, CHAPTER 8 – AFTER CONVICTION: THE SENTENCING PROCESS
Multiple Choice
1. The United States has experienced a boom in building prisons and implementing longer
sentences for drug crimes and crimes of violence. This illustrates the United States
tendency toward which of the following as a purpose of punishment?
A. Retribution
B. Rehabilitation
C. Deterrence
D. Incapacitation
ANS: D REF: 191 OBJ: 1
2. Which of the following is not one of the purposes of criminal sanctions?
A. Retribution
B. Incapacitation
C. Just Deserts
D. Restoration
ANS: C REF: 191 OBJ: 1
3. Which of the purposes of criminal sanctions is practiced in all of our model countries?
A. Restoration
B. Rehabilitation
C. Incapacitation
D. Retribution
ANS: B REF: 193 OBJ: 1
4. Which country is the only one of our model countries that uses deterrence?
A. England
B. China
C. France
D. Saudi Arabia
ANS: D REF: 193 OBJ: 1
5. Which of the following is not an example of a noncustodial sanction?
A. Branding
B. Fines
C. Confiscation
D. Community Service
ANS: A REF: 196 OBJ: 2
,6. The noncustodial sanction most closely resembling incarceration is:
A. Probation
B. House arrest
C. Exile
D. Restitution
ANS: B REF: 201 OBJ: 2
7. What is the most common form of supervising offenders in the community?
A. House arrest
B. Parole
C. Probation
D. Work release
ANS: C REF: 200 OBJ: 2
8. Which of the following is not one of the “get tough on crime” strategies?
A. Three strikes laws
B. Sentencing Guidelines
C. Use of precedents
D. Truth- in- sentencing laws
ANS: C REF: 205 OBJ: 4
9. The international trend relative to the death penalty is:
A: Increased use
B. Abolition
C. There is no international movement
D. Abolition except in the cases of ordinary crimes
ANS: B REF: 207 OBJ: 5
10. The World Millennium Study conducted by Gallup reflects that:
A. The majority of the people in the world support the death penalty
B. The majority of the people in the world do not support the death penalty
C. The majority of the people in the world are not sure how they feel about the death
penalty
D. The majority of the people in the world feel that the death penalty should be
implemented only in cases of murder.
ANS: A REF: 209 OBJ: 5
, 11. A researcher compares the number of prison admissions over a ten-year period for a
number of countries. His research method is referred to as a:
A. Stock design
B. Flow design
C. Decade design
D. Comparative design
ANS: B REF: 203 OBJ: 4
12. According to international reports such as Amnesty International, which country executes
more people than all other countries combined?
A. United States
B. Saudi Arabia
C. China
D. Libya
ANS: C REF: 206 OBJ: 5
13. Which of the following is not one of the possible reasons for why the United
States appears to be moving towards abolition of the death penalty?
A. The decrease in the violent crime rate in the United States
B. Changing public attitudes towards the death penalty
C. Increase in the number of exonerations in death penalty cases
D. Pressure from the international community to abolish
ANS: A REF: 208 OBJ: 5
14. Which of the following is not one of the limits of International Prison Data?
A. Non- standard definitions
B. Incarceration figures do not account for sentence length
C. Failure of countries to report or accurately report crime data
D. Lack of staff and methodology to handle all of the crime data
ANS: D REF: 205 OBJ: 4
15. Penal populism is mainly only a problem in which of our model countries?
A. England
B. France
C. Germany
D. China
ANS: A REF: 205 OBJ: 4
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