Question 1

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?

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Question 2

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

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Question 3

When the justice system brings the more serious cases forward for more severe punishment, it acts as a selective
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Question 4

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

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Question 5

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

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Question 6

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

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Question 7

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.

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Question 8

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

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Question 9

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

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Question 10

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.

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Question 11

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.

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Question 12

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.

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Question 13

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

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Question 14

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

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Question 15

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

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Question 16

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.

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Question 17

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.

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Question 18

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

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Question 19

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

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Question 20

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

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Quiz 6: The Correctional Client