Offender Rehabilitation Final
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Course Introduction
Offender Rehabilitation explores the theories, methods, and practices aimed at reducing recidivism through the rehabilitation of individuals who have committed criminal offenses. The course examines historical and contemporary perspectives on punishment and reform, the efficacy of various intervention strategies, and the role of psychological, social, and legal factors in the rehabilitation process. Topics include assessment and classification of offenders, evidence-based treatment programs, restorative justice approaches, and the challenges faced by rehabilitation initiatives within correctional systems. Students will critically analyze case studies and evaluate the impact of rehabilitation policies on individuals and communities.
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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) _______________ is a form of behavioral modification that is based on the notion that certain environmental consequences occur that strengthen the likelihood of a given behavior and that other consequences tend to lessen the likelihood that a given behavior is repeated.
A) Operant conditioning
B) Probation
C) Reality therapy
D) Intensive supervision
Answer: A
Q2) _______________ are rewards for a desired behavior.
A) Positive reinforcers
B) Negative reinforcers
C) Positive punishment
D) Negative punishment
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 a type of reconciliation in which the offender and the victim meet in a supervised setting to determine how the offender can make restitution directly to the victim through the performance of some type of service.
A) Community service
B) Monetary restitution
C) Direct service to victims
D) Family group conferences
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) _______________, a principle of effective correctional intervention, refers to the assessment of offender risk using psychometric instruments of proven predictive validity. The assessment also takes into account the responsivity of offenders to different styles and modes of service.Changes in risk level over time are also routinely assessed.
A) Organizational culture
B) Program implementation/maintenance
C) Management/staff characteristics
D) Client risk/need practices
Q2) In describing rehabilitation as the primary function of probation and parole, Abadinsky (2003) noted that there is/are (a) basic theoretical model(s) for rehabilitation in probation and parole.These are:
A) the social casework model
B) the use of reality therapy
C) behavioral and/or learning theory
D) All of the above
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Chapter 5: State Administration of Drug Courts
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Q1) _______________ is the process that occurs when the offender is initially entered into the correctional system post-conviction.
A) Intake
B) Recidivism prediction
C) Case management
D) Actuarial risk-needs assessment
Q2) 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
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Chapter 6: Restorative Practices in Instituttional Settings
and at Release
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Q1) While administrators will be more removed from the rank-and-file probation officer staff, ________________ is/are thought to offset concerns related to this type of administration.
A) the uniformity of services
B) elimination of widespread disparity in supervision
C) the improved integration of services with other social service agencies
D) All of the above
Q2) _______________ probation systems are governed by laws and/or guidelines established by the state, which empowers a county to operate its own probation agency.
A) Juvenile
B) Municipal
C) County
D) State
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) _______________ is the short term of incarceration of an individual followed by a specified term of community supervision in hopes of deterring the offender from recidivating.These sentences usually range between 30 and 90 days with the judge reducing the original sentence and allowing the offender to be released into the community.
A) Split sentencing
B) Shock incarceration
C) Differential association
D) Boot camp
Q2) 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
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Chapter 8: A Quasi-Experimental Evaluation of Thinking for a Change
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Q1) The source(s) from which samples are drawn for drug testing includes:
A) Urine and blood
B) Hair
C) Sweat and saliva
D) All of the above
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 offender undergoing therapy in a day reporting center is immersed into a treatment regimen that accomplishes three key tasks:
A) The offender is supervised on a face-to-face basis
B) The offender is kept busy and thus cannot be out on the street offending
C) The offender is forced to comply with treatment and regardless of any inherent resistance, a certain amount of this will eventually be processed even if they are resistant
D) All of the above
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Chapter 9: Offender Coercion in Treatment: A
Meta-Analysis of Effectiveness
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Q1) The term _______________ refers to the personality of an organization.Just as an individual's personality tends to consist of behavioral tendencies, this defines and reinforces behaviors that are acceptable and fails to reinforce (or even perhaps punish) those that are not acceptable.Essentially, it defines how tasks are approached in a particular agency.
A) organizational culture
B) parole
C) residential treatment
D) incarceration
Q2) According to your textbook authors, among the parolee population, roughly 1 out of __________ are female offenders.
A) 6
B) 7
C) 8
D) 9
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Chapter 10: The LSI-R and the COMPAS:
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Q1) _______________ occur before age 12 and range from stubborn behavior to authority avoidance (e.g., truancy and running away).
A) Overt pathways
B) Covert pathways
C) Authority conflict pathway
D) All of the above
Q2) The _______________ stage includes the casework, surveillance, and various aspects of security management to track the behavior of the juvenile.This stage is, at least in the most basic terms, a key function of the probation department.
A) intake
B) investigation
C) supervision
D) All of the above
Q3) Juvenile courts fall into the following category/categories:
A) that of a separate court
B) a part of the family court
C) a component of the local trial court system
D) All of the above
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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 _______________ 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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