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Women and Corrections MCQ

 

1. Quid Pro Quo Sexual harassment involves something for something, as in you give your boss ______ favors and the boss allows you to keep your job.

Answer

Correct Answer: Sexual

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2. Education and work training that help one make a living and better pay are more important to secure for men and boys than for women and girls, who are best suited for more feminine and—by definition, in a patriarchal society______ worthy professions.

Answer

Correct Answer: Less

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3. Mount Pleasant prison was the first prison constructed for women in the United States. Built in _____ close to the Sing Sing (New York) prison for men, it was in part administered by Sing Sing but had its own buildings, staff, and administrator.

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Correct Answer: 1839

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4. People who believe that the problem for girls and women involved in crime lies more with the social structure around them (e.g., poverty and lack of sufficient schooling or training, along with patriarchal beliefs) and that the solution lies in preparing them for an alternative existence so that they do not turn to crime refers to _____ Feminists.

Answer

Correct Answer: Liberal

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5. Houses of Refugee was a part of the Jacksonian movement (named after President Andrew Jackson) of the early _____ to use institutions as the solution for social problems. Their stated purpose was to remove impressionable youth, mainly boys but also girls, from the contamination that association with more hardened adult prisoners might bring.

Answer

Correct Answer: 1800s

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6. _____ Environment occurs when the workplace is sexualized with jokes, with pictures, or in other ways that are offensive to one gender.

Answer

Correct Answer: Hostile

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7. Double Deviants refer to women and girls who are deviant because they engage in crime and because they have violated _____ gender role expectations.

Answer

Correct Answer: Societal

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8. The single largest area of growth for women and girls in terms of correctional populations has been ______.

Answer

Correct Answer: Probation

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9. The Ninth Circuit restrictions placed on correctional staff limited ______.

Answer

Correct Answer: Body searches of female inmates by male staff

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10. Which facility had the stated purpose to remove impressionable youth, mainly boys but also girls, from the contamination that association with more hardened criminals would bring?

Answer

Correct Answer: Houses of refuge

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11. Women made significant inroads into the correctional population when ______.

Answer

Correct Answer: The Civil Rights Act was amended in 1972

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12. Quid pro quo sexual harassment is ______.

Answer

Correct Answer: Sexual harassment that involves an exchange of something for something else, as in the case of sexual favors.

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13. According to Young (1994), historically, which group was most likely to have facilities constructed specifically for them?

Answer

Correct Answer: Juvenile males

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14. Feminists have been instrumental in pushing for ______.

Answer

Correct Answer: Better programming for girls and women

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15. The first prison to have a separate wing for women inmates was ______.

Answer

Correct Answer: Newgate Prison

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16. Women and girls are much more likely to have substance abuse problems than their male counterparts.

Answer

Correct Answer: True

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17. Patriarchy assumes that females cannot make it in nonfeminine professions.

Answer

Correct Answer: True

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18. Women are like incarcerated men in that both create pseudofamilies to cope with the pains of imprisonment.

Answer

Correct Answer: False

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19. Women who violate both social and legal norms are called double deviants.

Answer

Correct Answer: True

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20. One of the reasons for restricting body searches of female inmates by male staff is that it may contribute to the revictimization of women with sexual abuse histories.

Answer

Correct Answer: True

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21. In the early years of American corrections, women and girls were much more likely to do their time in institutions separate from men and boys.

Answer

Correct Answer: False

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22. Females cost more to incarcerate than males.

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Correct Answer: True

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