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History Of Institutional Corrections
Test Description: This will test your knowledge of the development of our modern day prison system.
Instructions: Answer all questions to get your test result.
1) Which of the following best explains the purpose of early European jails?
A
To provide a living space for offenders with long-term or life sentencesq
B
To hold trials and court hearings
C
To provide temporary holding places for slaves, debtors, diseased people, and pre-trial offenders
D
To carry out the death penalty
2) What was the main purpose of early European punishment?
A
To get revenge
B
To cause humiliation
C
To inflict pain
D
To kill
3) Early European punishment was aimed at a person's:
A
Friends
B
Reputation
C
Body and property
D
Family
4) Why was early European punishment carried out publicly?
A
None of the above
B
To cause humiliation to the offender
C
To deter others from committing crime
D
Both of the above
5) Which of the following is a form of corporal punishment?
A
Beheading
B
Branding
C
Boiling and burning
D
Crucifixion
6) Which of the following is a form of capital punishment?
A
Stocks and pillories
B
Beheading
C
Flogging
D
Branding
7) The punishment that requires an offender to leave the community and live elsewhere is called:
A
Banishment
B
Stocks and pillories
C
Transportation
D
Workhouses
8) The punishment that sends an offender from their home nation's to other colonies to work is called:
A
Stocks and pillories
B
Workhouses
C
Transportation
D
Banishment
9) Which of the following forerunners of punishment is most closely related to our modern-day U.S. prison system?
A
Banishment
B
Transportation
C
Stocks and pillories
D
Workhouses
10) Which of the reformists below believed that changes in corrections should start with the design of the prisons?
A
Cesare Beccaria
B
King Henry
C
Jeremy Bentham
D
John Howard
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