Medium security
In which type of prison can the exterior security be tight while internally providing inmates with many opportunities to attend school, treatment and church programming?
Total institution
What did Goffman (1961) describe as "a place of residence and work where a large number of like-situated individuals, cut off from the wider society for an appreciable period of time, together lead an enclosed, formally administered round of life"?
The means whereby prisoners adopt the subculture of the institution.
Prisonization is best described as:
Mortification
When an inmate suffers from the loss of the many roles he or she occupied in the wider world, this is known as:
To alleviate the pain associated with imprisonment
According to Sykes, why would inmates in prison be motivated to engage in deviance?
Relatively rare
Research finds that mature coping in the prison system is
1821
As of 2005 there were ________ state and federal prisons in the United States.
Importation
When a person entering prison brings with them aspects of his or her own culture from the outside, this is known as:
Goods and services
Which deprivation involves the surrendering of all an inmate's personal property upon entering prison?
Pains of imprisonment
What did Sykes (1958) argue can have the cumulative effect of destroying the psyche of the inmate?
Prison subculture
A subset of culture within a prison that has its own norms, values, beliefs, traditions and even language is known as:
A third
Although only about one fifth of the prisons in the United States are designated as maximum security, because of their size, they hold about ________ of the inmates incarcerated in this country.
The beast
What is not one of the inmate roles identified by Sykes and Messinger (1960):
All are major prison gangs
What is not a major prison gang identified by the FDOC
Autonomy
Which deprivation involves not being able to decide when you eat, sleep and work
Liberty
Which deprivation involves the offender not being able to have contact with whomever they want to whenever they wish
There is relatively little violence
A decent prison is one in which
Convict subculture
When inmates "seek positions of power, influence and sources of information" to obtain goods and services they have been denied, they have adopted the
Rioting
Another form of violence, namely group violence, is known as
Gangs
Groups of people with similar interests who socialize together and who may engage in deviant or criminal activities are known as
0.5
According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics about _______ of the state prison population are incarcerated for violent offenses
Violence
Which of the following is endemic to prisons
Instrumental violence
Which type of violence is used to achieve some end
Expressive violence
Which type of violence is an angry outburst
Both b and c
By design, prisons are intended to house
Mature coping
Dealing with life's problems like a responsive and responsible human being is one aspect of
Elderly
Which population(s) is/are increasing in prisons and jails at an exponential rate?
Security
Which deprivation involves inmates having to live with other inmates at the risk of being victimized?
Mentally ill
The deinstitutionalization of which population came about as a result of the civil rights movement and related efforts to increase the rights of the powerless people
Gays, lesbians, bisexual and transgender
With which population is the true number of inmates in the correctional population not known
F
True or False? Pretrial detainees are generally held in prisons while awaiting their trial
T
True or False? United States' combined incarceration rate for jails and prisons remains the highest in the Western world at 712 per 100,000 U.S. residents as of 2012
T
True or False? Supermax facilities have the greatest internal and external security controls
F
True or False? The pains of imprisonment identified by Sykes inflict physical rather than psychological destruction upon the prisoner.
T
True or False? Prisoners residing in maximum-security facilities are more subject to the pains of imprisonment than that of minimum security facilities
T
True or False? Transgender female prisoners are much more likely to report being sexually assaulted then other inmates
F
True or False? Placing someone in prison is a very expensive decision, costing states and the federal government at least $50,000 per year for adult males and more than double that for women and children.
T
True or False? Goffman (1961) believed that total institutions had the effect of debilitating their inmates
F
True or False? Inmate language is also known as inmate argent
T
True or False? Prison gangs have a hierarchical organizational structure and a set, and often strict, code of conduct for members
T
True or False? Incarceration in a supermax is expensive at about $50,000 per year, as compared to $20,000 to $30,000 to incarcerate an adult male in lower-security prison.
F
True or False? Subcultures are less likely to flourish in environments where groups of individuals are isolated from the larger culture
T
True or False? Because of the materials used in their construction, supermax prisons are at least 2 to 3 times more expensive to build than a "regular" prison.
F
True or False? Deprivation of employment is one of the pains of imprisonment identified by Sykes.
F
True or False? The history of prison gangs is very new to correctional facilities and agencies.
F
True or False? One of the most notorious incidences of prison rioting occurred in Mobile, Alabama, in 1971.
T
True or False? A person experiences Prisonization when they adopt the inmate subculture of the institution.
T
True or False? Data indicates that 4.0% of prison inmates experienced sexual assaults in a given year.
F
True or False? An inmate finding a niche is not ideal for them to begin to learn to maturely cope.
T
True or False? Protecting sexual orientation and gender identity minorities in prisons presents a problem for correctional officials