Deck 11: Punishment and Sentencing

Question 1

In the death of Tyler Clementi, Dharun Ravi was convicted of which of the following crimes?

A) Bias intimidation
B) Invasion of privacy
C) Tampering with evidence
D) Lying to investigators
E) All of the above

Answer 1

E

Question 2

Jaycee Dugard was held captive by the Garrido family for how many years?

A) 10
B) 15
C) 18
D) 21

Answer 2

C

Question 3

Phillip Garrido was sentenced to ________ years in prison.

A) 125
B) 237
C) 345
D) 431

Answer 3

D

Question 4

Nancy Garrido was sentenced to ______ years to life behind bars.

A) 15
B) 23
C) 36
D) 45

Question 5

Punishment cannot be barbaric and must be proportionate to the crime.

Question 6

Which of the following are questions at the core of criminal punishment and sentencing?

A) Why society inflicts punishment
B) Which punishments are acceptable in a civil society
C) Which punishments are permissible for which crime
D) All of the above

Question 7

Offenders used to face punishment for which of the following crimes?

A) Pig stealing
B) Idleness
C) Adultery
D) All of the above

Question 8

Which of the following physical punishments were inflicted on offenders in the past?

A) Dismemberment
B) Whipping post
C) Branding on the cheek or forehead
D) All of the above

Question 9

Forcing a person to wear a sign or parading them through town tethered to a rope were designed to cause humiliation and public shame.

Question 10

Penal colonies were also a form of punishment.

Question 11

Historically, the death penalty consisted of which of the following punishments?

A) Hanging
B) Drawing
C) Quartering
D) Stoning
E) All of the above

Question 12

What are the slave codes?

Question 13

Which of the following activities were unlawful under the slave codes?

A) Learning to read
B) Using abusive language
C) Gather in small groups
D) All of the above

Question 14

Which of the following punishments were inflicted on blacks that violated the slave codes?

A) Whippings
B) Banishment
C) Death
D) All of the above

Question 15

The slave codes were first passed in which of the following states?

A) Alabama
B) South Carolina
C) Georgia
D) Virginia

Question 16

Which of the following are known as the rationales for criminal punishment?

A) Deterrence
B) Rehabilitation
C) Incapacitation
D) Retribution
E) All of the above

Question 17

General deterrence is directed as the general public.

Question 18

Which of the following are factors that are taken into account when administering sanctions?

A) Certainty
B) Severity
C) Celerity
D) All of the above

Question 19

Severity refers to the perceived harshness of the punishment that an individual will receive.

Question 20

Certainty refers to the perceived speed with which the offender will receive the punishment.

Question 21

What is the basic premise of rehabilitation?

Question 22

Which of the following responses are covered under the rehabilitative umbrella?

A) Drug treatment
B) School completion
C) Job training
D) Psychological counseling
E) All of the above

Question 23

Which of the following are programs that have the greatest impact on recidivism?

A) Anger management
B) Substance abuse
C) Interpersonal problem solving
D) Critical thinking
E) All of the above

Question 24

Rehabilitation is an unpopular in the criminal justice system.

Question 25

Explain the incapacitation rationale.

Question 26

___________ is less concerned with how prisoners spend their time and whether this impacts their actions after they are released.

A) Deterrence
B) Rehabilitation
C) Incapacitation
D) Retribution

Question 27

Career offenders commit upwards of ______ percent of all crime.

A) 15
B) 25
C) 35
D) 50

Question 28

What is the purpose of three strikes laws?

Question 29

Historically, retribution was composed of which of the following barbaric acts?

A) Dismemberment
B) Drawing and quartering
C) Placing people in stockades
D) All of the above

Question 30

The right to bear arms and right to vote are still permitted for individuals who are incarcerated.

Question 31

The primary goal of _____________ is to punish the offender.

A) incapacitation
B) deterrence
C) rehabilitation
D) retribution

Question 32

Retribution is a popular choice of punishment.

Question 33

__________ is a new rationale for punishment.

A) Retribution
B) Deterrence
C) Restorative justice
D) Rehabilitation

Question 34

Crime harms people and relationships.

Question 35

Restorative justice is composed of which of the following parts?

A) Offender
B) Victim
C) Society
D) All of the above

Question 36

Which of the following cases used a restorative justice model to determine punishment?

A) Gregg v. Georgia (1976)
B) Wisconsin v. Mitchell (1993)
C) Humphrey v. Wilson (2007)
D) People v. Mooney (1986)

Question 37

Punishment is determined by which of the following factors?

A) Type of crime
B) Applicable law
C) Age of the victim and offender
D) Offenders status
E) All of the above

Question 38

The goal of rehabilitation is to protect society from the offender.

Question 39

A fine may be the only sanction for an offense.

Question 40

The amount of a fine depends on the offense.

Question 41

Restitution is tied to a victim's loss.

Question 42

__________ represent the largest category of people under correctional supervision.

A) Probation
B) Parole
C) Jail
D) Prison

Question 43

In 2012, it was estimated that there were ______ million people in correctional supervision in the United States.

A) 2
B) 3
C) 5
D) 7

Question 44

Prisons vary in security level.

Question 45

In Brown v. Plata (2011), the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the conditions in _________ were violating the Eighth Amendment.

A) Florida
B) Arizona
C) California
D) Oregon

Question 46

There are two types of sentencing systems: determinate and indeterminate.

Question 47

Offenses are graded from one to five.

Question 48

Mandatory minimums exist at the state and federal levels.

Question 49

More than _________ people were sentenced under the federal crack cocaine law.

A) 25 thousand
B) 50 thousand
C) 75 thousand
D) 100 thousand

Question 50

The U.S. Supreme Court struck down Georgia's death penalty statute as unconstitutional and a violation of the

A) 1^st Amendment
B) 4^th Amendment
C) 6^th Amendment
D) 8^th Amendment

Question 51

Lethal injection was introduced in order to avoid concerns of cruel and unusual punishment.

Question 52

Which of the following are methods of execution that were and are utilized?

A) Gas chamber
B) Lethal injection
C) Gas chamber
D) Firing squad
E) All of the above