AMERICAN CORRECTIONS FINAL
EXAM STUDY GUIDE Q&A
Drug Court - Answer-A special court for people convicted of drug-abuse-related
crimes.
Continuum Of Sanctions - Answer-A range of correctional management strategies
based on the degree of intrusiveness and control over the offender, along which an
offender is moved based on his or her response to correctional programs.
Restitution - Answer-Compensation for financial, physical, or emotional loss caused
by an offender, in the form of either payment of money to the victim or to a public
fund for crime victims, as stipulated by the court.
Intensive Supervision Probation (ISP) - Answer-Probation granted with conditions of
strict reporting to a probation officer with a limited caseload.
Shock Incarceration - Answer-A short period of incarceration (the "shock"), followed
by a sentence reduction.
Boot Camp - Answer-A physically rigorous, disciplined, and demanding regimen
emphasizing conditioning, education, and job training. Designed for young offenders.
Custodial Model - Answer-A model of correctional institutions that emphasizes
security, discipline, and order.
Rehabilitation Model - Answer-A model of correctional institutions that emphasizes
the provision of treatment programs designed to reform the offender.
Reintegration Model - Answer-A model of correctional institutions that emphasizes
maintenance of the offender's ties to family and the community as a method of
reform, in recognition of the fact that the offender will be returning to the community.
Maximum-security Prison - Answer-A prison designed and organized to minimize the
possibility of escapes and violence; to that end, it imposes strict limitations on the
freedom of inmates and visitors.
Minimum-security Prison - Answer-A prison designed and organized to permit
inmates and visitors as much freedom as is consistent with the concept of
incarceration.
Inmate Code - Answer-A set of rules of conduct that reflects the values and norms of
the prison social system and helps define for inmates the image of the model
prisoner.
Prisonization - Answer-The process by which a new inmate absorbs the customs of
prison society and learns to adapt to the environment.
EXAM STUDY GUIDE Q&A
Drug Court - Answer-A special court for people convicted of drug-abuse-related
crimes.
Continuum Of Sanctions - Answer-A range of correctional management strategies
based on the degree of intrusiveness and control over the offender, along which an
offender is moved based on his or her response to correctional programs.
Restitution - Answer-Compensation for financial, physical, or emotional loss caused
by an offender, in the form of either payment of money to the victim or to a public
fund for crime victims, as stipulated by the court.
Intensive Supervision Probation (ISP) - Answer-Probation granted with conditions of
strict reporting to a probation officer with a limited caseload.
Shock Incarceration - Answer-A short period of incarceration (the "shock"), followed
by a sentence reduction.
Boot Camp - Answer-A physically rigorous, disciplined, and demanding regimen
emphasizing conditioning, education, and job training. Designed for young offenders.
Custodial Model - Answer-A model of correctional institutions that emphasizes
security, discipline, and order.
Rehabilitation Model - Answer-A model of correctional institutions that emphasizes
the provision of treatment programs designed to reform the offender.
Reintegration Model - Answer-A model of correctional institutions that emphasizes
maintenance of the offender's ties to family and the community as a method of
reform, in recognition of the fact that the offender will be returning to the community.
Maximum-security Prison - Answer-A prison designed and organized to minimize the
possibility of escapes and violence; to that end, it imposes strict limitations on the
freedom of inmates and visitors.
Minimum-security Prison - Answer-A prison designed and organized to permit
inmates and visitors as much freedom as is consistent with the concept of
incarceration.
Inmate Code - Answer-A set of rules of conduct that reflects the values and norms of
the prison social system and helps define for inmates the image of the model
prisoner.
Prisonization - Answer-The process by which a new inmate absorbs the customs of
prison society and learns to adapt to the environment.
