Chapter 12 Flashcards
A form of custody exercised by prison administrators to isolate an inmate physically from the rest of the prison population for a variety of reasons, including but not limited to protection of the innmate
Administrative segregation
Treatment approach based on the assumption that rewarding inmates for “good behavior” and removing privelages when behavior is unacceptable will product positive changes in behavior
Behavioral models
An approach to therapy that focuses on changing beliefs, fantasies, attitudes, and rationalizations that justify and perpetuate antisocial or other problematic behavior. Commonly used in the treatment of many offenders, including those convicted of sex crimes
Cognitive-behavioral approach
Correctional facilites that are not institutions and allow supervision of juveniles or adults within their own homes or in special community facilities, such as halfway houses
Community-based facilites
The broad term for a wide variety of options that allowed persons convicted of crime to be supervised in the community, such as being placed on probation; term also applies to parole, the supervision of former prisons in the community
community corrections
The legal requirement that a person convicted of a capital crime and sentenced to death must, at the time of execution, be emotionally stable enough to appreciate the reason he or she is being put to death.
Competency to be executed
Pyschologists employed by prisons, jails, and other correctional facilites and programs, or who offer consulting services to these institutions and programs
Correctional psychologists
Those dynamic risk factors that are empirically found to be related to criminal behavior
Criminogenic needs
The intervention of mental health practitioners into emergency or crisis sistuations, such as suicide attempts, emotional agitation, or psychotic behavior displayed during confinement
crisis intervention
Facilites where pretrial detainees are held
Detention centers
Punishment (physical isolation) for violation of rules
Disciplinary segregation
The organizational structure for all facilites holding detainees and sentenced offenders in the federal system
Federal Bureau of Prisons(BOP)
Number of inmates per population
Incarceration rate
Broad term for facilites that confine inmates as well as their rules, policies, and practices
Instutional corrections
Community supervision programs that match the risk level of offenders with their criminogenic and noncriminogenic needs
Intensive rehabilitation supervision