Deck 6: The Correctional Client

Question 1

Sex clients usually seek out strangers as their targets.

Answer 1

False

Question 2

clients are more likely to seek solitude.

A) Situational
B) Elderly
C) Drug abuser
D) Habitual

Answer 2

B

Question 3

Most people convicted of violent offenses were under the influence of an illegal drug when they committed the crime.

Answer 3

True

Question 4

Because every person in prison is different, classification systems apply a set of subjective criteria to all people in prison.

Question 5

Generally, mentally ill persons represent a greater risk of committing violent crimes than the population as a whole.

Question 6

A key way to prevent AIDS both inside and outside of a correctional setting is through knowledge about the virus.

Question 7

Due to prison overcrowding, correctional officials and parole boards believe that situational clients are most appropriate for early release because they typically pose a minimal threat to the public.

Question 8

One-fourth of those convicted of a crime receive a community sentence such as a fine or probation.

Question 9

Clients can be categorized into types based on predictable behavior patterns.

Question 10

The public's response to crime frequently makes classification an emotionally charged issue.

Question 11

Classification decisions are subject to sociopolitical pressures, but only under certain circumstances.

Question 12

One correctional policy decision that may influence who becomes a correctional client is that street crimes warrant more attention from police.

Question 13

Drugs that inhibit aberrant behavior make it possible to deinstitutionalize many clients.

Question 14

Every person who committed a crime who is assigned to correction is unique; no two clients are exactly alike.

Question 15

A classification system that has a significant amount of overlap is able to give correctional administrators guidance about appropriate treatment for clients.

Question 16

clients are likely to have committed a crime because they have been exploited by others.

A) Situational
B) Career
C) Developmentally disabled
D) Alcoholic

Question 17

A person who has been convicted of three or more offenses is considered to be a situational client.

Question 18

A consequence of the filtering process in the criminal justice system is that many people in prison or jail feel unjustly treated in comparison with others..

Question 19

Most sexual offenses occur between strangers.

Question 20

of those convicted receive a community sentence such as a fine or probation.

A) Two-thirds
B) One-half
C) One-third
D) One-quarter

Question 21

The costs of incarceration are most expensive for clients.

A) career
B) situational
C) elderly
D) developmentally disabled

Question 22

Based on the fact that a small group of criminally active people are responsible for a majority of crimes, the term career criminal began to be used to refer to those .

A) who commit crime to make a living
B) with at least three or four convictions
C) who commit the most serious crimes
D) who have life sentences

Question 23

Correctional clients, as a group, seem to the rest of society.

A) differ slightly from
B) differ greatly from
C) be similar to
D) be indistinguishable from

Question 24

In classifying people who committed crimes, correctional administrators put them into groups based on .

A) their needs for treatment
B) risk
C) security issues they pose to the prison
D) All of these are correct

Question 25

To combat ambiguities in classification, correctional administrators have started using .

A) more subjective criteria in an attempt to successfully predict future criminal behavior
B) expanded criteria to admit all relevant facts and use those facts involved in the case
C) a limited number of factors pertaining to substance abuse
D) classification systems that recognize similarities and differences between clients

Question 26

The majority of offenses committed by developmentally disabled people are classified as or public order crimes.

A) sex
B) property
C) violent
D) drug

Question 27

Ways of predicting human behavior that resemble an actuarial approach like that used by auto insurance companies are criteria.

A) offense
B) subjective
C) probabilistic
D) sociopolitical

Question 28

In a typical group of 30 or so young adults, it is likely that has been locked up.

A) at least five
B) at least one
C) at least half
D) no one

Question 29

In recent years, America's prison population has been .

A) getting younger
B) aging
C) shrinking
D) expanding

Question 30

A widespread reconception of rape led it to be defined as .

A) a physical assault
B) a sexual crime
C) a crime of passion
D) a result of mental illness

Question 31

Which of the following has been identified as one of the problems with situational clients?

A) They will generally repeat the offense in the future.
B) Few positive programming options exist for them.
C) Their crimes are usually less serious than most crimes committed by other clients.
D) They are the most problematic and violent incarcerated people in the incarcerated social system.

Question 32

The decision to is a factor influencing the filtering process.

A) pigeonhole
B) grant bail
C) violate the law
D) acquit

Question 33

One key method shown to prevent AIDS transmission is through .

A) education
B) passing out condoms
C) prohibiting homosexual behavior
D) legalizing drugs

Question 34

Half of those entering state prisons are years old.

A) between 25 and 32
B) younger than 18
C) between 18 and 27
D) older than 35

Question 35

The drug abuser presents problems for corrections.

