Criminology Unit 8 Exam Questions with Verified Solutions Already Passed
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Criminology Unit 8
Criminology Unit 8 Exam Questions with Verified Solutions Already Passed
Detention Facilities - Answers Handle individuals who have been arrested and are going through processing or awaiting trial.
Correctional Facilities - Answers The prisons where convicted offenders serve out their sentences....
Criminology Unit 8 Exam Questions with Verified Solutions Already Passed
Detention Facilities - Answers Handle individuals who have been arrested and are going through
processing or awaiting trial.
Correctional Facilities - Answers The prisons where convicted offenders serve out their sentences. EX:
county jails or federal prisons.
County Jails - Answers Hold prisoners convicted of misdemeanors who are serving sentences of a year or
less.
Jails - Answers Facilities that hold individuals for up to one year and are administered by local officials.
There are over 3,000
Prisons - Answers Facilities that hold those who are serving sentence of over one year. Usually state or
federal control.
Maximum Security Prisons - Answers Hold convicted offenders who are deemed to be the most
dangerous
Medium Security Prison - Answers For prisoners who are less dangerous
Minimum Security Prison - Answers House offenders who have the lowest risk of violence or escape.
Prison Hulks - Answers Decommissioned ships that were used to hold offenders.
Penitentiary - Answers A site of confinement and corrections for offenders. Now known as prisons.
Reformatories - Answers Institutions designed to reform offenders though things like vocational training
and education.
Rehabilitation Model - Answers Suggested that prisoners should be sentenced to an indefinite amount
of time and released when the individual had been "cured".
The Costs of the System - Answers - In the U.S. the cost of the correction system is $34 billion.
- On average in the U.S. it costs about $20,000 per year for each prisoner.
Private Firms - Answers Companies that operate the prison on a "for profit" basis.
Hierarchical System - Answers Each state has its own system of rule which correctional officers follow
Statistics - Answers - Over 90% of prisoners are male.
- Average age is 30 years old
- Less than 10% of prisoners are over the age of 51.
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