Corrections and Punishment

Corrections and Punishment Soc 363 Test # 3

Please read every question carefully.  Good luck!

Essays:

Please answer one of the following essay questions (40 points)

1. Larry is a 42 year old single father of two boys, one of whom is extremely autistic. The boys are 11 and 9 years old.  They have lived in the same apartment for 6 years.  Their mother has a severe substance use disorder and has been in and out of treatment and jail over the past decade.  She is currently incarcerated at South Bay HOC.  They have no other family in the area.

Larry works at Amazon delivering packages and has developed a reputation as a good employee over the past 4 years.  Larry has had 3 convictions of violating restraining orders against 3 different women.  A total of 9 women have taken out restraining orders on him.  (He has violated 3 of them).  A female co-worker named Eileen had taken out a restraining order on Larry and filed criminal charges for malicious destruction of property.  She indicated that after she declined his repeated offers to go out, he showed up at her house on 7 occasions. Eileen told him to stop coming to her house.  He then was at the supermarket where she shops on 6 occasions even though he lives 25 miles away.  He would follow her around the store and ask her out.  When she told the manager, Larry was escorted out of the store and told not to come back.  This is when the co-worker took out the restraining order.  After that Larry texted Eileen saying that “you will be sorry for spurning me – nobody does that!”  Eileen’s car tires were then slashed and the words “Larry is a good guy” were painted on the hood.  A number of the woman’s friends also told her that they received strange messages from Larry on social media about how they were together and that Eileen was taken.

When Larry was charged with violating a restraining order before, he cut off his electronic bracelet and followed the woman when she was out with her husband.  This ended up in a physical altercation in which the husband beat Larry up.

Make the arguments for bail as the prosecutor and defense attorney and then indicate what you would decide for bail as the Judge.

2. Describe the characteristics of the different types of offenders that were discussed in class. Please discuss whether someone can belong to two different groups.

True / False/ Fill in the Blanks / Multiple Choice (5 points each)

3. What year was the Fair Sentencing Act passed?

1. 2004
2. 2007

• 2010

1. 2013

4. True or False: Situational offenders are usually convicted of a serious crime or a crime that caused outrage.

5. These offenders are often at the bottom of the social pecking order in jail and need to be put into protective custody frequently.

1. Situational Offenders
2. Sex Offenders

• Those who assault the police

1. Those charged with murder

6. The ___________________________________ was an effort to train law enforcement officers in critical incidents and to have a model policy in responding to incidents with those who have mental health issues.

7. The Mentally Ill Treatment and Crime Reduction Act was passed in

1. 2004
2. 2007

• 2010

1. 2013

8. Classification systems rely on:

1. Positive incentives for good behavior
2. Negative incentives for bad behavior

• Programs for Offenders

1. Older offenders showing younger offenders the ropes.

1. I, II, and IV only
2. I, II, III, and IV
3. I and III only
4. I, II and III only

9. True or False: The majority of those held in jail have a previous felony conviction.

10. What is the maximum sentence that someone can be held in a House of Correction in here in Massachusetts?

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11. Name 5 areas of concern of offender suicide.

___________________________     ____________________________

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12. Name 5 concerning actions of offenders who may be contemplating suicide. :

___________________________     ____________________________

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13. What is the name of the US Attorney who wrote the report on the DOC violating the constitutional rights of offenders with mental health issues?

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14. True or False: There are more pre-trial detainees than sentenced inmates held in jails and HOC’s in Massachusetts.

15. What year was the Bail Reform Act passed?

16. 1965
17. 1966
18. 1967
19. None of the above