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The Corrections Experience for Staff MCQ

The Corrections Experience for Staff MCQ

 

1. Street Level Bureaucrat is the position of public-sector workers in entry-level positions in the criminal justice system who often have_____on how to do their work.

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Correct Answer: All of these

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2. Stanford Prison Experiment was a 1971 experiment conducted at Stanford University in which volunteer students were divided into officers and inmates in a makeshift prison. The experiment ended with about one third of the “officers” engaged in the abuse of “inmates,” and other officers stood by while it was going on. The experiment was stopped after a few days and is often referenced as an example of how _____ that develop as part of the job can foster corrupt behavior by officers.

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Correct Answer: Both

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3. What a person does on the job every day is known as _____

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Correct Answer: Role

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4. _____ includes the enforcement of professional standards for their new hires, such as a required college-level educational background, pay that is commensurate with job requirements, training that sufficiently prepares people for the job, and a code of ethics that drives the work practice.

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Correct Answer: Professionalism

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5. Profession is regarding the positions of corrections officers and staff, distinguished by prior educational attainment involving college, formal training on the job or just prior to the start of the job, pay and benefits that are commensurate with the work, the ability to exercise discretion, and work that is guided by a code of_____.

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Correct Answer: Ethics

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6. Power is the ability to “get people to do what they otherwise would”

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Correct Answer: False

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7. Human Service is the provision by a correctional officer of goods and _____ to help inmates adjust.

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Correct Answer: All of these

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8. Hack is a correctional officer in a prison who is a _____ keeper of inmates.

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Correct Answer: All of these

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9. Abu Ghraib is a military prison in _____ where untrained “correctional officers” subjected prisoners to torture.

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Correct Answer: Iraq

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10. Specialization in bureaucracy refers to ______.

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Correct Answer: Specific skills and abilities

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11. Inderbitzin (2006) found that officers and counselors working in juvenile corrections need to be ______.

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Correct Answer: “flexible” and “energetic”

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12. Abuse of power is more likely to occur ______.

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Correct Answer: All of these

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13. Ethics in corrections can be defined as ______.

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Correct Answer: Allowing inmates freedom

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14. Hierarchy, specialization, and rule of law are the three structure elements of ______.

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Correct Answer: Bureaucracy

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15. The mostly untrained “correctional officers” in the Abu Ghraib scandal made prisoners ______.

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Correct Answer: All of these

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16. The continuum of ______ flows from community corrections to public prisons and jails (most to least).

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Correct Answer: Correctional professionalism

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17. From 1982 to 2006, there was almost a 660% increase in direct expenditures for ______.

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Correct Answer: Corrections agencies

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18. Race, age, and prior military service have no effect on the correctional workplace.

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Correct Answer: False

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19. Corrections organizations are governed by an enforceable code of ethics created by the American Correctional Association.

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Correct Answer: False

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20. Dahl (1961) defined power as “getting people to do what they otherwise wouldn’t.”

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Correct Answer: True

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21. The Stanford Prison Experiment was stopped after only a few days due to ethical issues in its formulation.

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Correct Answer: True

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22. Public prisons are the most professionalized in relation to pay in the corrections system.

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Correct Answer: False

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23. From 1982 to 2006, there was almost a 100% increase in direct expenditures for corrections agencies.

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Correct Answer: False

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24. Discretion is the ability to distinguish between right and wrong.

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Correct Answer: False

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