Chapter 10 Practice Quiz

. Crime control theology describes politicians peddling "nonsense" about how to best address street crime.

. "No-frills" prisons and jails is a movement that sought to restrict or end inmate access to personal items such as computers or radios.

. Prisons for punishment addresses issues like who should be imprisoned, what do the imprisoned deserve, whether corporate entities should be allowed to run and profit from prisons.

. Prisons as punishment addresses issues involving the personnel working in them and their day-to-day activities.

. Malfeasance is the only type of unethical behavior that a correctional officer can participate in.

. Prisons as punishment raises ethical questions about whether incarceration violates basic human rights, including the right to not be tortured or subjected to degrading treatment.

. One indicator of the presence of reciprocity in a prison could include inmates and correctional officers becoming too friendly or officers abusing their power over inmates.

. These are correctional officers who are rule bound and inflexible in their disciplinary practices with inmates.

. This type of correctional officer is one who is extreme in their enforcement of rules.

. Correctional officers who intentionally abuse their discretion for personal gain are engaging in which of the following types of corruption?

. Correctional officer Jones makes it a practice to accept monetary "kickbacks" from inmates for better cell assignments or work details. Jones has engaged in which of the following form of correctional officer misconduct?

. A correctional officer perpetrating theft, embezzlement, or trafficking in contraband has engaged in which form of corruption?

. According to Philip Zimbardo, ostensibly good people can engage in horrific evils such as genocide, massacres, and inspiring mass suicides due to:

. The Stanford Prison Experiment, conducted in 1971, revealed which of the following?

. Which of the following concepts explains the tendency of people to explain bad behavior by overstating the importance of personality traits and underestimating the power of situational forces?

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