Criminal Behavior Flashcards
1
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Medical Model
A
Criminality like an illness that needs treatment to be cured.
With proper treatment, restored to normal society/behavior
Prisons can provide an environment for that treatment
2
Q
Indeterminate sentencing
A
Judge gives sentencing range minimum and maximum
- 5-10 years, 10 years to life
- released when rehabilitated rather than when sentence ends
- Parole, good behavior
- inmate must demonstrate effort to change
- if not, prison potentially indefinitely
3
Q
Classification & Custody
A
“As much freedom as he can handle”
- Assess the potential security risk of each prisoner
- Assigned particular level of custody
Levels of Custody
- minimum, medium, max, & super-max
4
Q
Minimum security prisons
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- Low risk
- Assess to programs
- Recreation, move freely
- No “guard towers”
- More dorm like setting
5
Q
Med, max, & super
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-Isolated cells 23 hours a Day
“Non- programming”
- no communal spaces
- Pelican Bay for “worst of the worst”
6
Q
Rehabilitation Programs
A
- education programs
- vocational trade programs
- “productive employment”
- therapy groups
- alcoholics anonymous
- religious
7
Q
Rehabilitative model in norway
A
From prison to communities
Why do they have to rehabilitate ? Because they will eventually be returned to society
8
Q
Assumptions of criminal behavior
A
Social surroundings
