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Juvenile Corrections MCQ

_____ is a sanction in which the juvenile is required to perform services for the victim such as repairing private property.

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Correct Answer: Victim service restitution

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Is restitution the act of “paying back” the victim of an act of delinquency or his or her family by means of money, volunteer labor, community service, or some other agreed-upon method?

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Correct Answer: True

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_____ is known as the term used for the process of ending incarceration and reestablishing one’s life after incarceration.

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Correct Answer: Reentry

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_____ is defined as a sanction in which the juvenile offender is required to pay the victim for monetary damages that the juvenile created.

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Correct Answer: Monetary restitution

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_____ is intensive supervision by a probation officer and electronic monitoring to control juveniles.

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Correct Answer: Home confinement

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Is halfway house a rehabilitative center or house in which juveniles are helped to readjust to the outside world after incarceration?

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Correct Answer: True

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_____ is known as an alternative to the traditional in-home foster care for children in which a number of children live for various amounts of time with a single set of house parents or rotating staff.

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Correct Answer: Group home

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_____ is defined as a household, designed to replicate a home environment, in which a delinquent or neglected child may be placed when he or she cannot be sent back home.

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Correct Answer: Foster home

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_____ is the process by which an offender is monitored in the community through the use of technology/electronic devices.

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Correct Answer: Electronic monitoring

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Is detention facilities centers in which juveniles are housed while awaiting their adjudication hearing or in some instances their disposition hearing?

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Correct Answer: True

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_____ is known as an institution, also known as a training school or reformatory, that is the most popular type of residential facility in use in the juvenile justice system.

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Correct Answer: Correctional institution

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_____ is defined as a sanction in which the juvenile offender is required to perform some sort of service for the community.

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Correct Answer: Community service restitution

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_____ is a correctional alternative in which juveniles participate in a program with military structure focused on physical activity and strict rules.

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Correct Answer: Boot camp

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Detention facilities are primarily used to house juveniles prior to their formal disposition.

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Correct Answer: True

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Probation is considered one of the least intrusive correctional alternatives by the court and it consists of release back into the community (to the juvenile’s parent or guardian) and conditions or rules that the juvenile must follow for a set amount of time.

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Correct Answer: True

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______ are centers in which juveniles are housed while awaiting their adjudication hearing, or in some instances, their disposition hearing.

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Correct Answer: Detention facilities

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______ is a correctional alternative in which juveniles participate in a program with military structure focused on physical activity and strict rules.

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Correct Answer: Boot camp

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Community service restitution requires that the juvenile perform some sort of service for the community.

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Correct Answer: True

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Research suggests that there are low rates of recidivism in youth that are housed in Juvenile correctional institutions.

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Correct Answer: False

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White youth are more likely to be transferred to adult court than Black youth.

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Correct Answer: False

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If the court believes that a child who has engaged in delinquency is not in good care from his or her parents and that the negligent care may have contributed to his or her bad behavior, the court may use what?

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Correct Answer: Foster care

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______ uses intensive supervision by a probation officer and electronic monitoring in order to control juveniles.

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Correct Answer: Home confinement

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______ programs are designed to compensate the crime victim for the harm done to him or her.

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Correct Answer: Restitution

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