Which type of sentencing usually involves a minimum and a maximum, with the actual date of release determined by a parole board or the result of the accumulation of good time?
a. Indeterminate sentencing
b. Determinate sentencing
c. Community sentencing
d. Split sentencing
(Question #2) Which did the Twentieth Century Fund Task Force on Sentencing offer?
a. Standard sentence
b. Presumptive sentence
c. Positive sentence
d. Truth-in-sentencing
(Question #3) What concept holds that the punishment is to be commensurate with the seriousness of the crime?
a. Eye for an eye
b. Justice
c. Just desserts
d. None of the above
(Question #4) Which of the following have severly restricted discretionary/parole releases?
a. Determinate sentencing laws
b. Truth-in-sentencing laws
c. Both (a) and (b)
d. Neither (a) nor (b)
(Question #5) The 1971 inmate uprising in what prison lead to a concerted attack on the corrections model and the indeterminate sentence?
a. Auburn
b. Pennsylvania
c. San Quentin
d. Attica
(Question #6) In what decade did the racial makeup of prisons change dramatically while radical political movements on the outside impacted correctional institutions?
a. 1950s
b. 1960s
c. 1970s
d. 1980s
(Question #7) Who referred to prison as a total institution; a place of residence and work where a large number of like-suited individuals, cut off from the wider society for an appreciable period of time, together lead an enclosed, formally administered round of life?
a. Alexander Maconochie
b. Torsten Erikkson
c. Erving Goffman
d. Zebulon Brockway
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