correction midterm Flashcards
corrections
the variety of programs services facilities and organizations responsible for the management of individuals who have been accused or convicted of criminal offenses
social control
action and practices of individuals and institutions designed to induce conformity with the norms and rules of society
system
a complex whole consisting of interdependent parts rose operations are directed toward common foals and are influenced by the environment in which they function
federalism
a system o government in which power and responsibility are divided between a national government and state governments
prison
an institutions for ht incarceration of people convicted o serious crimes usually felonies
jail
a facility authorized to hold pretrial detainees and sentenced misdemeanants for periods longer than 48 hours
probation
an agency that supervises the community adjustment of people who are convicted of crimes but are not sentenced to confinement in prison or jail
intermediate sanction
a variety of punishments that are more restrictive than traditional probation but less severe and costly than incarceration
parole
a system of supervision of those who have been released from confinement sometimes including the option of early release from confinement before the expiration of the sentence
private prison
the operation of a prison by a private company under contract with a local state or the federal government often as a for profit business
penitentiary
an institution intended to isolate prisoners form society and form one another so that they could reflect entire past misdeeds repentant thus undergo reformation
separate confinement
a penitentiary system developed in Pennsylvania in which each inmate was held in isolation from the inmates with all activities including craft work carried on in the cell
congregate system
a penitentiary system developed in auburn New York in which inmates were held in isolation at night but worked with other prisoners during the day under a rule of silence
lease system
a system under which inmates were leased to contractors who provided prisoners with food and clothing in exchange for their labor
mark system
a system in which offenders are assessed a certain number of points at the time of sentencing based on the seedy of their crime
reformatory
an institution or young offenders that emphasized training a mark system of classification indeterminate sentences and parole
positivist school
an approach to criminology and other social sciences base don the assumption that human behavior in a product of social economic biological and psychological factors that the scientific method can be applied to ascertain the causes of individual behavior
medical model
a model of correction based on teh assumption that criminal behavior is caused bye ocial psychological or biological deficiency that require treatment
community correction
a model of correction based on the assumption that reintegrating the offender into the community should be the goal of the criminal justice system
crime control model
a model of corrections based on the assumption that criminal behavior can be controlled by increased use of incarceration and the forms of strict supervisor
evidence based corrections
a movement to ensure that correctional programs and policies are base d on research evidence about “what works”
justice reinvestment
a movement in which money saved by reducingg prions populations is used prison populations issued to build up crime prevention programs in the community
lex talionis
law of retaliation the principle that punishment should correspondd in degree and kind to the offense (an eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth)
enlightenment age of reason
the 1700s in Europe when concepts of liberalism rationality equality and individualism dominated social and political thinking
utilitarianism
the doctrine that the aim of alll action should be the greatest possible balance of pleasure over pain hence the belief that a punishment inflicted on an offender must achieve enough good to outweigh the pain inflicted
retribution
punishment inflicted on a person who has infringed the right of there and so deserves to be penalized
general deterrence
punishment of criminal that is intended to be an example to the general public and other discourage crime by others
specific deterrence
punishment inflicted on criminals to discourage them form committing future crimes
incapacitation
depriving an offender of the ability to commit crimes usually by detaining the offender in prison
selective incapacitation
making the best use of expensive and limited prison space by targeting for incarceration those offenders whose incapacity will doth most to reduce crime in society