Deck 29: Prisons and Imprisonment

Question 1

If the period from the Second World War until the early 1970s represents the time in which the 'rehabilitative ideal' (Allen, 1981) was at its height, then the last 30 years, and the last ten in particular, have seen a fairly rapid shift in a more punitive direction.

Answer 1

True

Question 2

By way of contrast to Coyle what was Foucault's radical historical thesis in terms of the birth of the prison?

A)a shift in the governance of the prison leading to new forms of citizen surveillance and control
B)an end to overcrowding
C)prisoners would be set to work to make them more useful

Answer 2

a shift in the governance of the prison leading to new forms of citizen surveillance and control
prisoners would be set to work to make them more useful

Question 3

Which factors changed the public mood towards the death penalty in 1950s Britain?

A)A series of cases where the guilt of the offender was questioned
B)There were some cases where the appropriateness of the death penalty was called into question
C)some people confessed to crimes they had not committed

Answer 3

A series of cases where the guilt of the offender was questioned
There were some cases where the appropriateness of the death penalty was called into question

Question 4

According to Lord Woolf's recommendations, what are the three requirements which must be met if the prison system is to be stable?

A)security
B)control
C)good food
D)justice

Question 5

What special problems face women who are serving terms of imprisonment?

A)As they make up only 5% of the prison population there are few adapted facilities for them
B)they have high levels of self harming behaviour
C)they have high levels of history of abuse
D)they serve longer sentences than men

Question 6

Following a series of prison riots in the 1970s what did a Committee of Inquiry chaired by a High Court judge, Mr Justice May, recommend?

Question 7

What evidence is there that sentence length has increased over the past decade and a half?

Question 8

Why are suicide rates in prison so high?

Question 9

What are the main problems prisoners face on release?

Question 10

In Coyle's (2005) 'Whiggish' history, what were the two sources of the development to the modern prison?

A)prison reformers
B)the falling crime rate
C)the changing status of prison work

Question 11

What led to a brief decline in prison numbers in the late 1960s?

A)the introduction of parole
B)the falling crime rate
C)full-time employment

Question 12

From around 1993/94 any official attempt to reduce, or even to maintain a stable prison population was abandoned.

Question 13

By 2012 England and Wales was the highest incarcerator in Western Europe.

Question 14

Fewer first time burglars are likely to be imprisoned now than in the past.

Question 15

The UK has the highest incarceration rate in the world.

Question 16

What was the difference in numbers of the prison population between 1877 and 1918?

A)from 10,000 to 1,000
B)from over 30,000 to 9,000
C)from around 90,000 to 30,000

Question 17

What was emphasised as a consistent part of prisons policy - alongside other objectives - for the next 70 years following the Gladstone Report in1895?

A)rehabilitation
B)retribution
C)physical fitness

Question 18

In which year was it announced that the first purpose built psychiatric prison would be commenced?

A)1890s
B)1930s
C)1950s

Question 19

Due to some prison escapes in the 1960s what was the main recommendation made by the Mountbatten Committee?

A)prisoners should be shackled during exercise periods
B)that a system for categorising inmates should be introduced
C)that prisoners should be counselled more frequently

Question 20

Which organisations inspect prisons and report on the conditions in which prisoners live?