Study Guide: Exam 3 Technology and the Criminal Justice System Professor Byrne Fall 2012

Required Reading in Text: Chapters 10,11,12, 13.

Required Links, online reading, and Websites to visit:

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Using Technology to Make Prisons and Jails Safer

Super-Max Prison Video

Super-Max Prison - A Clean Version of Hell

Gangs and Cell Phones

Classification of High-Risk and Special Management Prisoners

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Prison Technology Video

Maximum Impact: Targeting Supervision on Higher-Risk People, Places and Times

Key Terms to review:

  1. Types of contraband detection devices used in prison/jail; types and effectiveness
  2. Types of duress alarm systems for corrections officers in indoor and outdoor settings
  3. Types of language translation devices for use within prisons and in community corrections
  4. Remote monitoring of inmate movements in cells and throughout prison;
  5. Inmate-staff ratios in US vs Ireland
  6. Types of perimeter security technology; new cell extraction technology
  7. Less than lethal force in prison; types of technology used
  8. Super-max prison; extent of use
  9. Inmate classifications systems: external and internal; % of prisoners classified as max, mod, min; use of special population housing
  10. Types of monitoring technology for inmate phone calls and financial transactions
  11. Within-prison crime analysis and response capabilities ; hot spots
  12. Extent of Inmate health problems (prevalence of various mental and physical health problems)
  13. Simulated “mock” riot
  14. Electronic supervision tools (RF vs. GPS Devices); extent of use
  15. The use of breathalyzers and “instant” drug testing devices to monitor compliance with conditions of release/supervision
  16. The use of polygraph tests and penile plethysmograph in sex offender treatment
  17. What went wrong in the supervision of the sex offender,PhillipGarrido ?
  18. Kiosks to monitor offender location, using biometric devices; extent of use in NYC
  19. Instruments used for drug offender classification, sex offender classification, mentally ill offender classification, and multiple-problem offender classification
  20. HATS; improvement in information sharing with other C.J. agencies, mental health, public health, and community groups
  21. Offender change strategies: what is motivational interviewing?
  22. Maximum Impact: Key findings and recommendations from Byrne review
  23. New offender reentry program models: policing model (Lowell), restorative justice model ( Burlington, VT), mentor model ( Tacoma, Washington), housing incentive model ( Baltimore, Md).
  24. Two characteristics of successful reentry programs: partnership and ownership
  25. What works? Research on the effectiveness of drug treatment, probation, parole, electronic monitoring, day reporting centers, and residential community corrections.
  26. Prisoner radicalization
  27. California vs, Johnson
  28. Prison gang identification: state-level variation
  29. Effectiveness of remote alcohol sensors
  30. Effectiveness of ignition interlock systems
  31. Effectiveness of drug tests
  32. Extent of drug testing in community corrections
  33. Escape/flight risk
  34. LSI_R: what is it?
  35. Field Search: what is it?
  36. % of drug offenders in federal and state prison populations
  37. % of probationers who successfully complete probation
  38. % of parolees who successfully complete parole.
  39. Number of offenders under correctional control in the US; % in prison and % under community supervision
  40. Cost of corrections; common strategies used to reduce corrections costs

Sample Study Questions:

1.______are identification cards that contain the inmate’s photograph and that are integrated with a circuit chip that stores pertinent information about each prisoner.

A. Plethsysmographs

B. Smart Cards

C. Courtools

D. All of the above

E. None of the above

2Approximately half of all new prison admissions nationwide each year are for technical violations of the conditions of probation and/or parole. To eliminate this source of new prison admissions, the legislature in the state of ______passed a law that essentially outlaws this practice.

A. California

B. Massachusetts

C. Washington

D. Arizona

3.According to a recent review by Stowell, due to its versatility and ability to communicate in both indoor and outdoor environments, duress notification systems based on______may be forthcoming.

A. RFID

B. MDT

C. SYSTRAN

D. CMC

4.The use of video surveillance was not found to be as an effective way to help reduce levels of violence (perpetrated by inmates and guards) in jails and prisons.

A. True

B. False

5.______operates by translating key phrases spoken into the machine by an officer into one of 50 different languages . The ______is not a dynamic language translator, meaning that it cannot be used for the purposes of carrying on a direct conversation with an inmate. Rather, the ______stores thousands of pre-recorded phrases in the various languages, which can be used to obtain “basic information” during the questioning of non-English-speaking inmates .

A. SYSTRAN

B. Voice Response Translator (VRT)

C. JNET

D. All of the above

E. B and C only

6.The current trend in handling many high-risk inmates, approximately 10% 0f the prison population (or 200,000 inmates nationally), has been to remove them from the general prison population and to place them in ultra-secure housing units known as supermax prisons.

A. True

B. False

7. In addition to its role in preventing drunk driving, the______device functions as a surveillance tool for community supervision officers. A memory chip in the mechanism can store data that can be retrieved each time the vehicle is serviced. Examples of data that can be downloaded include number and outcome of vehicle starts, driver’s blood alcohol content per test and retest, tamper attempts, and total number of hours of operation

A. GPS

B. Plethysmograph

C. Sousveillance

D. Ignition interlock

8.According to the results of a recent NCCHC review of correctional health care , the rate of schizophrenia or other psychotic disorders is______times greater among prisoners as compared to the U.S. population., while the rate of bipolar disorder is______times greater .

A. three to five; 1.5 to 3

B. ten to fifteen; 10 to 12

C. three to five; 10-12

D. ten to fifteen; 1.5 to 3

9. The prevalence of Infectious disease among prisons is a serious problem, with the rate of AIDS 5 times higher, Active tuberculosis 4 times greater, Hepititis C 9-10 times higher, and the rate of HIV infection 8-9 times higherthan the U.S. population.

A. True

B. False

10. The ______is the most common means of assessing the nature and extent of the offender’s deviant sexual arousal, a practice known as phallometric assessment

A. Privatization

B. Portocaval Shunt

C. Plethysmograph

D. None of the above