CCJS Final Exam questions well
answered graded A+
Enlightenment - correct answer ✔✔A movement during the eighteenth century in England and
France in which concepts of liberalism, rationalism, equality, and individualism dominated social
and political thinking
Penitentiary Act of 1779 - correct answer ✔✔called for the creation of a house of hard labor
where offenders would be imprisoned for up to two years
Four principles:
1. A secure and sanitary building
2. Inspection to ensure that offenders followed the rules
3. Abolition of the fees charged offenders for their food
4. A reformatory regime
Pennsylvania System - correct answer ✔✔separate confinement
New York System - correct answer ✔✔separate confinement at night, congregate system during
day: inmates worked together in silence
Elmira Reformatory - correct answer ✔✔The first reformatory in the United States; it opened in
1876 and used the principles of the Irish system, indeterminate sentences, and parole.
Rehabilitation model - correct answer ✔✔a model of corrections that emphasizes the need to
restore a convicted offender to a constructive place in society through some form of vocational
or educational training or therapy
, Community Model - correct answer ✔✔a model of corrections based on the goal of
reintegrating the offender into the community
Crime control model - correct answer ✔✔PUNISHMENT, a model of corrections based on the
assumption that criminal behavior can be controlled by more uses of incarceration and other
forms of strict supervision
Prisons for women - correct answer ✔✔8% in system are women
growth rate is more than men
more isolated prison conditions
war on drugs
reform started with ELIZABETH FRY - separation of men and women, meet needs of women -
medical, employment, maternal, female staff must exist
Jails vs. Prisons - correct answer ✔✔jails hold pretrial detainees and sentenced misdemeanants,
prisons hold people convicted of serious crimes (usually felonies)
Federal Bureau of Prisons vs. state corrections - correct answer ✔✔Federal Bureau is
CENTRALIZED and controls federal prisons across the country; state prisons are DECENTRALIZED
and each state does it differently
Hands-off policy - correct answer ✔✔Judges should not interfere with the administration of
correctional institutions
Correctional Policy trends - correct answer ✔✔Increased correctional budgets
Tougher sentences and policies
War on drugs; War on Terrorism
Custodial model - correct answer ✔✔most restrictive, emphasizes security, discipline, and order
answered graded A+
Enlightenment - correct answer ✔✔A movement during the eighteenth century in England and
France in which concepts of liberalism, rationalism, equality, and individualism dominated social
and political thinking
Penitentiary Act of 1779 - correct answer ✔✔called for the creation of a house of hard labor
where offenders would be imprisoned for up to two years
Four principles:
1. A secure and sanitary building
2. Inspection to ensure that offenders followed the rules
3. Abolition of the fees charged offenders for their food
4. A reformatory regime
Pennsylvania System - correct answer ✔✔separate confinement
New York System - correct answer ✔✔separate confinement at night, congregate system during
day: inmates worked together in silence
Elmira Reformatory - correct answer ✔✔The first reformatory in the United States; it opened in
1876 and used the principles of the Irish system, indeterminate sentences, and parole.
Rehabilitation model - correct answer ✔✔a model of corrections that emphasizes the need to
restore a convicted offender to a constructive place in society through some form of vocational
or educational training or therapy
, Community Model - correct answer ✔✔a model of corrections based on the goal of
reintegrating the offender into the community
Crime control model - correct answer ✔✔PUNISHMENT, a model of corrections based on the
assumption that criminal behavior can be controlled by more uses of incarceration and other
forms of strict supervision
Prisons for women - correct answer ✔✔8% in system are women
growth rate is more than men
more isolated prison conditions
war on drugs
reform started with ELIZABETH FRY - separation of men and women, meet needs of women -
medical, employment, maternal, female staff must exist
Jails vs. Prisons - correct answer ✔✔jails hold pretrial detainees and sentenced misdemeanants,
prisons hold people convicted of serious crimes (usually felonies)
Federal Bureau of Prisons vs. state corrections - correct answer ✔✔Federal Bureau is
CENTRALIZED and controls federal prisons across the country; state prisons are DECENTRALIZED
and each state does it differently
Hands-off policy - correct answer ✔✔Judges should not interfere with the administration of
correctional institutions
Correctional Policy trends - correct answer ✔✔Increased correctional budgets
Tougher sentences and policies
War on drugs; War on Terrorism
Custodial model - correct answer ✔✔most restrictive, emphasizes security, discipline, and order
