Chapter 13

Question 1

Prison

Answer 1

State or federal confinement facility that has control over adults sentenced.

Question 2

Lex talionis

Answer 2

The law of retaliation, eye for an eye, like for like.

Question 3

Workhouse

Answer 3

An early form of imprisonment whose purpose was to instill habits of industry in the idle.

Question 4

Pennsylvania System

Answer 4

Form of imprisonment developed by the PA Quakers around 1790 as an alternative to corporal punishments. Made use of solitary confinement and encouraged rehabilitation.

Question 5

Auburn System

Answer 5

Form of imprisonment developed in NY, around 1820 depended on mass prisons, remain silent. Competitor to PA System.

Question 6

Reformatory Style

Answer 6

Late nineteenth century correctional model based on the use of indeterminate sentence, belief in rehabilitation, especially for youthful offenders. Faded at 20th century.

Question 7

Industrial Prison

Answer 7

A correctional model intended to capitalize on the labor of convicts sentenced to confinement.

Question 8

State-use System

Answer 8

Item produced by inmates, only the state “offices” can sell.

Question 9

Ashurst-Sumners Act

Answer 9

Federal legislation of 1935 that effectively ended the industrial prison era by restricting interstate commerce in prison-made goods.

Question 10

Medical Model

Answer 10

Applies the diagnostic perspective of medical science to the handling of criminal offenders.

Question 11

Work Release

Answer 11

Inmates are temporarily released into the community to meet job responsibilities.

Question 12

Warehousing

Answer 12

imprisonment strategy that is based on the desire to prevent recurrent crime and that has abandoned all hope of rehabilitation.

Question 13

Nothing-works Doctrine

Answer 13

Belief by Robert Martinson in the 1970s that no success to offenders treatment.

Question 14

Justice Model

Answer 14

A contemporary model of imprisonment based on that principle of just deserts.

Question 15

Prison Capacity

Answer 15

Hold people? 3 types are rated, operations, and design.

Question 16

Rated Capacity

Answer 16

Number of inmates a prison can handle by expert perspective.

Question 17

Operational Capacity

Answer 17

The number of inmates a prison can effectively accommodate based on management considerations.

Question 18

Design Capacity

Answer 18

The number of inmates a prison was intended to hold when it was built or modified.

Question 19

Classification System

Answer 19

System used by prison administrators to assign inmates to custody levels.

Question 20

ADMAX

Answer 20

Administrative maximum. The term us used by the federal government to denote ultra-high-security prisons.

Question 21

Jail

Answer 21

Holds people, pending, year or less.

Question 22

Direct-supervision Jail

Answer 22

Temp confinement facility that eliminates many of the traditional barriers. Greater interaction.

Question 23

Regional Jail

Answer 23

A jail that is built and run using the combined resources of a variety of local jurisdictions.

Question 24

Privatization

Answer 24

The movement toward the wider use of private prisons.

Question 25

Private Prison

Answer 25

A correctional institution operated by a private firm on behalf of a local or state government.