Deck 17: Corrections

Question 1

Which of the following aims to change the factors within an individual that led him or her to commit the crime in the first place?

A)Retribution
B)Deterrence
C)Incapacitation
D)Rehabilitation

Answer 1

D

Question 2

The prison system in Australia has been expanding rapidly.Why is this so?

Answer 2

Responses could include:
-December 2017, the average daily imprisonment in Australia was 41 110.
-This is more than double the number of prisoners just 20 years prior.
-3.5 times higher than 30 years ago.
-Nearly five times higher than 40 years ago.
-Rates are increasing regardless of the relative incidence of crime.
-Policy choices rather that crime rates have a greater influence on imprisonment rates.
-Policy makers have become increasingly punitive in recent years.
-Politicians want to appear to be tough on crime (particularly around election times).

Question 3

What are responsivity considerations?

Answer 3

Answers should include: Responsivity considerations are those factors that may help or hinder the individual's response to correctional practices.There is general responsivity (treatment modalities) and specific responsivity (factors that are unique to each individual offender).

Question 4

Outline the characteristics of offenders in Australian prisons.

Question 5

What does the term 'remand' refer to? What are some of issues related to holding people on remand?

Question 6

What is community corrections? Give examples.

Question 7

Critics of have argued that prisons debilitate rather than rehabilitate offenders.What evidence is there to support this claim?

Question 8

Which of the following can be specific or general?

A)Retribution
B)Deterrence
C)Incapacitation
D)Rehabilitation

Question 9

Which of the following is when the staff member has insufficient information about how to perform his or her job?

A)Role conflict
B)Role ambiguity
C)Role overload/underload
D)Role constriction

Question 10

Cesare Beccaria and Jeremy Bentham argued that punishment should be severe, even more so than is necessary, in order to discourage further offending.

Question 11

Most people who are detected committing crimes in Australia are dealt with by non-custodial measures.

Question 12

Which of the following is when a staff member cannot exercise as much authority as desired?

A)Role conflict
B)Role ambiguity
C)Role overload/underload
D)Role constriction

Question 13

What is also called 'just deserts'?

A)Retribution
B)Deterrence
C)Incapacitation
D)Rehabilitation

Question 14

Which of the following can be selective or collective?

A)Retribution
B)Deterrence
C)Incapacitation
D)Rehabilitation

Question 15

Which Australian state/territory has the largest imprisonment rate?

A)Queensland
B)New South Wales
C)Western Australia
D)Northern Territory
E)Victoria

Question 16

What is 'recidivism'? What does the research reveal about recidivism?

Question 17

What is meant by 'net widening' as used by Worrall (2009)?