Assignment- Review Questions
Overview
This assignment explores the adult offender and current trends relating to male and female offenders.
Instructions
Use Chapter to help answer the following questions in a Word document. Your answers should be double spaced. There is not a required length for these answers, but you must answer the questions in complete sentences in your own words.
1. What is a special offender, and why do they require special handling while under correctional supervision?
2. What role have antipsychotic drugs played in the deinstitutionalization of mentally ill individuals?
3. What problems do mentally ill inmates cause?
4. List the reasons for the increased proportion of elderly inmates in the prison population.
5. Why do sex offenders present such a difficult challenge for management in both community and institutional settings?
6. What is the containment model of supervising sex offenders?
7. What is civil commitment and who is it used for?
Submit your completed assignment to the Module 3 Assignment 1 folder: Chapter Review Questions.
Deliverable
• Word document
• Times New Roman
• 12pt font
• One inch margins
• Double spaced