Deck 11: Special Populations: Offenders With Mental Health Problems, Sex Offenders, and Women Offenders

Question 1

The______assumes a defendant is not guilty by reason of insanity if, at the time of the alleged criminal act, he or she did not know that what she was doing was wrong.

A) Irresistible Impulse Test
B) Frendak Test
C) M'Naghten Rule
D) None of the Above

Answer 1

M'Naghten Rule

Question 2

______ is the act of sending sexually explicit messages or photographs, primarily between mobile phones.

A) Image Exposing
B) Sexting
C) Explicit Posting
D) None of the Above

Answer 2

Sexting

Question 3

______ an informal name for laws in the United States requiring law enforcement authorities to make information available to the public regarding registered sex offenders.

A) Mark's Law
B) Megan's Law
C) Polly's Law
D) Phil's Law

Answer 3

Megan's Law

Question 4

______ is a term used to suggest that criminals are physiological throwbacks to earlier stages of human evolution.

A) Deinstitutionalization
B) Devolution
C) Androgyny
D) ^Atavism

Question 5

During the colonial period of U.S. history, the care, treatment and control of persons with mental health illnesses were left almost exclusively to______.

A) their families
B) public psychiatric hospitals
C) private psychiatric hospitals
D) correctional facilities

Question 6

A Sunday school teacher at the East Cambridge Jail near Boston,______became one of the most famous and successful psychiatric reformers in American history when she began a crusade in 1841 on behalf of mentally ill people.

A) Anne Wilson
B) Dorothea Dix
C) Mary Worth
D) Anna Mays

Question 7

The number of mentally ill persons entering the criminal justice system is______.

A) slightly decreasing
B) becoming stagnate
C) increasing
D) greatly decreasing

Question 8

Police officers sometimes initiate a______to admit a mentally ill person to jail so that the person will receive food, shelter, and protection from victimization.

A) "mercy booking"
B) "psychiatric care order"
C) "civil subpoena "
D) None of the Above

Question 9

The______pardons defendants of culpability for a crime when they can distinguish right and wrong at the time of the crime but due to their mental disease or defect, they are incapable of controlling their actions.

A) Colorado v Hamlin Rule
B) Irresistible Impulse Test
C) Jasper v New York Rule
D) M'Naghten Rule

Question 10

______ refers to friends and family confronting an offender with the consequences of his or her offense and allowing the offender to express remorse as part of reintegrating into society.

A) Reintegrative shaming
B) Social stigmatizing
C) Labeling
D) None of the Above

Question 11

Under the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act (SORNA), Tier I Offenses require registration for______.

A) 5 years
B) 15 years
C) 25 years
D) a lifetime

Question 12

The state of______has the highest number of registered sex offenders in the United States.

A) Maine
B) Delaware
C) Texas
D) California

Question 13

The findings from the first national study of online sexual solicitation of children showed that nearly
______of children aged 10 to 17 had received at least one sexual solicitation the previous year.

A) 20%
B) 40%
C) 60%
D) 80%

Question 14

An interesting characteristics of women offenders is that arrests steadily______as age increases.

A) decrease
B) slightly increase
C) remain the same
D) dramatically increase

Question 15

Women's incarceration rates are increasing about______as fast as men's.

A) twice
B) three times
C) four times
D) five times

Question 16

Women who are incarcerated in prison tend to be______.

A) unemployed
B) poor
C) single mothers of young children
D) All of the Above

Question 17

Women entering community-based substance abuse treatment programs are less likely than men to be employed and are more likely to have experienced______abuse.

A) emotional
B) physical
C) sexual
D) All of the Above.

Question 18

______ is the process of replacing long-stay psychiatric hospitals with community mental health services for those diagnosed with mental disorders.

A) Devolution
B) Deinstitutionalization
C) Desistance
D) Atavism

Question 19

______ is a federal mandate codified under 42 U.S.C.16911 that requires U.S. jurisdictions to update their sex offender registration laws to conform to federal guidelines.

A) ^{Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act}
B) Sex Offender Civil Commitment Act
C) Intensive Parole for Sex Offenders Act
D) Sex Offender Risk-Containment Act

Question 20

In 1773, Eastern Lunatic Asylum was constructed in Williamsburg, Virginia, as the first institution to house persons with mental illnesses.

Question 21

Deinstitutionalization embraces the idea that people with mental illnesses and mental retardation could best be treated in the community rather than in institutions.

Question 22

Anti-psychotic medication, commonly known as thorazine, was considered the single biggest advancement in psychiatric treatment in the 1950s.

Question 23

Of the estimated 4.5 million Americans suffer from schizophrenia, manic-depression, and other severe forms of brain disorders, more than 95 percent receive treatment for their mental health problems on any given day.

Question 24

The Community Mental Health Centers Act (CMHCA) of 1963 provided federal funding for community mental health centers as an alternative to institutionalization.

Question 25

Presently, more persons with mental illnesses are confined to jails and prisons than are living in state mental hospitals.

Question 26

Evaluations of mental health courts have shown that most are ineffective in reducing recidivism.

Question 27

Mens rea refers to the state of mind of the offender at the time of the criminal offense.

Question 28

The insanity defense is a legal defense based on claims of mental illness or mental incapacity.

Question 29

Labeling Theory suggests that certain people are more likely than others to attain stigmatizing labels, such as deviant, criminal, or mentally ill, because these people are considered to be outsiders due to behavior or other kind of difference.

Question 30

The vast majority of sex offenders will never be released to communities.

Question 31

Of all the statutes governing consensual sexual conduct, adultery and fornication are the least likely to be enforced.

Question 32

In 1990, the state of Washington passed the nation's first modern Sexually Violent Predators (SVP) civil commitment law.

Question 33

Megan's Law encouraged states to expand their sex registries, making records available to the public and thereby incorporating an element of community notification.

Question 34

Per capita, the state of California has the most registered sex offenders in the United States.

Question 35

California became the first state to sanction either chemical or physical castration for certain sex offenders who were being released from prison into the community.

Question 36

As a group, women typically commit twice as many serious crimes than do men.

Question 37

As with men, women are most likely to be arrested while in their late 20s.

Question 38

Women's incarceration rates have continued to rise since the 1980s.

Question 39

A gender-specific problem that incarcerated women face is separation from their children.

Question 40

Children of inmates are five to six times more likely than their peers to become incarcerated themselves.

Question 41

The______Rule is a test for criminal insanity that assumes a defendant is not guilty by reason of insanity if, at the time of the alleged criminal act, he or she did not know that what she was doing was wrong.

Question 42

The process of replacing long-stay psychiatric hospitals with community mental health services for those diagnosed with mental disorders is known as______.

Question 43

______ was sentenced to five years probation for sexting and required by Florida law to register as a sex offender.

Question 44

______ was the first antipsychotic medication to dramatically improving the prognosis of patients in psychiatric hospitals worldwide.