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ep11 Flashcards

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What is the Pennsylvania model for prisons?

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A system in which prisoners are completely isolated from each other eating, working, and sleeping in separate cells

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What is the Auburn model for prisons?

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A system where prisoners work and ate together during the day and were housed in individual cells at night

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Who operates the federal corrections?

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Correctional service Canada

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Who gets sent to federal corrections?

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Offenders serving a sentence of two years to more

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What 5 regions are federal corrections located in?

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Atlantic, Quebec, Ontario, Prairie, Pacific

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What are the 3 types of correctional institutions?

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Minimum, medium, and maximum security

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What is minimum security?

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No perimeter fencing and unrestricted inmate movement except at night time

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What is medium security?

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High-security perimeter fencing with some restrictions on inmate movement

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What is maximum security?

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High-security perimeter fencing, highly controlled environment with inmate movement strictly monitored and controlled

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What are the two types of correctional facility security?

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Static and dynamic security

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What is Static security?

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Fixed security apparatuses in correctional institutions with perimeter fencing, video surveillance, alrams, control rooms, and fixed security post

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What is dynamic security?

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Ongoing interaction, beyond observation, working and speaking with inmates, making suggestions, providing information, and being proactive

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What is rule of law?

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The requirement that the government, as well
as individuals, be subjected to and abide by the law

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What is duty to act fairly?

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The obligation of correctional authorities to ensure that offenders are treated fairly by corrections personnel

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What is prison?

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Facilities with a highly structured environment in which all movements of the inmates or
patients are controlled 24 hours a day by staff

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What is continuum of correctional institutions?

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The differences in institutional environments among correctional institutions located at either end of the security spectrum—maximum to minimum

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What is the split personality of corrections?

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When prisons are asked to pursue confinement and control but also reform and rehabilitation

18
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What is segregation/ solitary confinement?

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A correctional management strategy where inmates are locked in a cell for 23 hours a day

19
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What are the two types of segregation?

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Disciplinary and administrative segregation

20
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What is disciplinary segregation for?

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When an inmate violates an institutional rule

21
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What is administrative segregation?

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When an inmate attempts to act in a way that is deemed to threaten the prison population

22
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What is the custodial agenda of correctional officers?

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Centers on control and the enforcement of regulations

23
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What is the correctional agenda?

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Involves correctional officers functioning as change agents by assisting inmates

24
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What is the correctional officer subculture?

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A code of behavior designed to maintain occupational solidarity

25
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What are correctional officers’ issues?

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Relationship with inmates (subtle, non-verbal cues to help read them), abuse of authority (based on inmate’s offense/ history), relationship with treatment staff (viewed with distrust)

26
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What is status degrading ceremony?

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The processing of inmates into a correctional institution where the offender is psychologically and materially stripped of possessions that
identify him or her as a member of the
“free society”

27
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What is pains of imprisonment?

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The deprivations experienced by inmates confined in correctional institutions, including the loss of autonomy, privacy, security, and
freedom of movement and association

28
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What is inmate subculture?

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The patterns of interaction and the
relationships that exist among inmates confined in correctional institutions

29
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What is prisonization?

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The process by which inmates become
socialized into the norms, values, and culture of the prison

30
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what are state-raised offenders?

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Inmates who have spent the
majority of their adult lives confined in correctional institutions and, as a consequence, may have neither the skills nor the ability to function in the outside, free community

31
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What is institutionalized?

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Inmates who have become prisoned
to such a degree that they are unable to function in the outside, free community

32
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What are inmate social roles?

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Roles that inmates assume
based on their friendship networks, sentence length, and other factors related to their criminal history and activities in the institution

33
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What is inmate code?

A

A set of behavioral rules that govern
interactions among inmates and with institutional staff

34
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What is classification?

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Categorizing inmates through the
use of various assessment instruments to
determine the security level and program placement

35
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What are the two risk factors?

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Static and dynamic risk factors

36
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What are static risk factors?

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Attributes that predict recidivism eg criminal history

37
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What are dynamic risk factors?

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Attributes that can be altered through intervention eg addictions

38
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What is case management?

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The process by which the
needs and abilities of offenders are matched with correctional programs and services

39
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What is a correctional plan?

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Determines the offender’s
initial institution placement, specific training or
work opportunities, and preparation for release

40
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What are institutional treatment programs?

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Target criminogenic and anti-social behaviors through substance abuse, relapse prevention, education, and anger management interventions

41
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What is throughcare?

A

The notion that there should be
continuity between institutional treatment and
programs and community-based services for
offenders

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