Deck 12: Women Offenders

Question 1

What proportion of women offenders admitted to custody are gang-affiliated?

A) 1 in 7
B) 1 in 8
C) 1 in 9
D) 1 in 10

Answer 1

1 in 10

Question 2

By what percentage has the number of women admitted to federal custody increased over the past decade?

A) 40%
B) 50%
C) 60%
D) 70%

Answer 2

40%

Question 3

By what percentage has the number of Indigenous women admitted to federal custody increased over the past decade?

A) 30%
B) 50%
C) 70%
D) 90%

Answer 3

90%

Question 4

Which report recommended changes in Canada's operations of women's corrections, which would enable a federally sentenced woman offender from Alberta to be incarcerated in-province instead of being incarcerated at the Kingston Prison for Women in Ontario?

A) Arbour Report
B) Creating Choices Report
C) Office of the Correctional Investigator Report
D) Report of the Deputy Commission for Women

Question 5

In what year did the Kingston Prison for Women close?

A) 1998
B) 2000
C) 2002
D) 2004

Question 6

Which report recommended that male correctional staff must leave the room while a woman inmate is strip-searched by women staff members?

A) Arbour Report
B) Creating Choices Report
C) Office of the Correctional Investigator Report
D) Report of the Deputy Commission for Women

Question 7

According to research, what prime factor is the single greatest cause of the "pains of imprisonment" for women offenders?

A) financial strain
B) separation from their children and families
C) drug and alcohol abuse/dependency
D) mental illness and instability

Question 8

What term describes the relationship when an inmate who is feeling lonely and isolated forms a tight bond with another inmate, and then a third inmate joins their group and they all maintain a close relationship?

A) love and lust syndrome
B) pseudo-family
C) sexual liaison facsimile
D) psycho-social bond

Question 9

By what percentage has the number of women in federal custody identifying as gang affiliates increased between 1997 and 2012?

A) 55%
B) 65%
C) 75%
D) 85%

Question 10

What correctional practice enables s federally sentenced woman offender to spend Easter weekend with her boyfriend and their two children in a building located on prison grounds?

A) conjugal visits
B) private family visits
C) the mother-child program
D) the inmate-family program

Question 11

Up to March 2012, what was the average length of a term of segregation for a woman in prison?

A) 5 days
B) 10 days
C) 15 days
D) 20 days

Question 12

Up to what age are children eligible for full-time residency with their incarcerated mothers in Canada's mother-child programs?

A) up to 2 years of age
B) up to 3 years of age
C) up to 4 years of age
D) up to 5 years of age

Question 13

Which behaviour, which is associated with women who are inmates and may have been established prior to incarceration, is considered a coping mechanism that allows a woman to exert personal control during a time of stress?

A) sexual promiscuity
B) fetal alcohol spectrum disorder
C) self-injurious behaviour
D) drug/alcohol addiction

Question 14

What did a recent in-depth study reveal about how the Correctional Service of Canada (CSC) responds to mental health issues among federally sentenced women (FSW)?

A) FSW with mental health problems are treated as risks.
B) The CSC gives sufficient attention to FSW's histories of abuse.
C) The CSC's mental health strategy focuses on FSW's treatment rather than assessment.
D) FSW with mental health issues are often under-classified, resulting in insufficient programming opportunities.

Question 15

What is the annual cost, per offender, of incarcerating federal women offenders?

A) $160,000
B) $180,000
C) $200,000
D) $220,000

Question 16

According to recent meta-analyses investigating the effectiveness of programs for incarcerated women, what were program participants significantly less likely to do?

A) reoffend
B) stay drug-free longer
C) relocate to urban areas
D) turn to prostitution to support themselves

Question 17

Which statement represents a major argument regarding the use of assessment instruments such as the LSI-R to assess the risk and needs of women offenders?

A) These instruments are suitable for woman prisoners.
B) These instruments are suitable for juvenile prisoners.
C) These instruments do NOT address woman's specific crime pathways.
D) These instruments do NOT work well and are being redesigned.

Question 18

According to several evaluations of gender-specific interventions targeting high-risk, high-need women offenders in Canada, which program/report introduced during a woman's entry into prison exposes her to intensive treatment interventions and may reduce reoffending?

A) Intake Referral Form
B) Analysis of a Female Inmate
C) Risk-Needs-Responsivity
D) Female Inmate Adaptation Report

Question 19

Which correctional program is designed to address the needs of a federally sentenced woman who has mental health issues, with the aim of encouraging and empowering her?

A) Intensive Intervention Strategy
B) Intensive Therapeutic Treatment
C) Intensive Behavioural Observation Healing
D) Intensive Needs Prevention and Maintenance Care

Question 20

According to Correctional Service Canada's research on the characteristics of women sexual offenders who entered federal custody between January 2001 and March 2010, which women were more likely to be undereducated, to present high risks and high needs, and to have histories of abuse?

A) Black women in their 30s
B) Asian women in their 20s
C) Middle Eastern women in their 20s
D) Caucasian women in their 30s

Question 21

What program offered by Correctional Service of Canada is designed to reduce crime and sexual reoffending by improving the women's coping strategies and by addressing trauma and physical health care and relationship issues?

A) Rehabilitation Counselling
B) Women's Sex Offender Program
C) Mother and Child Reunion Program
D) Psycho/cognitive Therapy

Question 22

What intake model has NOT been adhered to when Correctional Service Canada staff have offered a released woman offender skills training that does NOT interest her and she feels will NOT help her?

A) Risk-Needs-Responsivity
B) Employment Equity Assistance
C) Job Placement by Gender
D) A Helping Hand Up

Question 23

Which correctional treatment program is designed to encourage federally sentenced women to develop self-assuredness in their capabilities, powers, and decision-making?

A) Cognitive Skills for Women
B) Relationship Skills for Women
C) Emotions Management for Women
D) Behavioural Management for Women

Question 24

What is the estimated percentage of federal women offenders who will return to custody, either for a violation of release conditions or for having committed a new offence?

A) 20%
B) 30%
C) 40%
D) 50%

Question 25

What is one of the strongest predictors of women offenders' risk to reoffend?

A) substance abuse issues
B) criminal offence history
C) low educational achievement
D) a partner or spouse involved in criminal activity

Question 26

On October 19, 2007, 19-year-old Ashley Smith was found unconscious in her segregation cell at the Grand Valley Institution for Women and died later that day. The official cause of death was self-initiated asphyxiation (suicide). However, a Correctional Service of Canada report concluded that her death was accidental and the result of a desperate attempt for attention and interaction after she had been confined to isolation for many months. Describe some of the details of Smith's incarceration and the issues that were incorrectly dealt with by corrections staff that led to her death.

Question 27

List and describe some of the major issues surrounding the re-entry of the women offenders into society.