Deck 11: Rehabilitation, Treatment, and Job Training

Question 1

A planned intervention designed to change an offender's behavior is called

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

Answer 1

rehabilitation.

Question 2

________ refers to people's mental processes and how they resolve problems.

A) Cognitive skills
B) Displacement skills
C) Advanced skills
D) Physical skills

Answer 2

Cognitive skills

Question 3

________ are treatment programs linked directly to factors associated with criminal activity.

A) Cognitive skills
B) Criminogenic needs
C) Mental modalities
D) Responsive skills

Answer 3

Criminogenic needs

Question 4

The term "Moral Reconation Therapy" attempts to

A) minimize a change in a client's process of conscious decision-making.
B) reduce a client's process of conscious decision-making.
C) increase a change in a client's process of conscious decision-making.
D) withhold a client's process of conscious decision-making.

Question 5

________ programs suggest that offenders must understand the victim's attitudes, experiences, and impact that the offender's actions had upon the victim.

A) Victim awareness
B) Suspect awareness
C) Community awareness
D) Global Awareness

Question 6

Which of the following is not a life skill?

A) recreational self-management
B) drug resistance skills
C) personal self-management
D) general social skills

Question 7

Inmates working on a golf course at the Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola, is an example of

A) work release.
B) community service.
C) vocational training.
D) prison industry.

Question 8

Housing mobility programs provide transportation to inner-city residents so they can

A) attend local church in the suburbs.
B) receive medical treatment in the suburbs.
C) participate in suburban job training programs.
D) go to work in the suburbs.

Question 9

Work release programs allow prisoners to temporarily work in

A) prison industries.
B) the private sector.
C) voluntary organizations.
D) government sector jobs.

Question 10

Meta-analyses indicate that treatment programs for offenders

A) is far to costly to benefit society.
B) can lead to a reduction in recidivism.
C) fails to impact the offenders life style.
D) can cause an increase in the crime rate.

Question 11

The Hare Psychopathy Checklist is used to predict an offender's level of

A) needs.
B) responsibility.
C) risk.
D) pleasure.

Question 12

Research shows that rehabilitation and treatment work best with some form of

A) reasoning training.
B) recreational training.
C) child-care training.
D) corporal punishment.

Question 13

A sex offender treatment program sometimes mirror programs designed to treat

A) white-collar criminals.
B) motor vehicle thieves.
C) drug offenders.
D) professional burglars.

Question 14

Personal self-management is concerned with such things as

A) a person's self-image and minimizing stress.
B) a person's desire for an education.
C) taking a more negative view of life's challenges.
D) interacting with a social network of friends.

Question 15

Bringing victims of drunk driving face to face with the actual drunk driver is an example of

A) victim-witness programs.
B) life-skills training.
C) victim-impact panels.
D) self-image analysis.

Question 16

The DARE program is a form of life skills training.

Question 17

Anger management programs have proven highly effective in lowering recidivism.

Question 18

Correctional industries are closely tied to vocational training.

Question 19

Inmates can not be paid for goods that correctional facilities manufacture.

Question 20

Specific responsivity is concerned with a person's internal characteristics.

Question 21

Reason training seeks to improve an offender's ability to make proper decisions.

Question 22

General social skills are concerned with a person's ability to evaluate problems.

Question 23

Rehabilitation programs can never be successful.

Question 24

The relationship between work release programs and recidivism has been highly researched.

Question 25

Housing dispersal programs move homeless people into shelters.

Question 26

________ is a research technique synthesizing the literature devoted to a specific topic.

Question 27

________ provide transportation for inner-city residents to work in the suburbs.

Question 28

Treatment intensity will vary depending upon an offender's ________.

Question 29

Altering a person's ability to make conscious decisions is called ________.

Question 30

________ is concerned with the offender understanding how he or she is influenced by others.

Question 31

________ is a term used to convey a method of dealing with people who are addicted to crime.

Question 32

Evidence suggests that in-prison therapeutic communities lead to a reduction in ________.

Question 33

________ testing has been one of the more common methods of determining if a parolee has drugs in his or her system.

Question 34

________ are targeted factors in a treatment program that are most likely linked to one's criminal activity.

Question 35

Define the term rehabilitation and describe what it targets.

Question 36

Explain the importance of life skills.

Question 37

Describe what takes place in correctional industries.