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Correctional Administration: Integrating
Theory and Practice
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Richard P. Seiter
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3rd Edition
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, TABLE OF CONTENTS
Correctional Administration: Integrating Theory and Practice (3rd Edition)
Author: Richard Seiter
ISBN: 9780134440934
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Chapter 1: Correctional Administration: Past to Present
Chapter 2: Theories of Leadership and Management
Chapter 3: Leadership and Management of Corrections
Chapter 4: Setting the Tone: Vision, Mission, and Strategic Planning
Chapter 5: The Role of Staff in Corrections
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Chapter 6: Human Resource Management for Corrections
Chapter 7: Staff Organization and Functions
Chapter 8: Supervising and Empowering Employees
Chapter 9: Fiscal Management and the Challenge of Cost Containment
Chapter 10: Managing Risk through Offender Classification
Chapter 11: Managing the External Environment
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Chapter 12: Managing Security in Prisons
Chapter 13: Managing Programs in Prisons
Chapter 14: Managing Basic Services in Prisons
Chapter 15: Critical Issues for Correctional Administration
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Chapter 16: The Future of Correctional Administration
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, CHAPTER 1
Correctional Management and Administration
Chapter 1 Multiple Choice
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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.
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b. Corrections requires a large amount of public funding.
c. Corrections is an important issue for elected officials.
d. All of the above.
Answer: d
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Objective: Define correctional administration and describe the four levels of staff in a
correctional agency.
Page number: 3-4
Level: Intermediate
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3. From 1870 to about 1910, corrections existed in what era?
a. Punishment Era
b. Medical Model Era
c. Reformatory Era
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d. Penitentiary Era
Answer: c
Objective: Outline how the development of correctional philosophy and practice is
integrated with various approaches to correctional administration.
Page number: 8
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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
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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
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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
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Objective: Define the “hands off” doctrine taken by federal courts regarding correctional
issues, and summarize how its collapse has impacted corrections.
Page number: 8-9
Level: Intermediate
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6. The “Medical Model” of managing inmates stemmed from which Era?
a. The Industrial Era
b. The Rehabilitative Era
c. The Era of Transition
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d. The Reformatory Era
Answer: b
Objective: Outline how the development of correctional philosophy and practice is
integrated with various approaches to correctional administration.
Page number: 9
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Level: Basic
7. Which person was responsible for the pronouncement that “nothing works”?
a. Thorsten Sellin
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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
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Richard P. Seiter
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3rd Edition
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, TABLE OF CONTENTS
Correctional Administration: Integrating Theory and Practice (3rd Edition)
Author: Richard Seiter
ISBN: 9780134440934
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Chapter 1: Correctional Administration: Past to Present
Chapter 2: Theories of Leadership and Management
Chapter 3: Leadership and Management of Corrections
Chapter 4: Setting the Tone: Vision, Mission, and Strategic Planning
Chapter 5: The Role of Staff in Corrections
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Chapter 6: Human Resource Management for Corrections
Chapter 7: Staff Organization and Functions
Chapter 8: Supervising and Empowering Employees
Chapter 9: Fiscal Management and the Challenge of Cost Containment
Chapter 10: Managing Risk through Offender Classification
Chapter 11: Managing the External Environment
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Chapter 12: Managing Security in Prisons
Chapter 13: Managing Programs in Prisons
Chapter 14: Managing Basic Services in Prisons
Chapter 15: Critical Issues for Correctional Administration
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Chapter 16: The Future of Correctional Administration
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, CHAPTER 1
Correctional Management and Administration
Chapter 1 Multiple Choice
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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.
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b. Corrections requires a large amount of public funding.
c. Corrections is an important issue for elected officials.
d. All of the above.
Answer: d
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Objective: Define correctional administration and describe the four levels of staff in a
correctional agency.
Page number: 3-4
Level: Intermediate
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3. From 1870 to about 1910, corrections existed in what era?
a. Punishment Era
b. Medical Model Era
c. Reformatory Era
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d. Penitentiary Era
Answer: c
Objective: Outline how the development of correctional philosophy and practice is
integrated with various approaches to correctional administration.
Page number: 8
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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
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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
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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
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Objective: Define the “hands off” doctrine taken by federal courts regarding correctional
issues, and summarize how its collapse has impacted corrections.
Page number: 8-9
Level: Intermediate
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6. The “Medical Model” of managing inmates stemmed from which Era?
a. The Industrial Era
b. The Rehabilitative Era
c. The Era of Transition
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d. The Reformatory Era
Answer: b
Objective: Outline how the development of correctional philosophy and practice is
integrated with various approaches to correctional administration.
Page number: 9
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Level: Basic
7. Which person was responsible for the pronouncement that “nothing works”?
a. Thorsten Sellin
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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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