The process of determining which inmates go to which institutions and what the specific conditions of their confinement will be is referred to as:
A. security determination.
B. risk assessment.
C. risk prediction.
D. classification.
Answer: D
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A cohort study is _____________
a. any study that examines information on many cases at one point in time b. any research that examines information from many units or cases across more than one point in time c. longitudinal research in which information can be about different cases or people in each of several time periods d. longitudinal research in which information is about the identical cases or people in each of several time periods e. longitudinal research in which information about a category of cases or people that shared a common experience at one time period is traced across subsequent time periods
Women in custodial institutions were typically convicted on _____.
A. Status offenses B. Property crimes C. White-Collar crimes D. Victimless crimes
Leo Lincoln has made a series of bad decisions since losing his job two years ago. In the past two years, he has been arrested three times for various crimes, including drug possession, possession of illegal firearms, and most recently, aggravated assault. He also has spent much of the past two years either in jail or on probation. At his sentencing hearing after his recent conviction for aggravated assault, the judge sentenced Leo to life in prison as a result of laws in the state of California which call for the doubling of the sentences of felons who have two prior convictions for serious crimes. Laws that incarcerate habitual offenders like Leo for lengthy periods of time are based on the premise that:
A. these offenders cannot conform to the laws of society and they should be incarcerated for a long period of time. B. these offenders will be more useful in prison because they can work in a prison job. C. it will cost less to house them in prison than arrest and prosecute them each time they commit a crime. D. they will only change their behavior if they are incarcerated for a long period of time.
A model that suggests the influences that prisoners bring into prison affect their process of imprisonment is the:
a. deprivation model. b. importation model. c. situational model. d. administrative control model.