Deck 13: Correctional Professionals: Misconduct and Responses

Question 1

Souryal refers to acts that violate authority as:

A) acts of malfeasance
B) acts of nonfeasance
C) acts of unfeasance
D) acts of feasance

Answer 1

A

Question 2

Souryal's corruption typology includes all of the following categories except:

A) arbitrary use of power
B) oppression and failure to demonstrate compassion/caring
C) abusing authority for personal gain
D) mismanagement of prison resources

Answer 2

D

Question 3

Which of the following statements about women in prison is false?

A) Until the mid 1800s, female prisoners were housed together with men in jails
B) Only non-consensual staff-inmate sex is considered unethical
C) In the mid-1970s female officers challenged the hiring patters of state prison systems
D) Today, male officers are assigned to all posts inside prisons for women

Answer 3

B

Question 4

Inadequate medical care and elimination of visits or other programs are all examples of which of the following three types of prison abuse identified by Bomse?

A) malicious or purposeful abuse
B) negligent abuse
C) systematic or budgetary abuse
D) intentional sexual abuse

Question 5

Under ethical formalism:

A) violating rights and using illegal force against prisoners violate one's duty and are contrary to the categorical imperative
B) it seems obvious that if one acts in an illegal way towards inmates there is very little moral authority can do to influence them to become law-abiding
C) the actions of criminal justice personnel should always promote prisoners' subjective well-being
D) none of these statements reflects ethical formalism

Question 6

Excessive use of force,rape and sexual harassment,theft and destruction of personal property are all examples of which of the following three types of prison abuse identified by Bomse?

A) malicious or purposeful abuse
B) negligent abuse
C) systematic or budgetary abuse
D) intentional sexual abuse

Question 7

Which of the following is not one of the three types of prison abuse identified by Bomse?

A) malicious or purposeful abuse
B) negligent abuse
C) systematic or budgetary abuse
D) intentional sexual abuse

Question 8

Medical personnel sometimes adopt the ____________________ philosophy of corrections and deprive inmates of services because of a belief that they don't deserve treatment.

A) "penal harm"
B) "green wall"
C) "correctional brick wall"
D) "penal oath"

Question 9

Souryal refers to illegitimate acts done for personal gain as:

A) acts of malfeasance
B) acts of nonfeasance
C) acts of misfeasance
D) acts of feasance

Question 10

Under ________________,it seems obvious that if one acts in illegal ways toward inmates or probation/parole clients,there is very little moral authority to influence them to become law-abiding.

A) ethical formalism
B) utilitarianism
C) libertarianism
D) relativism

Question 11

Souryal legally defines _____________________ as the use of oppression or extralegal methods,and ethically,as the failure of officers to demonstrate compassion or keep a promise.

A) malfeasance
B) corruption
C) abuse
D) nonfeasance

Question 12

Which of the following statements about officers having sexual relationships with inmates is true?

A) only male officers engage in sexual relationships with inmates
B) the problem of officers having sexual relationships with inmates is about equally divided between female officers and male officers
C) the problem of officers having sexual relationships with inmates is significantly higher among female officers than male officers
D) the problem of officers having sexual relationships with inmates is significantly higher among male officers than female officers

Question 13

Acts of nonfeasance are acts:

A) of omission such as ignoring rule violations
B) that violate authority
C) performed for personal gain
D) that break ethical standards only

Question 14

Which of the following theories of ethical management argues that officers will treat inmates the way they perceive they are being treated by management?

A) "trickle down" theory
B) "eye-for-an-eye" theory
C) "restitution" theory
D) "hierarchical" theory

Question 15

Which of the following statements is true?

A) In the latest report from the Bureau of Justice Statistics, about 15 percent of inmates reported some type of sexual victimization
B) In the latest report by the Bureau of Justice Statistics, only 1 percent of inmates that reported sexual victimization named another inmate as their victimizer
C) In the latest report by the Bureau of Justice Statistics, over 99 percent of inmates that reported sexual victimization named a staff member as their victimizer
D) In the latest report by the Bureau of Justice Statistics, about 5 percent of inmates reported some type of sexual victimization

Question 16

Lack of responsiveness and failure to protect are examples which of the following three types of prison abuse identified by Bomse?

A) malicious or purposeful abuse
B) negligent abuse
C) systematic or budgetary abuse
D) intentional sexual abuse

Question 17

The person who helped set up the Abu Ghraib prison and had also served as head of the Texas,New Mexico,and Utah prison systems was:

A) Donald Vodicka
B) Andy Collins
C) Farhad Monem
D) Lane McCotter

Question 18

Souryal argued that the ________________ of a correctional institution is influenced by the level of education required for hire,the amount of in-service training officers receive,the policies regarding employees who act in unethical ways,and the presence of a professional association or union that can effectively monitor the agency's practices.

A) "agility"
B) "adequacy"
C) "civility"
D) "worthiness"

Question 19

A group called _________________ was formed at Salinas Valley Prison when inmates who had injured officers in a disturbance were then beaten by the officers in turn.

A) No such group exists
B) "The Green Wall"
C) "The Wall of Pain"
D) "The Salinas Tribunals"

Question 20

McCarthy and Souryal discuss the major types of corruption by correctional officers and other officials in institutional corrections.These include all of following except:

A) theft
B) trafficking
C) embezzlement
D) fraud

Question 21

An element of peacemaking corrections that involves looking at what needs to be done with both the heart and the head is called:

A) "care perspective"
B) "feminine eye"
C) "wholesight"
D) "third-eye sight"

Question 22

The number of male officers supervising female inmates is small.

