CRIM 1110 Exam #1 Questions And Accurate
Answers 2024-2025
A prison with a zonal security system to control inmate movement is a: - Answer medium
security prison.
With the number of plea bargains increasing over the past few years, there seems to be
a transfer of power in the courtroom to the prosecutor from the: - Answer judge.
______ sanctions falling between probation and prison are used to spare people
incarceration, even in cases involving death. - Answer Intermediate.
Political pressure does not actually impact how a judge might choose to sentence a
criminal offender. - Answer False.
All of the following are alternative options to local control of jails. - Answer all of the
above.
Intermediate sanctions are typically under the control of county sheriffs. - Answer False.
Boot camps originally were created for use in adult corrections, but now they are most
frequently used with juvenile offenders. - Answer True.
Which of the following is NOT one of the hallmarks of the "new penology" approach to
probation? - Answer It focuses less on treatment and providing service to penal agents.
One trend in the 1980s was the increase in secure confinement of drug offenders. -
Answer False.
, Government figures indicate that an African American male born today has a one in
three chance of spending at least a year in prison at some time in his life. - Answer True.
Broad-based public support for "just desert" sentencing made interest in community
sanctions focus on: - Answer the seriousness of the crime.
The setting of justice policy is assisted by the ____________________ branch of
government - Answer -
A) legislative.
B) judicial
C) societal.
D) executive.
What Supreme Court decision ruled that private prison corporations are immune from
suits filed under the federal civil rights statute? - Answer Correction Services Corp. v.
Malesko.
A prison is a county correctional facility that holds people pending trial, awaiting
sentence, serve a sentence (usually less a year) or pending transfer to another facilities
after conviction. -Answer False.
Who is eligible for drug court? - Answer those who are nonviolent offenders who have
substance abuse problems.
The Federal Bureau of Prisons was established in: - Answer 1930.
Contemporary prisons provide well-paying jobs to the local communities. - Answer True
By the 1890s, the medical model had been instituted in every U.S. prison. - Answer
False.
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