Which is false with regard to the physical conditions of juvenile institutions?
a. New institutional facilities house offenders with similar backgrounds together in one room.
b. The most effective design for training schools is to have facilities located around a community square.
c. Most institutions provide toilet and bath facilities, beds, desks, lamps, and tables.
d. Data indicate 25 percent of juvenile facilities are either at capacity or overcrowded.
a
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Which of the following is considered a secondary source?
a. questionnaires b. interviews c. informal discussions d. tape recordings
Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)
1. Facilities that are designed to house individuals for a period of time as a form of punishment for breaking the law are referred to as prison. 2. The New York System was a system of solitary confinement. 3. The Pennsylvania System was a silent system where inmates engaged in congregate labor. 4. During the reformatory era, good time credits allowed inmates to earn time off of their sentence for good behavior. 5. The failures of the reformatory era sent the pendulum swinging back to a focus on punishment over rehabilitation.
The threat of taking ______ action, if unofficial suggestions are not acceptable to the offenders involved, largely removes any element of voluntarism and is coercive.
A. unofficial B. discretionary C. state-law mandated D. official
A system in which the contractor provided prisoners with food and clothing as well as raw materials and in some southern states prisoners were bonded to agricultural producers to perform field labor is a ___________
Fill in the blank(s) with correct word