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Although salaries vary widely from state to state, correctional employees often earn more than workers in comparable positions elsewhere.

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It is from its ________ that corrections will get the vision for a new future.

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Modern probation was invented in the United States at the start of the twentieth century.

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According to the text, when a leader's skills fit the situation, .


A) effective leadership follows
B) crime is guaranteed to decline
C) crime is guaranteed to climb
D) prisons will be run more tightly

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The emergence of a(n) ________ has two important consequences for corrections: The field is smarter and it has added a new dynamic to it.

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One issue associated with correctional methods is ________: Offenders should be punished equally in accordance with the seriousness of their offenses.

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Which of the following is NOT a new technology in corrections?


A) computer-assisted solitary confinement
B) eye-recognition systems
C) spatial monitoring systems
D) computer-aided decision making

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When the nation's top penologists and social reformers met in Cincinnati in 1870, they affirmed a mission of that became a model for correctional systems across the globe.

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The emergence of a profession has had two important consequences for corrections; the field is "smarter" and performance meets a higher standard.

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Which of the following is NOT one of the major trends in corrections?


A) evidence-based practices
B) techno-corrections
C) professionalization
D) rising crime rates

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