Chapter 20: Adjustment to Prison Life: Mental Disorder, Life Imprisonment, and Death Row

1. Methods of execution via Death Penalty have historically included:

  1. electrocution;
  2. impaling;
  3. crucifixion;
  4. all of the above.

Answer: D

2. The Death Penalty continues to be used in some USA states, most notably:

  1. Arkansas;
  2. Texas;*
  3. Michigan;
  4. New York.

Answer: B

3. Scaphism is a form of capital punishment where the offender is eaten alive by insects:

  1. True.
  2. False.

Answer: A

4. In the USA prisoners who have been sentenced to execution are housed in a prison area known as the green mile:

  1. True.
  2. False.

Answer: B

5. The average wait time for a prisoner to be executed in the USA is ten months:

  1. True.
  2. False.

Answer: B

6. An unintended side-effect of long-term Death Row incarceration according to Harrison & Tamony(2010), is religious conversion:

  1. True.
  2. False.

Answer: B

7. While not officially recognised as a mental disorder or illness, suicidal ideation as a consequence of being on Death Row is identified as:

  1. Thanatos Syndrome;
  2. Death Row Syndrome;
  3. Absolution Syndrome;
  4. Exsanguination Syndrome.

Answer: B

8. Prisoners in solitary confinement are locked in a cell for approximately 23 hours a day:

  1. True.
  2. False.

Answer: A

9. Extreme forms of isolation, such as solitary confinement, may result in the psychological symptom Catatonia:

  1. True.
  2. False.

Answer: A

10. According to Haney (2009), some view solitary confinement as a heightened level of torture:

  1. True.
  2. False.

Answer: A

11. Capital punishment and solitary confinement are seen as human rights violations by many organisations:

  1. True.
  2. False.

Answer: A

12. USA Death Row inmate Michael Selsor spent 56 years awaiting execution:

  1. True.
  2. False.

Answer: B

13. According to research by Rountree (2012), 11% of death row inmates volunteer for execution:

  1. True.
  2. False.

Answer: A

14. Prisonisation, a form of socialisation upon incarceration is,according to Thomas and Peterson (1977), impacted by:

  1. pre-prison socialisation;
  2. the characteristics of the prison organisation;
  3. inmates expectations of post prison life chances;
  4. all of the above.

Answer: D

15. According to research conducted by Dudeck et al. (2012), European inmates experiencing high levels of trauma in prison develop symptoms of attention deficit disorder due to the limited activities and stimulation afforded prisoners:

  1. True.
  2. False.

Answer: B