● Chapter 12: Community Corrections

Title: Chapter 12 – Question 1

1) Which term best describes when criminal justice programs pull
more clients into the system than would otherwise be involved?
a. Net-widening
b. Inclusiveness
c. Community corrections
d. recidivism

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 12 – Question 2
2) Which is an assumption about the benefits of using community
resources to address the problems of crime?
a. The community has resources that are unavailable in prison
b. The state spends less money on offenders in community
corrections programs than it does incarcerating them
c. The prison’s total control doesn’t prepare inmates to take
responsibility for their actions
d. All of the above

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 12 – Question 3
3) Which function does not define the occupation of the probation
officer?
a. Supervision
b. Service
c. Investigation
d. Security

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 12 – Question 4
4) The probation officer prepares this report to assist a judge in
sentencing.
a. Pre-trial investigation
b. Post-sentence investigation
c. Pre-sentence investigation
d. Permanent record

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 12 – Question 5
5) When collecting information about a case, what does the
probation officer use?
a. Legal history of the incident and the offender’s academic history
b. Legal history of the incident and the offender’s social history
c. Legal history of the incident and the offender’s credit rating
d. Legal history of the incident and the offender’s permanent
school record

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 12 – Question 6
6) Which best describes probation supervision?
a. A form of rehabilitation and surveillance
b. A form of punishment and incarceration
c. A form of punishment and retribution
d. A form of punishment and surveillance

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 12 – Question 7
7) Probation officers use this to determine the level of risk for
offenders,.
a. Conversation with the offender
b. Pre-sentence investigation
c. Risk-assessment instrument
d. All of the above
Type: multiple choice question
Title: Chapter 12 – Question 8
8) Which is a goal of the criminal justice system?
a. Incapacitation
b. Retribution
c. Rehabilitation
d. All of the above

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 12 – Question 9
9) This form of supervision requires frequent meetings between the
client and probation officer.
a. Regular-supervision probation
b. Light-supervision probation
c. Intensive-supervision probation
d. Medium-supervision probation

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 12 – Question 10
10) In this case, the Supreme Court set forth that felony defendants
must be allowed to have an attorney during hearings when
probation may be revoked or a deferred sentence imposed.
a. Morrissey v. Brewer
b. Mempa v. Rhay
c. Ford v. Wainwright
d. Tennessee v. Garner

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 12 – Question 11
11) Which is an impediment to the work of probation officers?
a. Sparse resources
b. Uncooperative offenders
c. High caseloads
d. All of the above

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 12 – Question 12
12) The United States has a bifurcated court process. The first goal
is to determine if the defendant is guilty. What is the second?
a. Sentencing the convicted offender
b. Labeling the defendant
c. Acquitting the defendant
d. All of the above

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 12 – Question 13
13) Probation is the decision of a _____, whereas parole is under
the control of the _____.
a. Judge; governor
b. Judge; president
c. Governor; judge
d. Prosecutor; governor

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 12 – Question 14
14) This is continuing to break the criminal law and returning to the
criminal justice system after being processed for past offenses.
a. Repeat offending
b. Net-widening
c. Retribution
d. recidivism

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 12 – Question 15
15) Which is one of the principles on which the decision to grant
parole is based?
a. The rehabilitation issue
b. The limited amount of prison space
c. The public demand for retribution and punishment
d. All of the above

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 12 – Question 16
16) This is the time deducted from an inmate's prison sentence for
good behavior.
a. Behavior time
b. Hard time
c. Meritorious time
d. Good time

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 12 – Question 17
17) The decision to grant parole is based on several factors. Which
is not one of these?
a. Time served
b. Pre-parole plan
c. Offender interview
d. Public opinion

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 12 – Question 18
18) Some inmates can significantly reduce their sentence by
earning this for completing treatment programs or educational
degrees while in prison.
a. Behavior time
b. Hard time
c. Meritorious time
d. Good time
Type: multiple choice question
Title: Chapter 12 – Question 19
19) Which is not true of intensive-supervision probation?
a. ISP clients have about four times as much contact with probation
officers.
b. ISP clients are more likely to be required to participate in
electronic home monitoring.
c. ISP clients are more likely to be brought before the court for
technical violations.
d. ISP officers’ caseloads are higher.

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 12 – Question 20
20) Which is one of the obstacles to an inmate's successful
re-entry into society?
a. Prisonization
b. Judges
c. Parole boards
d. All of the above

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 12 – Question 21
21) This is a personal status that overwhelms all others.
a. Minimum status
b. Temporary status
c. Inmate status
d. Master status

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 12 – Question 22
22) This is a sentencing alternative for the judge who finds regular
probation too lenient and prison too severe.
a. Parole
b. Primary sanction
c. Intermediate sanction
d. Tertiary sanction

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 12 – Question 23
23) Which is not a community corrections strategy?
a. Diversion program
b. Probation
c. parole
d. jail

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 12 – Question 24
24) Offenders can be diverted to alternative programs at several
points in the criminal justice system. Which criminological theory
are these programs based on?
a. Biological
b. Strain
c. Rational choice
d. labeling

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 12 – Question 25
25) Which is not a disadvantage of private probation?
a. The questionable ethics of punishment for profit
b. Lack of social-class bias
c. Low staff qualifications
d. Profit motive