A) indistinct and hardly any
B) classification and organizational
C) very few significant
D) both treatment and management

Question 36

Someone convicted of is very likely to be the target of threats, violence, and hostility while incarcerated.

A) rape
B) child molestation
C) prostitution
D) murder

Question 37

Correctional treatment programs have proven to be effective with .

A) compulsive and habitual drug abusers
B) pedophiles
C) career criminals
D) None of these are correct

Question 38

Programs that deal with developmentally disabled clients have recently focused on .

A) incapacitation
B) rehabilitation
C) deinstitutionalization
D) drug therapy

Question 39

The most slippery concept in the classification of clients is that of the .

A) career criminal
B) violent
C) sex offender
D) mentally ill

Question 40

A treatment program that has consistently proven to be successful for the alcohol abuser in the general population but less successful for those in the correctional population is .

A) psychotherapy
B) milieu therapy
C) group counseling
D) Alcoholics Anonymous.

Question 41

Match each item to the phrase or sentence listed below.
a. Apply objective criteria to all incarcerated people
b. IQs of less than 70
c. A person with several convictions
d. Returning convicts to the community
e. Commit what appear to be one-time offenses
f. Confined for life or until cured
g. Classification based on possible future criminal conduct
h. Classification based on appropriate correctional treatment
i. Classification based on seriousness of crime
j. Person who spends more than 10 years incarcerated
Deinstitutionalization

Question 42

Factors influencing the filtering process through the correctional system include department policy and __________.

Question 43

clients are those whose most greatest personal needs are health-related.

Question 44

Prostitution is considered more a(n) crime than a sex crime.

A) violent
B) public order
C) economic
D) property

Question 45

Match each item to the phrase or sentence listed below.
a. Apply objective criteria to all incarcerated people
b. IQs of less than 70
c. A person with several convictions
d. Returning convicts to the community
e. Commit what appear to be one-time offenses
f. Confined for life or until cured
g. Classification based on possible future criminal conduct
h. Classification based on appropriate correctional treatment
i. Classification based on seriousness of crime
j. Person who spends more than 10 years incarcerated
Offense criteria

Question 46

Match each item to the phrase or sentence listed below.
a. Apply objective criteria to all incarcerated people
b. IQs of less than 70
c. A person with several convictions
d. Returning convicts to the community
e. Commit what appear to be one-time offenses
f. Confined for life or until cured
g. Classification based on possible future criminal conduct
h. Classification based on appropriate correctional treatment
i. Classification based on seriousness of crime
j. Person who spends more than 10 years incarcerated
Long-term incarcerated person

Question 47

Match each item to the phrase or sentence listed below.
a. Apply objective criteria to all incarcerated people
b. IQs of less than 70
c. A person with several convictions
d. Returning convicts to the community
e. Commit what appear to be one-time offenses
f. Confined for life or until cured
g. Classification based on possible future criminal conduct
h. Classification based on appropriate correctional treatment
i. Classification based on seriousness of crime
j. Person who spends more than 10 years incarcerated
Career criminal

Question 48

Match each item to the phrase or sentence listed below.
a. Apply objective criteria to all incarcerated people
b. IQs of less than 70
c. A person with several convictions
d. Returning convicts to the community
e. Commit what appear to be one-time offenses
f. Confined for life or until cured
g. Classification based on possible future criminal conduct
h. Classification based on appropriate correctional treatment
i. Classification based on seriousness of crime
j. Person who spends more than 10 years incarcerated
Classification systems

Question 49

More incarcerated people receive sentences in the United States than in any other Western nation.

A) life
B) community
C) short
D) long

Question 50

Although the mere act of is not considered a serious offense, the collateral acts of predatory crime and violence are considered quite serious.

A) stealing
B) consensual sex with a minor
C) vandalism
D) drug abuse

Question 51

The central problem with the mental health model of criminality is that we .

A) are too lenient on these clients
B) cannot observe people's minds
C) spend too much on these clients
D) should not incarcerate those who are ill

Question 52

produce more disastrous consequences than heroin addicts.

Question 53

Martin and Yablonsky describe a(n) client as one who made a mistake and pays a debt to society for that mistake.

