Chapter 19: Punishment, Rehabilitation, and Psychology

1. According to Fazel & Seewald (2012), 40% of people inside prison are likely to suffer from mental health issues:

  1. True.
  2. False.

Answer: B

2. Female prisoners are more likely than males to develop mental illness:

  1. True.
  2. False.

Answer: A

3. The increased incidence of  mental illness associated with incarceration  might be attributed to:

  1. mental illness leads to criminal activity;
  2. inaccurate diagnoses by untrained prison staff;
  3. the criminalisation of mental illness;
  4. none of the above.

Answer: D

4. Mental disorder and violence share several risk factors:

  1. True.
  2. False.

Answer: A

5. High security hospitals house those people who been detained under mental health legislation:

  1. after suspicion of or conviction for serious crimes;
  2. based on the recommendation of elite criminal profilers;
  3. if the those people report hearing voices;
  4. none of the above.

Answer: A

6. People who have committed a serious crime but have been declared insane are likely to be housed in:

  1. a high security prison;
  2. a drug rehabilitation program;
  3. a prison hospital wing;
  4. none of the above.

Answer: D

7. High security hospitals house a large proportion of people who have committed embezzlement:

  1. True.
  2. False.

Answer: B

8. People with mental illness are over-represented in the prison population possibly because involvement in criminal behaviour leads to mental illness:

  1. True.
  2. False.

Answer: B

9. Self-injury is seen as a risk factor for:

  1. suicide;
  2. homicide;
  3. filicide;
  4. none of the above.

Answer: A

10. Difficult prisoners may be dealt with by solitary confinement. This is problematic because the classification of difficult may be due to a mental illness which will be exacerbated by solitary confinement:

  1. True.
  2. False.

Answer: A

11. Prison staff view mental disorder as leading what in inmates?

  1. sedation;
  2. catatonia;
  3. inhibition;
  4. none of the above.

Answer: D

12. Reactive aggression differs from instrumental aggression because:

  1. it is goal directed aggression;
  2. it is manifested as a result of a threat and/or fear;
  3. it is strictly verbal in nature;
  4. it is exclusive to males.

Answer: B

13. Individuals can be detained involuntarily under mental health legislation known as the, Dangerous and Severe Personality Disorder Act:

  1. True.
  2. False.

Answer: B

14. Individuals who are deemed in need of mental health treatment can be forced to receive it due to provisions in the Mental Health Act:

  1. True.
  2. False.

Answer: A

15. The term bedlam is derived from which UK mental hospital?

  1. Bethlem Royal Hospital;
  2. Rampton;
  3. Ashworth;
  4. Broadmoor.

Answer: A