Chapter 3 Self-Check Quizzes

Correctional Rationales
. Sentencing is the first step in the court process once an individual has been convicted of a crime.

. Fixed sentence lengths characterize determinate sentencing.

. The Classical School argues that the sanction should be tailored to the circumstances of the individual.

. General deterrence focuses on the individuals who committed the crime so that they will not reoffend

. Electronic monitoring is an example of a sanction that is aligned with the incapacitation philosophy.

. Rehabilitation aims to improve the life of the offender, and to improve their impact on the social group or polity.

. Participation in restorative justice programs is voluntary.

. The phrase "under lock and key" is a good motto for the goal of rehabilitation.

. Research on many diversion programs has indicated that more offenders respond to the positive treatments than simply being punished.

. Prison is an example of a diversion program.

. Which of the following would not be considered a mala in se offense?

. __________________ seeks to repair the harm to the victim, community, and offender and to reintegrate the offender into society.

. What theory argues that by calling someone "criminal" will encourage future criminality?

. Both specific and general deterrence are vulnerable to inconsistent apprehension and erratic __________________.

. Most citizens decide to conform their behavior to expected norms because they believe that it is right, not because they actually ______________.

. Which of the following were discussed in the text concerning the interplay between Classism and Positivism?

. Of the following rationales for correction intervention, which one does not fall under Positivism?

. An individual's decision to sell cocaine is based on needing medicine for his child is most in line with how this school of thought understands crime and behavior?

. "I decide to steal a car because the keys are in it and I do not see any cameras or anyone else around to catch me" is a good example of what concept from the Classical School?

. Consider this statement, "He stole from the grocery store because he had to feed his children while she stole from the same store because she did not know right from wrong." What school of thought would see these theft offenses as more than individual free will?

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