CJUS PRACTICE EXAM QUESTIONS
WITH CORRECT ANSWERS
Which of the following statements describes a problem that results from the
implementation of selective incarceration?
a. There is not enough room in the nation's already overcrowded and understaffed
prisons.
b. Many individuals end up returning to committing crimes after being released.
c. The highest-risk offenders are often released inadvertently.
d. It is difficult to differentiate between who should remain incarcerated and who should
not. - Answer- Answer: D
It is difficult to differentiate between who should remain incarcerated and who should
not.
Punishment would probably work best for which of the following individuals?
a. an actively using drug addict who was arrested for petty larceny
b. a teacher who had a relationship with a 16-year-old student
c. a sociopath who has been treated for mental illness for much of his adult life
d. a teenager who has been neglected and abused for much of her life - Answer-
Answer: B
A teacher who had a relationship with a 16-year-old student
According to Austin and McVey, the prison population
a. is steadily decreasing.
b. will remain stable for the foreseeable future.
c. is rising at an alarming rate.
d. is rising at a moderate, but steady pace. - Answer- Answer: C
Is rising at an alarming rate
Which of the following is not a critical component of the rehabilitation ideology?
a. deterrence
b. education
c. treatment
d. indeterminate sentencing - Answer- Answer: A
Deterrence
,Following the rehabilitation ideology, a criminal diagnosed with schizophrenia would be
treated under which model?
a. educational
b. medical
c. indeterminate sentencing
d. reintegration - Answer- Answer: B
Medical
According to current ideologies, crime prevention begins
a. with parenting classes.
b. at work.
c. in school.
d. with a juvenile's first offense. - Answer- Answer: C
In school
The CIRV can best be described as a(n)
a. deviation.
b. production.
c. collaboration.
d. initiation. - Answer- Answer: C
Collaboration
A critical component of the prevention ideology is the
a. family.
b. environment.
c. prisons.
d. schools. - Answer- Answer: B
Environment
Sociologist Emile Durkheim believed that crime is
a. inevitable.
b. unfortunate.
c. avoidable.
d. situational. - Answer- Answer: A
Inevitable
Getting potential offenders the help they need outside of the justice system, through
other community agencies, is known as
a. restorative justice.
b. CIRV.
,c. getting tough on crime.
d. diversion. - Answer- Answer: D
Diversion
Which of the following ideologies did the justice system begin to embrace in the 1960s?
a. punishment
b. rehabilitation
c. prevention
d. restorative justice - Answer- Answer: B
Rehabilitation
Restorative justice is an avenue currently being explored because
a. none of the other ideologies are proving entirely successful.
b. victims of crimes have begun to complain that they do not have sufficient rights.
c. it has been the only ideology proven to inspire lasting change.
d. society is in desperate need for a more punitive approach with criminals. - Answer-
Answer: A
None of the other ideologies are proving entirely successful
BARJ is different from other methods of correction in that it works to
a. incapacitate criminals in order to help their victims recover faster.
b. punish the criminals in accordance with victims' wishes.
c. repair the damage that has been done to both victims and criminals.
d. build lasting relationships between offenders and their victims. - Answer- Answer: C
Repair the damage that has been done to both victims and criminals
Which of the following is not a true statement about restorative justice?
a. It provides more services for victims.
b. It builds community connections.
c. It repairs past damages done.
d. It keeps offenders out of the process. - Answer- Answer: D
It keeps offenders out of the process
Which of the following statements is true of the state of Corrections in the United States
as of the start of the 21st century?
a. Because prisons are overcrowded, Corrections is changing to take on a more
community-based, rehabilitative approach to treating the needs of criminals.
b. Although studies have proven the need for a more rehabilitative, community-based
system, Corrections is returning to a more retribution-centered approach.
c. Since Corrections has already unsuccessfully tried the punishment, rehabilitation, and
prevention theologies, it is now driving its efforts to the restorative justice philosophy.
, d. The field of corrections has finally established a reformative, rehabilitative, stable
approach to criminal justice and is eager to impart its new ideology. - Answer- Answer:
B
Although studies have proven the need for a more rehabilitative, community-based
system, Corrections is returning to a more retribution-centered approach.
Which of the following is one of the early institutions built in American that followed the
Quaker principles and ideas? - Answer- d.All of the above...
Newgate Prison,
Eastern Pennsylvania Prison
Walnut Street Jail
In what year did the American Prison Congress convene? - Answer- b. 1870
The separate system is part of which model? - Answer- a. Pennsylvania Model
The congregate system is part of which model? - Answer- b. New York system
Which early prison was built to hold inmates in complete solitary confinement, with no
labor, for the full span of their sentence? - Answer- b. Western Pennsylvania prison
To which early facility did inmates refer to as being sent "up the river"? - Answer- Sing
Sing Prison
In Beaumont and Tocqueville's outline, which prison did they consider to be even worse
than Walnut Street? - Answer- C. Pittsburgh
Which institution was also known as Cherry Hill? - Answer- d. Eastern Pennsylvania
Prison
Walnut Street Jail was a part of which prison system? - Answer- a. Pennsylvania Prison
system
Auburn prison was a part of which prison system? - Answer- b. New York Prison system
Western and Eastern prisons were a part of which prison system? - Answer- c.
Pennsylvania prison system
Sing Sing prison was a part of which prison system? - Answer- d. New York prison
system
Which New York Prison was most ambitious in reform efforts? - Answer- a. Elmira
Wich priosn was constructed in 1773 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania? - Answer- b.
