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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 hold trials and court hearings
B
To carry out the death penalty
C
To provide a living space for offenders with long-term or life sentencesq
D
To provide temporary holding places for slaves, debtors, diseased people, and pre-trial offenders
2) What was the main purpose of early European punishment?
A
To cause humiliation
B
To inflict pain
C
To kill
D
To get revenge
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
To cause humiliation to the offender
B
To deter others from committing crime
C
None of the above
D
Both of the above
5) Which of the following is a form of corporal punishment?
A
Crucifixion
B
Branding
C
Beheading
D
Boiling and burning
6) Which of the following is a form of capital punishment?
A
Flogging
B
Branding
C
Stocks and pillories
D
Beheading
7) The punishment that requires an offender to leave the community and live elsewhere is called:
A
Transportation
B
Banishment
C
Stocks and pillories
D
Workhouses
8) The punishment that sends an offender from their home nation's to other colonies to work is called:
A
Workhouses
B
Transportation
C
Stocks and pillories
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
Stocks and pillories
C
Transportation
D
Workhouses
10) Which of the reformists below believed that changes in corrections should start with the design of the prisons?
A
Jeremy Bentham
B
John Howard
C
King Henry
D
Cesare Beccaria
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