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How to Classify and Assess Offenders MCQ

The primary purpose of assessing and classifying inmates is rehabilitation.

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Correct Answer: False

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Predicting human behavior is fairly easy, given the right tools.

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Correct Answer: False

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Who developed the Level of Service/Case Management Inventory (LS/CMI)?

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Correct Answer: Canadians

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In probation and parole, the rehabilitative needs of offenders take precedence over their risk of reoffending.

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Correct Answer: False

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Prisons in the past made no efforts to classify inmates by age, gender, or mental health.

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Correct Answer: True

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The subjective judgment of mental-health professionals is superior to statistical data in predicting the future behavior of offenders.

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Correct Answer: False

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Many sex offenders may be classified (or may ask to be classified) to administrative segregation, where they often remain in their cells for how many hours in a day?

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Correct Answer: 24

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The assessment and classification of offenders lets probation and parole officers make better use of their time.

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Correct Answer: True

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While classification is useful for prison officials, it is not for inmates.

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Correct Answer: False

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In how many states is marijuana is legalized?

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Correct Answer: 4

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The elderly are classified as a special population in prison.

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Correct Answer: True

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There are correctional programs designed to meet the needs of mentally ill offenders.

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Correct Answer: False

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Jails are long-term facilities.

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Correct Answer: False

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A classification system is used to assign an inmate to prison housing.

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Correct Answer: True

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The United States has the lowest incarceration rate in the worl

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Correct Answer: False

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Risk factors can be

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Correct Answer: Both

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National Institute of Corrections is a correctional tool that identifies ______ areas of assessment that provide for objective custodial placement

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Correct Answer: Eight

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Level of Service/ Case Management Inventory (LS/CMI) is a Canadian fourth generation instrument that contains _____ factors addressed by 43 items to determine risk, needs, and supervision level of offenders

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Correct Answer: Eight

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The PCL-R is an instrument widely used around the world to identify

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Correct Answer: The psychopaths

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In custodian level the degree of supervision inmates receive can be

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Correct Answer: Any of the above

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Criminogenic Needs are factors associated with

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Correct Answer: Recidivism

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Classification is the process of sorting things into categories according to

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Correct Answer: Shared qualities

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Case Management Classification (CMC) System is the most widely used instrument in the U.S. for

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Correct Answer: Offender assessment

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The process of making a judgment about something or someone based on certain criteria is called

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Correct Answer: Assessment

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AIMS stands for Adult Internal Management System

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Correct Answer: True

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Actuarial method is a method of making ______ based on statistical analyses of behavior patterns of people similarly situated, averaged over many thousands of cases

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Correct Answer: Predictions

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