Walnut Street Jail
WITH CORRECT ANSWERS
Which of the following statements describes a problem that results from the
implementation of selective incarceration?
a. There is not enough room in the nation's already overcrowded and understaffed
prisons.
b. Many individuals end up returning to committing crimes after being released.
c. The highest-risk offenders are often released inadvertently.
d. It is difficult to differentiate between who should remain incarcerated and who should
not. - Answer- Answer: D
It is difficult to differentiate between who should remain incarcerated and who should
not.
Punishment would probably work best for which of the following individuals?
a. an actively using drug addict who was arrested for petty larceny
b. a teacher who had a relationship with a 16-year-old student
c. a sociopath who has been treated for mental illness for much of his adult life
d. a teenager who has been neglected and abused for much of her life - Answer-
Answer: B
A teacher who had a relationship with a 16-year-old student
According to Austin and McVey, the prison population
a. is steadily decreasing.
b. will remain stable for the foreseeable future.
c. is rising at an alarming rate.
d. is rising at a moderate, but steady pace. - Answer- Answer: C
Is rising at an alarming rate
Which of the following is not a critical component of the rehabilitation ideology?
a. deterrence
b. education
c. treatment
d. indeterminate sentencing - Answer- Answer: A
Deterrence
,Following the rehabilitation ideology, a criminal diagnosed with schizophrenia would be
treated under which model?
a. educational
b. medical
c. indeterminate sentencing
d. reintegration - Answer- Answer: B
Medical
According to current ideologies, crime prevention begins
a. with parenting classes.
b. at work.
c. in school.
d. with a juvenile's first offense. - Answer- Answer: C
In school
The CIRV can best be described as a(n)
a. deviation.
b. production.
c. collaboration.
d. initiation. - Answer- Answer: C
Collaboration
A critical component of the prevention ideology is the
a. family.
b. environment.
c. prisons.
d. schools. - Answer- Answer: B
Environment
Sociologist Emile Durkheim believed that crime is
a. inevitable.
b. unfortunate.
c. avoidable.
d. situational. - Answer- Answer: A
Inevitable
Getting potential offenders the help they need outside of the justice system, through
other community agencies, is known as
a. restorative justice.
b. CIRV.
,c. getting tough on crime.
d. diversion. - Answer- Answer: D
Diversion
Which of the following ideologies did the justice system begin to embrace in the 1960s?
a. punishment
b. rehabilitation
c. prevention
d. restorative justice - Answer- Answer: B
Rehabilitation
Restorative justice is an avenue currently being explored because
a. none of the other ideologies are proving entirely successful.
b. victims of crimes have begun to complain that they do not have sufficient rights.
c. it has been the only ideology proven to inspire lasting change.
d. society is in desperate need for a more punitive approach with criminals. - Answer-
Answer: A
None of the other ideologies are proving entirely successful
BARJ is different from other methods of correction in that it works to
a. incapacitate criminals in order to help their victims recover faster.
b. punish the criminals in accordance with victims' wishes.
c. repair the damage that has been done to both victims and criminals.
d. build lasting relationships between offenders and their victims. - Answer- Answer: C
Repair the damage that has been done to both victims and criminals
Which of the following is not a true statement about restorative justice?
a. It provides more services for victims.
b. It builds community connections.
c. It repairs past damages done.
d. It keeps offenders out of the process. - Answer- Answer: D
It keeps offenders out of the process
Which of the following statements is true of the state of Corrections in the United States
as of the start of the 21st century?
a. Because prisons are overcrowded, Corrections is changing to take on a more
community-based, rehabilitative approach to treating the needs of criminals.
b. Although studies have proven the need for a more rehabilitative, community-based
system, Corrections is returning to a more retribution-centered approach.
c. Since Corrections has already unsuccessfully tried the punishment, rehabilitation, and
prevention theologies, it is now driving its efforts to the restorative justice philosophy.
, d. The field of corrections has finally established a reformative, rehabilitative, stable
approach to criminal justice and is eager to impart its new ideology. - Answer- Answer:
B
Although studies have proven the need for a more rehabilitative, community-based
system, Corrections is returning to a more retribution-centered approach.
Which of the following is one of the early institutions built in American that followed the
Quaker principles and ideas? - Answer- d.All of the above...
Newgate Prison,
Eastern Pennsylvania Prison
Walnut Street Jail
In what year did the American Prison Congress convene? - Answer- b. 1870
The separate system is part of which model? - Answer- a. Pennsylvania Model
The congregate system is part of which model? - Answer- b. New York system
Which early prison was built to hold inmates in complete solitary confinement, with no
labor, for the full span of their sentence? - Answer- b. Western Pennsylvania prison
To which early facility did inmates refer to as being sent "up the river"? - Answer- Sing
Sing Prison
In Beaumont and Tocqueville's outline, which prison did they consider to be even worse
than Walnut Street? - Answer- C. Pittsburgh
Which institution was also known as Cherry Hill? - Answer- d. Eastern Pennsylvania
Prison
Walnut Street Jail was a part of which prison system? - Answer- a. Pennsylvania Prison
system
Auburn prison was a part of which prison system? - Answer- b. New York Prison system
Western and Eastern prisons were a part of which prison system? - Answer- c.
Pennsylvania prison system
Sing Sing prison was a part of which prison system? - Answer- d. New York prison
system
Which New York Prison was most ambitious in reform efforts? - Answer- a. Elmira
Wich priosn was constructed in 1773 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania? - Answer- b.
Walnut Street Jail