Question 23

Wright offers seven principles as a guide for how administrators and supervisors should treat employees.Which of the following is not one of these seven principles?

A) fair treatment
B) due process
C) safety
D) good benefits

Question 24

The scandal at Abu Ghraib led to a national commission to study prison practices in the United States.

Question 25

The "trickle down" theory of ethical management is that correctional officers will treat inmates the way they perceive they are being treated by management.

Question 26

Both restorative justice and peacemaking corrections are consistent with the ethics of care and might be considered ______________ models of justice.

A) "feminine"
B) "utilitarian"
C) "masculine"
D) "informal"

Question 27

"Hostile work environment" has to do with the unions objecting to management treatment of officers.

Question 28

Probation and parole officers who have been arrested for a DWI are immediately terminated.

Question 29

To improve the ethical climate of an agency,Souryal advocates all except:

A) upgrading the quality of personnel
B) establishing quality-based supervisory techniques
C) emphasizing true ethical training
D) screening potential employees using psychological tools

Question 30

While it is legal to allow female guards to supervise male inmates,it is illegal to allow male guards to supervise female inmates.

Question 31

Souryal argued that "integrated thinking" and _____________________ were important elements for an ethical climate.

A) "reasoning"
B) "moral agility"
C) "wisdom"
D) "conflict resolution"

Question 32

The "__________________ complex" provides jobs and profits to legions of companies and people around the country.

A) for-profit
B) Wal-prison-mart
C) prison-industrial
D) correctional sector

Question 33

According to the text,which of the following statements is true?

A) the U.S. holds 5 percent of the world's population but 50 percent of its prisoners
B) the U.S. holds 5 percent of the world's population but 25 percent of its prisoners
C) the U.S. holds 5 percent of the world's population but 5 percent of its prisoners
D) the U.S. holds 5 percent of the world's population but 75 percent of its prisoners

Question 34

The Zimbardo experiment of the 1970's was conducted over a period of 3 weeks.

Question 35

Which of the following statements about restorative justice programs is false?

A) Restorative justice programs may lead to oppositional subcultures
B) Restorative justice programs may lead to a greater sense of mission for employees
C) Restorative justice programs are oriented to meeting the needs of victims and offenders
D) Restorative justice programs may lead to decreased burn out and misconduct among employees

Question 36

The experiment where college kids became brutal when they play acted as guards was the Milgram experiment.

Question 37

According to McCarthy,an anti-corruption policy for correctional managers should include all of the following except:

A) improved working conditions
B) providing good role models in the form of supervisors and administrators
C) reduced opportunities for corruption
D) regular lie-detector tests

Question 38

Which of the following statements about reintegrative shaming is true?

A) reintegrative shaming lead to oppositional subcultures
B) reintegrative shaming involves the rejection of both the behavior and the individual
C) reintegrative shaming is practiced in Japan with delinquents
D) reintegrative shaming leads the individual to reject society

Question 39

In the 1990s,Corcoran prison guards in California were accused of setting up gladiator-type fights between inmates and encouraging or allowing prisoner rapes.

Question 40

A strong anti-corruption policy should include screening of employees using state-of-the-art psychological tools.

Question 41

The type of abuse inflicted by individual officers intentionally is called ____________ abuse.

Question 42

What are some possible positive outcomes of adopting restorative justice programs?

Question 43

Explain how Abu Ghraib can provide us with lessons for managing the ethical prison.

Question 44

The Commission on Safety and Abuse in America found that U.S.prisons suffer from a culture of _________________ and a lack of positive treatment goals.

Question 45

The United States,which accounts for five percent of the world population,holds _________percent of the world's prisoners.

Question 46

What are the implications of Zimbardo's prison experiment concerning the potential behavior of correctional officers?

Question 47

Bomse classified the denial of medical care and the lack of responsiveness as ________________ abuse.

Question 48

A type of sexual harassment where sexual innuendos or joking makes the workplace so uncomfortable that the employee perceives it as harmful is referred to as ________________________.

Question 49

Peacemaking corrections may be considered a _____________ model of justice because the focus is not on retribution but rather on needs.

Question 50

The _________________________ mandated that every state keep a record of prison rapes and allocated money to study the problem and develop solutions.

Question 51

List and briefly describe at least three of the programs that are included within the rubric of restorative justice.

Question 52

Describe and discuss restorative justice and its potential role in dealing with misconduct and corruption in corrections.

Question 53

List and briefly describe an alternative approach to misconduct and corruption that is not based upon punishment.

Question 54

List and briefly discuss/describe at least two of the explanations given by McCarthy and Souryal for the misconduct of correctional officers.

Question 55

List and discuss the three types of prisoner abuse that Bomse identified.

Question 56

The term ____________________ refers to a group of officers in Salinas Valley Prison,California who were implicated in a variety of unethical behaviors.

Question 57

Discuss the negative outcomes that have resulted from having male correctional officers guarding female inmates and female correctional officers guarding male inmates.

Question 58

Restorative justice programs are used primarily with __________ and non-violent offenders.

Question 59

List and discuss some management practices that have been found to contribute to an ethical workplace.

Question 60

Restorative justice programs have the potential to decrease ______________ and misconduct for correctional professionals.