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Correctional Administration: Integrating Theory and Practice, 3rd
edition
By Richard Seiter
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AR
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, Table of Content
PART 1: CORRECTIONAL MANAGEMENT AND ADMINISTRATION
1. Correctional Administration: Past to Present
2. Theories of Leadership and Management
3. Leadership and Management of Corrections
4. Setting the Tone: Vision, Mission, and Strategic Planning
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PART 2: MANAGING CORRECTIONAL STAFF
5. The Role of Staff in Corrections
6. Human Resource Management for Corrections
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7. Staff Organization and Functions
8. Supervising and Empowering Employees
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PART 3: MANAGING THE ENVIRONMENT
9. Fiscal Management and the Challenge of Cost Containment
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10. Managing Risk through Offender Classification
11. Managing the External Environment
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PART 4: MANAGING PRISONS
12. Managing Security in Prisons
13. Managing Programs in Prisons
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14. Managing Basic Services in Prisons
PART 5: ISSUES FOR NOW AND THE FUTURE
15. Critical Issues for Correctional Administration
16. The Future of Correctional Administration
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CHAPTER 1
Correctional Management and Administration
Chapter 1 Multiple Choice
1. Four types of correctional staff as described in the text are:
a. Line, supervisor, executive, and political appointments
b. Line, supervisor, manager, and leader
c. Line, manager, executive, and leader
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d. Uniformed, service, treatment, supervision
Answer: b
Objective: Define correctional administration and describe the four levels of staff in a
correctional agency.
Page number: 2-3
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Level: Basic
2. Correctional administration is complex today due to what factor?
a. Corrections is a highly visible activity.
b. Corrections requires a large amount of public funding.
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c. Corrections is an important issue for elected officials.
d. All of the above.
Answer: d
Objective: Define correctional administration and describe the four levels of staff in a
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correctional agency.
Page number: 3-4
Level: Intermediate
3. From 1870 to about 1910, corrections existed in what era?
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a. Punishment Era
b. Medical Model Era
c. Reformatory Era
d. Penitentiary Era
Answer: c
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Objective: Outline how the development of correctional philosophy and practice is
integrated with various approaches to correctional administration.
Page number: 8
Level: Basic
4. Two men recognized as developing the concept of indeterminate sentencing, conditional
release, preparing offenders for release, and transitioning to lower classes of
classification were which of following?
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a. Alexander Maconochie and Sir Walter Crofton
b. John Locke and David Hume
c. John Howard and Austin Wilkes
d. Sanford Bates and John Augustus
Answer: a
Objective: Outline how the development of correctional philosophy and practice is
integrated with various approaches to correctional administration.
Page number: 8
Level: Basic
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5. One law that had an adverse affect on prison industries in the 1930s was which of the
following?
a. Teamster v. UNICOR
b. Wolf v. McDonnell
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c. Americans with Disabilities Act
d. Hawes v. Cooper Act
Answer: d
Objective: Define the “hands off” doctrine taken by federal courts regarding correctional
issues, and summarize how its collapse has impacted corrections.
LI
Page number: 8-9
Level: Intermediate
BR
6. The “Medical Model” of managing inmates stemmed from which Era?
a. The Industrial Era
b. The Rehabilitative Era
c. The Era of Transition
d. The Reformatory Era
AR
Answer: b
Objective: Outline how the development of correctional philosophy and practice is
integrated with various approaches to correctional administration.
Page number: 9
Level: Basic
Y
7. Which person was responsible for the pronouncement that “nothing works”?
a. Thorsten Sellin
b. Donald Clemmer
c. Robert Martinson
d. Richard Quinney
Answer: c
Objective: Identify the reasons for the death of the medical model in corrections.
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Correctional Administration: Integrating Theory and Practice, 3rd
edition
By Richard Seiter
LU
XE
LI
BR
AR
Y
, Table of Content
PART 1: CORRECTIONAL MANAGEMENT AND ADMINISTRATION
1. Correctional Administration: Past to Present
2. Theories of Leadership and Management
3. Leadership and Management of Corrections
4. Setting the Tone: Vision, Mission, and Strategic Planning
LU
PART 2: MANAGING CORRECTIONAL STAFF
5. The Role of Staff in Corrections
6. Human Resource Management for Corrections
XE
7. Staff Organization and Functions
8. Supervising and Empowering Employees
LI
PART 3: MANAGING THE ENVIRONMENT
9. Fiscal Management and the Challenge of Cost Containment
BR
10. Managing Risk through Offender Classification
11. Managing the External Environment
AR
PART 4: MANAGING PRISONS
12. Managing Security in Prisons
13. Managing Programs in Prisons
Y
14. Managing Basic Services in Prisons
PART 5: ISSUES FOR NOW AND THE FUTURE
15. Critical Issues for Correctional Administration
16. The Future of Correctional Administration
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CHAPTER 1
Correctional Management and Administration
Chapter 1 Multiple Choice
1. Four types of correctional staff as described in the text are:
a. Line, supervisor, executive, and political appointments
b. Line, supervisor, manager, and leader
c. Line, manager, executive, and leader
LU
d. Uniformed, service, treatment, supervision
Answer: b
Objective: Define correctional administration and describe the four levels of staff in a
correctional agency.
Page number: 2-3
XE
Level: Basic
2. Correctional administration is complex today due to what factor?
a. Corrections is a highly visible activity.
b. Corrections requires a large amount of public funding.
LI
c. Corrections is an important issue for elected officials.
d. All of the above.
Answer: d
Objective: Define correctional administration and describe the four levels of staff in a
BR
correctional agency.
Page number: 3-4
Level: Intermediate
3. From 1870 to about 1910, corrections existed in what era?
AR
a. Punishment Era
b. Medical Model Era
c. Reformatory Era
d. Penitentiary Era
Answer: c
Y
Objective: Outline how the development of correctional philosophy and practice is
integrated with various approaches to correctional administration.
Page number: 8
Level: Basic
4. Two men recognized as developing the concept of indeterminate sentencing, conditional
release, preparing offenders for release, and transitioning to lower classes of
classification were which of following?
101
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a. Alexander Maconochie and Sir Walter Crofton
b. John Locke and David Hume
c. John Howard and Austin Wilkes
d. Sanford Bates and John Augustus
Answer: a
Objective: Outline how the development of correctional philosophy and practice is
integrated with various approaches to correctional administration.
Page number: 8
Level: Basic
LU
5. One law that had an adverse affect on prison industries in the 1930s was which of the
following?
a. Teamster v. UNICOR
b. Wolf v. McDonnell
XE
c. Americans with Disabilities Act
d. Hawes v. Cooper Act
Answer: d
Objective: Define the “hands off” doctrine taken by federal courts regarding correctional
issues, and summarize how its collapse has impacted corrections.
LI
Page number: 8-9
Level: Intermediate
BR
6. The “Medical Model” of managing inmates stemmed from which Era?
a. The Industrial Era
b. The Rehabilitative Era
c. The Era of Transition
d. The Reformatory Era
AR
Answer: b
Objective: Outline how the development of correctional philosophy and practice is
integrated with various approaches to correctional administration.
Page number: 9
Level: Basic
Y
7. Which person was responsible for the pronouncement that “nothing works”?
a. Thorsten Sellin
b. Donald Clemmer
c. Robert Martinson
d. Richard Quinney
Answer: c
Objective: Identify the reasons for the death of the medical model in corrections.
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