Test Bank for Correctional Administration: Integrating Theory and Practice 3rd Edition by Richard Seiter (Chapter 1-16)

TEST BANK
Correctional Administration: Integrating Theory and Practice 3rd Edition
by Richard Seiter
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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

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

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
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13. Managing Programs in Prisons

14. Managing Basic Services in Prisons

PART 5: ISSUES FOR NOW AND THE FUTURE
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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
d. Uniformed, service, treatment, supervision
Answer: b
Objective: Define correctional administration and describe the four levels of staff in a
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correctional agency.
Page number: 2-3
Level: Basic

2. Correctional administration is complex today due to what factor?
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a. Corrections is a highly visible activity.
b. Corrections requires a large amount of public funding.
c. Corrections is an important issue for elected officials.
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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
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

5. One law that had an adverse affect on prison industries in the 1930s was which of the
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following?
a. Teamster v. UNICOR
b. Wolf v. McDonnell
c. Americans with Disabilities Act
d. Hawes v. Cooper Act
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Answer: d
Objective: Define the “hands off” doctrine taken by federal courts regarding correctional
issues, and summarize how its collapse has impacted corrections.
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Page number: 8-9
Level: Intermediate

6. The “Medical Model” of managing inmates stemmed from which Era?
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a. The Industrial Era
b. The Rehabilitative Era
c. The Era of Transition
d. The Reformatory Era
Answer: b
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Objective: Outline how the development of correctional philosophy and practice is
integrated with various approaches to correctional administration.
Page number: 9
Level: Basic

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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