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Chapter 12: Correctional Psychology in Adult Settings Flashcards

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Who is under correctional supervision?

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People in prisons and jails as well as those in the community (parole and probation)

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Factors that account for the overall fewer number of individuals under correctional supervision

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Falling crime rates

The diversion of low-level offenders to special courts

Court decision requiring solutions to overcrowded prisons in the 1990s
- Prompted some states to decriminalize some offenders or shorten sentences

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Purposes of jails

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Temporary detention facilities for those awaiting trial or a resolution of their cases

Facilities for convicted offenders serving short sentences
- Typically under a year

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One of the nation’s largest jails

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New York’s Rikers Island

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Majority of all offenders (approximately two thirds) in both federal and state systems are…

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Under community supervision

- Includes probation and parole

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Community corrections

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The broad term for a wide variety of options that allow 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 prisoners in the community.

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Who represents a majority of offenders under community supervision?

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Probationers represent majority of offenders under community supervision
- Because they are predominantly nonviolent offenders

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Probation

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A sentence to serve time in the community, subject to supervision and conditions imposed by courts or probation officers.
- Usually as an alternative to incarceration

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Parole

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The conditional release of an offender after completing a portion of their sentence.
- Represents 18% of offenders under community supervision

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Crimes offenders are incarcerated for

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Violent offenses
- Robbery, murder, rape/sexual assault, and aggravated assault

Drug offenses
- Half the inmates in the federal system

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Crimes rates of women

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Higher rates of drug offenses

Lower rates of violent offenses

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Institutional corrections

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Broad term for facilities that confine inmates; applies also to their rules, policies, and practices.

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Jails

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Facilities operated by local governments to hold persons temporarily detained, awaiting trial, or sentences to short-term (typically under 1 year) confinement after having been convicted of a misdemeanor.

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Prisons

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Correctional facilities operated by state and federal governments to hold persons convicted of felonies and sentence generally to terms of more than 1 year.

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Community-based facilities

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Correctional facilities that are not institutions and allow supervision of juveniles or adults within their own homes or in special community facilities, such as halfway houses.

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Intermediate sanctions

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Supervision that is less restrictive than residential placement but more restrictive than the standard probation under which the juvenile or adult offender remains in their own home with conditions attached. Sometimes referred to as probation-plus or parole-plus. Examples may include intensive supervision, day-reporting requirements, or electronic monitoring.

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Pretrial detainees

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Those persons held in jail before trial because either they are unable to afford bail, or they were denied bail because they were considered dangerous.
- Up to 70% of the population

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Detention centers

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Facilities where pretrial detainees are held. Jails serve as detention centers as well as incarceration for persons sentenced to short terms, typically under 1 year.

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Supermax prisons

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High-security facilities (or units within a maximum-security prison) supposedly intended to hold the most troublesome, violent inmates, either in complete isolation or in two-person quarters.

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Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP)

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The major federal agency that coordinates all services provided in federal facilities, such as detention centers, prisons, and hospitals. The BOP also supports research on many aspects of corrections and provides internships for doctoral students interested in careers in corrections.

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Entry shock

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A problem for persons being held in jail for the first time

Suicide is the leading cause of death in jails

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Right to treatment

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Statutory right that stipulates that incarcerated and institutionalized persons have a right to receive care and treatment suited to their needs.

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Right to treatment case

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Case that established this right is Estelle v. Gamble (1976)

An inmate argued that his Eighth Amendment protection against cruel and unusual punishment had been violated

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Right to refuse treatment

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Cannot be forced to participate in treatment programs

- Applies to both physical and psychological treatment

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Rehabilitation

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Any attempt intended to bring about changes in behavioral or thought patterns.

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Privacy and confidentiality

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Inmates have very little right to privacy in prison or jail settings

The confidentiality of psychological records is a topic of direct concern to the forensic psychologist
- Have an ethical obligation to preserve inmate confidentiality to the maximum extent possible

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Competency to be executed

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The legal requirement that a person convicted of a capital crime and sentenced to death must, at the time of execution, be emotionally stable or intellectually capable enough to understand the meaning of being put to death.

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Disciplinary segregation

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Punishment (physical isolation) for violation of rules. Also may be called solitary confinement.

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Protective custody

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A form of isolation in which the inmate is separated from others for their own safety.

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Administrative segregation

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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 inmate.

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Correctional psychologist has specific training in…

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Correctional philosophy
Systems
Offender management 
Forensic report writing
Treatment aimed at reducing recidivism
Outcome research
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Psychology Services Inmate Questionnaire (PSIQ)

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All inmates entering the Federal Bureau of Prisons…

Administered the Psychology Services Inmate Questionnaire (PSIQ)
- Fill-in-the-blank self-report form that assesses past mental health services and current psychological problems

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The Personality Assessment Screener

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Promising for quickly tapping psychological dysfunction in jail detainees, incarcerated sex offenders, and inmates in the general population

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Screening process focuses on

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Suicide risk
Indications of substance abuse
History of hospitalizations and medications
Indicators of violence

Few facilities have psychological staff so the initial screening may be done by corrections staff

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The goals of treatment can be characterized broadly as

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Mental health stabilization
- Helped to adjust to their environment and develop effective coping skills

Rehabilitation
- Treatment that will try to stop the individual from future offending

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Most common treatments

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Person-centered therapy, cognitive therapy, behavior therapy, group and milieu therapy, transactional analysis, reality therapy, and responsibility therapy

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Risk/needs/responsivity (RNR)

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Principles identified by Andrews and Bonita, widely believed and documented to be associated with effective psychological treatment.

Effective in achieving rehabilitative goals

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Criminogenic needs

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Those dynamic risk factors that have been empirically found to be related to criminal behavior, such as substance abuse or misogynistic attitudes.

Subject to change

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Noncriminogenic needs

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Needs that are subject to change but have little influence on an offender’s criminal behavior. Psychological states such as depression, anxiety, or low self-esteem are examples used by some researchers.

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Level of Service Inventory-Revised (LSI-R)

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Assesses dynamic and static risk factors to determine offenders needs for services as well risk of reconviction, including for violent offenses.

One of the most prominent

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Level of Service/Case Management Inventory (LS/CMI)

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A modification of the LSI that focuses on determining the clinical and social services the individual should ideally receive.

Helps identify risks and needs as well as interventions that might be used to change an offender’s patterns

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The therapeutic community (TC)

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Trained counselors interact with a small group of offenders, establishing therapeutic relationships and engaging them in a process of taking responsibility for and changing their substance-abusing behavior

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Instrumental aggression

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Committed for the purposes of achieving a particular goal

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Programs for violent offenders have two common features

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1) teaching techniques for self-regulating aggression
- Taught relaxation skills

2) addressing cognitive deficits
- Offenders are challenged to confront the irrational beliefs or biases that lead to violence

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Cognitive-behavioral approach

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An approach to therapy that focuses on changing beliefs, fantasies, attitudes, and rationalizations that justify and perpetuate antisocial or other problematic behavior. Believed to be the most effective treatment approach for both adult and juvenile offenders.

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Cognitive-behavioral approach had positive effects on treatment of sex offenders

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Short-term effectiveness in eliminating exhibitionism and fetishism, some forms of pedophilia, and sexual violence and aggression

Most effective method for the temporary cessation of deviant sexual behavior in motivated individuals

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Relapse prevention

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A method of treatment primarily designed to prevent a relapse of an undesired behavior pattern. Often used in sexual offender treatment.

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Crisis intervention

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The intervention of mental health practitioners into emergency or crisis situations, such as suicide attempts, emotional agitation, or psychotic behavior displayed during confinement

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