthews, _______________ recognizes poor critical thinking and problem-solving skills as sources of maladaptive behavior.
A) cognitive-behavioral therapies
B) relational models
C) cognitive skills training
D) All of the above
Q2) When a juvenile court operates as its own separate statewide entity, this means that it will have its own _______________.
A) administrators and judges
B) probation officers
C) clerks of the court and other personnel
D) All of the above
Q3) _______________ can be defined as any physical acts that cause or can cause physical injury to a child.
A) Child parentification
B) Physical abuse
C) Psychological abuse
D) Child neglect
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Chapter 11: Can 14,737 Women Be Wrong?
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Q1) With _______________ sex offenders are injected with drugs (most commonly Depo-Provera) to reduce the amount of testosterone in the offender's body.This achieves the sex drive reduction of surgical castration but does not require the controversial surgery.
A) interrogation-oriented techniques
B) chemical castration
C) detoxification
D) self-help groups
Q2) _______________ refers to significantly subaverage general intellectual functioning existing concurrently with deficits in adaptive behavior and manifested during the developmental period.
A) Generalized anxiety disorder
B) Mental retardation
C) Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
D) Psychopathy
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