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Reid, Criminal Justice, 9th ed 1 Student Study Guide Flashcards--Chapter 10 Student Study Guide Life in Prison Chapter 10

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Definitions Front Back Sometimes called civil liberties; all the natural Civil rights rights guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution (or by individual state constitutions), such as free speech and the right to religious beliefs and practices; also the body of law concerning natural rights.

The prison store as well as the incidental items Commissary sold to inmates; also an inmate's account, which is debited when an item is purchased, as inmates are not permitted to have money within correctional facilities.

A corrections employee with supervisory Correctional officer (CO) power over a suspect or convicted offender in custody.

A model of prisonization based on the belief Deprivation model that the prison subculture stems from the way inmates adapt to the severe psychological and physical losses imposed by imprisonment.

A policy that courts use to justify Hands-off doctrine nonintervention in the daily administration of corrections agencies.

A model based on the assumption that the Importation model inmate subculture arises not only from internal prison experiences but also from external patterns of behavior that the inmates take into prison.

The rules or standards of behavior, shared by Norms members of a social group, that define Reid, Criminal Justice, 9th ed 2 Student Study Guide Flashcards--Chapter 10 appropriate behavior.

The process of an inmate's becoming Prisonization accustomed to the subculture of prison life.

The interrelationship of roles, acts, and statuses Social system of people who make up the social structure; a social group or set of interacting persons or groups considered a unitary whole because it reflects the common values, social norms, and objectives of the individuals whom it comprises, even though the group is considered distinct from those individuals. Reid, Criminal Justice, 9th ed 3 Student Study Guide Flashcards--Chapter 10

True/False Front Back In the 1974 case of Ruffin v. Commonwealth, False the U.S. Supreme Court held that, although an incarcerated person loses some rights because of institutional needs, “a prisoner is not wholly stripped of constitutional protections when he is imprisoned for crime.”

The commissary is where offenders are True allowed to purchase items for personal use such as snacks, soap, etc.

Governors are responsible for hiring and firing False wardens or superintendents within their respective jurisdictions.

In many jurisdictions, a two-year college False degree is required for entry-level officer positions.

In 1995, a federal court held that the U.S. True Constitution does not prohibit the viewing of a male inmate by a female correctional officer.

Under the authoritarian regime of prison False administration and management, inmate cooperation was not necessary to maintain peace within institutions.

More than 90 percent of all female inmates are False mothers, with three-fourths having children under the age of 18.

The pains of imprisonment, particularly the False concept of deprivation, do not differ for men and women.

The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that states True may create policies that restrict the number and age of visitors an inmate may receive. Reid, Criminal Justice, 9th ed 4 Student Study Guide Flashcards--Chapter 10

Research suggests that in both prisons and jails True the highest rates of inmate rape occurred in overcrowded facilities that were understaffed. Reid, Criminal Justice, 9th ed 5 Student Study Guide Flashcards--Chapter 10

Questions Front Back Which of the following generally does not Inmates have visitors happen during the orientation period in a prison?

From 1872 until the 1960s, for the most part Hands-off doctrine the federal courts observed a ______toward inmates and prisons, reasoning that prison administration is a part of the executive, not the judicial, branch of government.

______require constitutional protection; Rights; privileges ______are there by the grace of prison officials and may be withdrawn at their discretion.

______may be restricted if prison Rights officials can show that the restriction is necessary for security or for other recognized penological purposes, such as discipline and order.

In ______, the Court stated that allegations Estelle v. Gamble of "inadvertent failure to provide adequate medical care" or of a "negligent ... diagnos[is]" do not establish the requisite state of mind for a violation of the cruel and unusual punishment clause.

In 1992 in ______, the U.S. Supreme Hudson v. McMillian Court held that inmates may bring actions for cruel and unusual punishment against prison officials who engage in physical force that results in injuries, even if those injuries are not significant.

Which of the following is the most important Increased attention to professionalism reform in prison administration?

What is the primary function of correctional Maintain internal security and discipline officers?

Who introduced the concept of prisonization? Donald Clemmer Reid, Criminal Justice, 9th ed 6 Student Study Guide Flashcards--Chapter 10 Reid, Criminal Justice, 9th ed 7 Student Study Guide Flashcards--Chapter 10

Fill-in-the-Blank Front Back ______have the most extensive contact Correctional officer and perhaps the greatest effect on inmates.

The new inmate encounters prison subculture Prisonization through the process of socialization, or ______.

In his study at the Washington State Stanton Wheeler Reformatory, ______found that the degree to which inmates became involved in prisonization varied by the length of time the inmate was in prison.

The traditional approach to an understanding of Importation the inmate subculture, according to John Irwin and Donald R. Cressey, is that inmates take patterns of behavior with them to prison. This constitutes the ______model.

When an inmate arrives at prison, both the Resocialization; prisonization formal organization and the inmate society compete for his allegiance; these two represent conflicting processes of socialization. Charles W. Thomas calls the efforts of the formal organization ______and those of the inmate society ______.

In 1976, the U.S. Supreme Court held that an Deliberate indifference inmate may bring a successful action against prison officials who deny him or her adequate medical care for a serious medical problem only if it can be shown that the officials acted with ______to the inmate’s needs.

The most common disease among inmates is Hepatitis C ______, with approximately 29 percent of inmates in a study in Maryland testing positive (compared to about 2 percent of the general population).

In 2004, Congress enacted the Mentally Ill Offender Treatment and Crime ______Act to divert Reduction Act Reid, Criminal Justice, 9th ed 8 Student Study Guide Flashcards--Chapter 10 mentally ill persons to special courts for treatment. The 1994 revision of the federal criminal code Grants eliminated ______that provided college courses in prison.

Two of the most destructive and highly Attica, New York; Santa Fe, New Mexico publicized U.S. prison riots occurred in 1971 in ______and in 1980 in ______.