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CJ 2430 - Exam 1 Questions and Correct
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Clear, Cole, and Reisig describe some of the controversies, issues and
themes that arise in the study of corrections. These are divided into
two main areas:
Ans: managing the correctional organization and working with
offenders
The model for workhouses in England was:
Ans: bridewell
Which system of prison labor involved the occasional removal of
prisoners from the prison setting to a locale where labor was to be
performed and, as such, prisoners were provided with food, clothing,
and the raw materials for labor production:
Ans: lease system
Because different publics have different expectations on the goals of
corrections, administrators often:
Ans: offer conflicting goal statements to appease the differing
groups
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A payment of money as compensation for a wrong and designed to
prevent blood feuds was known as:
Ans: wergeld
What theoretical orientation believes that every effort should be made
to keep offenders in the community, and the use of community-based
corrections should be emphasized:
Ans: interactionist
Presumptive sentences are common in systems that emphasize:
Ans: determinate sentences
According to Lipsky, public service workers who interact directly with
citizens in the course of their work, granting access to government
programs and providing services within them, are known as low-level
bureaucrats.
Ans: false
Within the current American correctional system, on average,
convicted offenders typically serve 90 percent of the prison term set by
the sentencing judge.
Ans: true
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CJ 2430 - Exam 1 Questions and Correct
Answers/ Latest Update / Already Graded
Clear, Cole, and Reisig describe some of the controversies, issues and
themes that arise in the study of corrections. These are divided into
two main areas:
Ans: managing the correctional organization and working with
offenders
The model for workhouses in England was:
Ans: bridewell
Which system of prison labor involved the occasional removal of
prisoners from the prison setting to a locale where labor was to be
performed and, as such, prisoners were provided with food, clothing,
and the raw materials for labor production:
Ans: lease system
Because different publics have different expectations on the goals of
corrections, administrators often:
Ans: offer conflicting goal statements to appease the differing
groups
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A payment of money as compensation for a wrong and designed to
prevent blood feuds was known as:
Ans: wergeld
What theoretical orientation believes that every effort should be made
to keep offenders in the community, and the use of community-based
corrections should be emphasized:
Ans: interactionist
Presumptive sentences are common in systems that emphasize:
Ans: determinate sentences
According to Lipsky, public service workers who interact directly with
citizens in the course of their work, granting access to government
programs and providing services within them, are known as low-level
bureaucrats.
Ans: false
Within the current American correctional system, on average,
convicted offenders typically serve 90 percent of the prison term set by
the sentencing judge.
Ans: true
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