Deck 23: Corrections

Question 1

Provide a brief history (1-2 pages) of the John Howard Society and explain its role in the correctional services system and in your community.

Answer 1

No Answer

Question 2

Provide a brief history (1-2 pages) of Elizabeth Fry Society and explain its role in the correctional services system and in your community.

Answer 2

No Answer

Question 3

Provide a brief history (1-2 pages) of St. Leonard's House and explain its role in the correctional services system and in your community.

Answer 3

No Answer

Question 4

Provide a brief history (1-2 pages) of the Salvation Army's specific role in the correctional system and in your community.

Question 5

Explain how a "sentencing circle" occurs. How is it organized and what is its purpose?

Question 6

Find the statistics for offenders for your region. Which of the trends and challenges identified in your textbook seem to be represented in the statistics?

Question 7

Discuss one of the following issues: (a) drugs and drug abuse in the prison system, (b) HIV/Aids amongst prison inmates, (c) Hepatitis C in the prison system, or (d) aging inmates. Use a social work journal article and two current newspaper or media sources in your discussion.

Question 8

Define maximum, medium and minimum-security systems and identify the location of the each system serving your municipality.

Question 9

What is parole? Provide the three criteria in granting parole.

Question 10

Identify three problems facing the correctional system today.

Question 11

What two types of parole are available?

Question 12

What issues should be noted about First Nations Offenders?

Question 13

Identify and discuss three issues that might be particularly relevant for women offenders.

Question 14

Until the 1950s, programs in penitentiaries usually included

A) Licence plate manufacturing
B) Agricultural work
C) Manufacturing shoes
D) All of the above
E) None of the above

Question 15

Community program alternatives have expanded to include

A) Use of probation
B) Community service orders
C) Victim-offender reconciliation programs
D) All of the above
E) None of the above

Question 16

Community-based policing identifies the following as factors in crime and social order problems:

A) Lack of sufficient police for each neighbourhood
B) Lack of community support
C) Lack of sufficient visible minority police officers
D) Poverty, neglect, unemployment and abuse
E) None of the above

Question 17

Some governments in Canada are considering

A) Privatization
B) Turning the whole system over to the provincial and territorial governments
C) Integrating males and females in the prison system
D) A and B above
E) None of the above

Question 18

In maximum security institutions

A) Most of the prison population is housed
B) Offenders' movements are flexible
C) Offenders' association with others are restricted
D) All of the above
E) None of the above

Question 19

There are five women's centres for federally sentenced women, which

A) Stress that programs should match women's needs
B) Fit women into existing programs
C) Offer more and varied programs than men offenders
D) All of the above
E) None of the above

Question 20

Day parole

A) Is used to prepare offenders for full parole
B) Allows the offender to live in the community
C) Is used to prepared offenders for statutory release
D) A and C above
E) None of the above

Question 21

The following are trends and challenges in the correctional system:

A) Integrated correctional facilities
B) Increase in the demand for health care owing to longer sentences
C) Decrease in the need for women's services
D) Decrease in the number of young offenders
E) C and D above

Question 22

First Nations offenders are

A) Underrepresented in the prison system
B) More likely to receive full parole
C) Have lower recidivism rates
D) Overrepresented in the criminal justice system
E) None of the above

Question 23

In the coming years corrections in Canada will be faced with

A) Increasing numbers of young offenders entering the adult system
B) Increasing numbers of women
C) A greater number of persons with mental health problems because of the decrease in resources to mental health services
D) An increase in demands on health care because of longer sentences and an increase of admissions for offences committed 15 to 20 years ago
E) All of the above

Question 24

The number of offenders with contagious diseases will increase in the coming years.

Question 25

Women prisoners have very similar issues and needs as males.

Question 26

First Nations offenders are more likely to receive full parole.

Question 27

Persons sentenced to less than two years serve their sentence in municipal jails.

Question 28

Persons sentenced to two years or more serve their sentence in federal penitentiaries.

Question 29

Government officials have attempted to satisfy public opinion with the development of community notification programs.

Question 30

Public opinion has shifted toward more concern about law and order in the past decade of the twentieth century.

Question 31

The shift in public opinion has led to lower incarceration rates and shorter sentences.

Question 32

Some governments in Canada are considering the idea of privatizing some of their prison capacity.

Question 33

Maximum-security systems are for offenders who are considered a risk to staff, to other offenders, or to the community.