AOJ Test 4 Complete Study Guide and Administration of Justice Practice Questions Revision
Notes
True or False- A state or federal confinement facility that has custodial authority over adults
sentenced to confinement for less than one year is called a prison. - correct answer ✔✔False
True or False- under lex talion’s the convicted offender was sentenced to a punishment that
most closely approximated the original injury - correct answer ✔✔True
True or false- The Elmira Reformatory housed only inmates over the age of 40. - correct answer
✔✔False
True or False- Most jails are small, but most people who spend time in larger institutions. -
correct answer ✔✔True
True or false- The movement toward the wider use of private prisons is called
corporationalization. - correct answer ✔✔False
True or false- Prisons that flourished during the industrial prison era, and whose intent was to
capitalize on the labor of convicts sentenced to confinement, were part of the reformatory
concept. - correct answer ✔✔False
True or False- The just deserts model was a use of the indeterminate sentence and belief in the
possibility of rehabilitation of late-nineteenth-century correctional model based upon the
offenders. - correct answer ✔✔False
True or False- At one time, England used hulks to house convicted offenders and send them into
exile. - correct answer ✔✔True
, True or false- The 1935 Taft-Hartley Act effectively ended the industrial prison era by restricting
interstate commerce in prison-made goods. - correct answer ✔✔False
True or False - Direct-supervision jails are temporary confinement facilities that eliminate many
of the traditional barriers between inmates and corections staff. - correct answer ✔✔True
The term used by the federal government to denote ultra-high-security prisons is - correct
answer ✔✔ADMAX
The group that most influenced the beginnings of the American prison experience was the -
correct answer ✔✔Quakers
The first American penitentiary, opened in the late 1700s in Philadelphia, was called. - correct
answer ✔✔Walnut Street Jail
Release was granted under a One of the first attempts at parole, as practiced by Ireland's Sir
Walter Crofton, allowed offenders to earn a conditional release by meeting certain objectives. -
correct answer ✔✔Ticket of leave
The feature of Eastern and Western penitentiaries that most clearly characterized the
nineteenthcer Pennsylvania corrections philosophy was - correct answer ✔✔solitary
confinement.
Auburn Prison, established in 1823 in New York State, attempted to reform prisoners by -
correct answer ✔✔using forced labor and the silent system
Lex talionis is a Latin term that means - correct answer ✔✔"the law of retaliation."
Notes
True or False- A state or federal confinement facility that has custodial authority over adults
sentenced to confinement for less than one year is called a prison. - correct answer ✔✔False
True or False- under lex talion’s the convicted offender was sentenced to a punishment that
most closely approximated the original injury - correct answer ✔✔True
True or false- The Elmira Reformatory housed only inmates over the age of 40. - correct answer
✔✔False
True or False- Most jails are small, but most people who spend time in larger institutions. -
correct answer ✔✔True
True or false- The movement toward the wider use of private prisons is called
corporationalization. - correct answer ✔✔False
True or false- Prisons that flourished during the industrial prison era, and whose intent was to
capitalize on the labor of convicts sentenced to confinement, were part of the reformatory
concept. - correct answer ✔✔False
True or False- The just deserts model was a use of the indeterminate sentence and belief in the
possibility of rehabilitation of late-nineteenth-century correctional model based upon the
offenders. - correct answer ✔✔False
True or False- At one time, England used hulks to house convicted offenders and send them into
exile. - correct answer ✔✔True
, True or false- The 1935 Taft-Hartley Act effectively ended the industrial prison era by restricting
interstate commerce in prison-made goods. - correct answer ✔✔False
True or False - Direct-supervision jails are temporary confinement facilities that eliminate many
of the traditional barriers between inmates and corections staff. - correct answer ✔✔True
The term used by the federal government to denote ultra-high-security prisons is - correct
answer ✔✔ADMAX
The group that most influenced the beginnings of the American prison experience was the -
correct answer ✔✔Quakers
The first American penitentiary, opened in the late 1700s in Philadelphia, was called. - correct
answer ✔✔Walnut Street Jail
Release was granted under a One of the first attempts at parole, as practiced by Ireland's Sir
Walter Crofton, allowed offenders to earn a conditional release by meeting certain objectives. -
correct answer ✔✔Ticket of leave
The feature of Eastern and Western penitentiaries that most clearly characterized the
nineteenthcer Pennsylvania corrections philosophy was - correct answer ✔✔solitary
confinement.
Auburn Prison, established in 1823 in New York State, attempted to reform prisoners by -
correct answer ✔✔using forced labor and the silent system
Lex talionis is a Latin term that means - correct answer ✔✔"the law of retaliation."