Question 54

Match each item to the phrase or sentence listed below.
a. Apply objective criteria to all incarcerated people
b. IQs of less than 70
c. A person with several convictions
d. Returning convicts to the community
e. Commit what appear to be one-time offenses
f. Confined for life or until cured
g. Classification based on possible future criminal conduct
h. Classification based on appropriate correctional treatment
i. Classification based on seriousness of crime
j. Person who spends more than 10 years incarcerated
Situational client

Question 55

Match each item to the phrase or sentence listed below.
a. Apply objective criteria to all incarcerated people
b. IQs of less than 70
c. A person with several convictions
d. Returning convicts to the community
e. Commit what appear to be one-time offenses
f. Confined for life or until cured
g. Classification based on possible future criminal conduct
h. Classification based on appropriate correctional treatment
i. Classification based on seriousness of crime
j. Person who spends more than 10 years incarcerated
__________ clients have been convicted of violent crimes or drug distribution.

Question 56

Match each item to the phrase or sentence listed below.
a. Apply objective criteria to all incarcerated people
b. IQs of less than 70
c. A person with several convictions
d. Returning convicts to the community
e. Commit what appear to be one-time offenses
f. Confined for life or until cured
g. Classification based on possible future criminal conduct
h. Classification based on appropriate correctional treatment
i. Classification based on seriousness of crime
j. Person who spends more than 10 years incarcerated
Risk criteria

Question 57

Match each item to the phrase or sentence listed below.
a. Apply objective criteria to all incarcerated people
b. IQs of less than 70
c. A person with several convictions
d. Returning convicts to the community
e. Commit what appear to be one-time offenses
f. Confined for life or until cured
g. Classification based on possible future criminal conduct
h. Classification based on appropriate correctional treatment
i. Classification based on seriousness of crime
j. Person who spends more than 10 years incarcerated
Program criteria

Question 58

Match each item to the phrase or sentence listed below.
a. Apply objective criteria to all incarcerated people
b. IQs of less than 70
c. A person with several convictions
d. Returning convicts to the community
e. Commit what appear to be one-time offenses
f. Confined for life or until cured
g. Classification based on possible future criminal conduct
h. Classification based on appropriate correctional treatment
i. Classification based on seriousness of crime
j. Person who spends more than 10 years incarcerated
Developmentally disabled

Question 59

Match each item to the phrase or sentence listed below.
a. Apply objective criteria to all incarcerated people
b. IQs of less than 70
c. A person with several convictions
d. Returning convicts to the community
e. Commit what appear to be one-time offenses
f. Confined for life or until cured
g. Classification based on possible future criminal conduct
h. Classification based on appropriate correctional treatment
i. Classification based on seriousness of crime
j. Person who spends more than 10 years incarcerated
Civil commitment

Question 60

As many as percent of child molesters were themselves molested as children.

A) 10
B) 90
C) 25
D) 50

Question 61

What distinct advantages and challenges does the elderly person in prison present? Should we continue to incarcerate people past a certain age? Why or why not?

Question 62

People in prison who have are usually segregated from the general prison population.

Question 63

When the justice system brings the more serious cases forward for more severe punishment, it acts as a selective
__________.

Question 64

Describe the classification process as it pertains to the U.S. correctional system. Explain the value and importance for both the persons and staff.

Question 65

Individuals classified as having a are people whose rational processes do not seem to operate in normal ways.

Question 66

Compare the situational client to the career criminal. What are the main differences and what are their similarities?

Question 67

A person who in a particular set of circumstances has violated the law but is not normally given to criminal behavior and who is unlikely to repeat the offense is a(n) client.

Question 68

While only 2 percent of the U.S. adult population abuses drugs, over percent of those in prison admit to doing so.

Question 69

Explain the classification scheme of people in the corrections system in terms of the uses to which this scheme is put.

Question 70

Due to prison overcrowding, correctional officials believe that clients are most appropriate for early release because these clients typically pose little or no threat to the public.

Question 71

Discuss the changes that have occurred over time in how clients with mental illnesses are dealt with in corrections, and the foreseeable changes in the future for the corrections classification process.

Question 72

Discuss the characteristics of "long-termers" in terms of (1) the risk they represent to the community, (2) their need for special kinds of correctional programming, and (3) distinctions that need to be made among people within each group.

Question 73

Because of , many former mental patients end up as corrections clients.

Question 74

Identify the two reasons why the prison population is aging. What consequences does this have for corrections?

Question 75

Once a person is , a range of punishments of escalating severity may be imposed.

Question 76

Explain how the "filtering" capacity of the criminal justice system and characteristics found in the general population lead to a correctional population that differs significantly from the general population.

Question 77

How is the line drawn between a situational client and a "career criminal"? Discuss the benefits and drawbacks of categorizing convicts as one or the other.

Question 78

We can view the criminal justice system as a(n) process, because it operates as a large client selection bureaucracy.

Question 79

Those convicted of is often the most despised client in court and in prison.

Question 80

The term refers to a person who has numerous contacts with the law throughout his or her life.