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Female Offenders in Correctional Systems MCQ

Female Offenders in Correctional Systems MCQ

 

1. _____ is defined as viewed women from a lens of inflexible femininity where women were to be considered pious and naïve of the evils of the world.

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Correct Answer: Victorian Era

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2. _____ is developed as alternatives to the penitentiary’s harsh conditions of enforced silence and hard labor.

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Correct Answer: Reformatories for Women

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3. Is patriarchy a male-oriented and male-dominated social structure that defers to men and sees women in a subservient position to men?

Answer

Correct Answer: True

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4. _____ is known as an internal state “watchdog” agency that was tasked with providing recommendations to the state governor and legislature in California.

Answer

Correct Answer: Little Hoover Commission

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5. _____ is defined as behaviors used by one person in a relationship to control the other.

Answer

Correct Answer: Domestic Violence

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6. _____ is any sexual act between correctional staff and inmates, even if it is consensual.

Answer

Correct Answer: Custodial Sexual Misconduct

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7. Is chivalry Hypothesis contends that there is a bias in the criminal justice system against giving women harsh punishments?

Answer

Correct Answer: True

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8. All of the following are accurate statements about the contemporary female prison population except this.

Answer

Correct Answer: Most incarcerated women were convicted of a violent offense.

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9. Which of the following is an accurate statement about early 20th-century women’s reformatories?

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Correct Answer: Women of color were just as likely to be sent to a reformatory as White women.

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10. Which of the following is a correct statement about incarcerated mothers and their children?

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Correct Answer: Incarcerated women with diminished communication with their children are more likely to recidivate.

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11. In ______, the U.S. Supreme Court mandated that similar programming opportunities must exist in female prisons as in male prisons.

Answer

Correct Answer: Glover v. Johnson

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12. Which of the following is an accurate statement about the abuse histories of male and female inmates?

Answer

Correct Answer: For both male and female inmates, placement in foster home increased the likelihood of victimization.

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13. Fictive family relationships are common in female prisons.

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Correct Answer: True

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14. As compared with male inmates, female inmates are typically incarcerated in prisons closer to their families.

Answer

Correct Answer: False

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15. This female activist is known for establishing the “Association for the Improvement of the Female Prisoners” in Old Newgate Prison.

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Correct Answer: Elizabeth Fry

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16. What is the name of the commission that was tasked with providing recommendations to the state governor and legislature and found that the correctional system was not operating well and that conditions were particularly bleak for female offenders?

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Correct Answer: Little Hoover Commission

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17. During the Victorian Era, male reformatories also existed to correct the morality of men.

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Correct Answer: False

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18. Historically, women, men, and children were incarcerated together in the same facilities.

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Correct Answer: True

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19. During the Victorian Era, the length of time that women served within reformatories was mostly due to ______.

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Correct Answer: Their ability to comply with expectations of how women should behave

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20. All of the following are accurate statements about male and female offenders except this.

Answer

Correct Answer: Male inmates are more likely to report a mental health problem than female inmates.

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21. Which of the following is an accurate statement pertaining to the chivalry hypothesis?

Answer

Correct Answer: Female offenders receive a more lenient sentence than male offenders only if the offense confirms with expectations of how women should behave.

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22. The sexual abuse of female offenders by male staff was a problem in early 1800 prisons.

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Correct Answer: True

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