Exam 3 Flashcards
Compliance means…
Obedience to an order or request
Formal organization (hint: influencing ___ to achieve ____ ends)
A structure established for influencing behavior to achieve particular ends
Remunerative power means…
The ability to obtain compliance in exchange for material resources
Normative power means…
The ability to obtain compliance by manipulating symbolic rewards
Coercive power
The ability to obtain compliance by the application or threat of physical force
Chain of command
A series of organizational positions in order of authority, with each person receiving orders from the one immediately above and issuing orders to the one immediately below
Unity of command
A management principal holding that a subordinate should report to only one supervisor
Span of control
A management principle holding the supervisor can effectively oversee only a limited number of subordinates
Line personnel
Employees who are directly concerned with furthering the institutions goals and who are in direct contact with clients
Administrative control theory
A governance theory which persists that prison disorder results from unstable, divided, or otherwise weak management
Staff personnel
Employees who provide services in support of line personnel; examples of staff personnel include training officers and accountants
Inmate balance theory
A governance theory which persists that for a prison system to operate effectively officials must tolerate minor in fractions relax security measures and allow informal leaders to keep order
Boundary violations
Behavior that blurs, minimizes, or disrupts the social distance between staff and imprisoned people, resulting in violations of departmental policy
Classification process means…
The process by which people in prison are assigned to different types of custody and treatment
Psychotherapy (hunt: “treatment of the…”
Engineering terms all forms of “treatment of the mind“; in the prison setting, the stream is coercive in nature
Prison program
Any formal, structured activity that takes people out of their cells in the system to instrumental tasks
Principle of lease eligibility
The doctor and the people in prison not to receive no goods or services in excess of those available to people who have lived within the law
Psychotropic medication‘s
Drug treatments design to lessen the severity of symptoms of psychological illness
Reality therapy means… (hunt: responsibilities)
Treatment that emphasizes personal responsibility for actions and the consequences
Confrontation therapy (hint: face-to-face to consequence…)
A treatment technique, tip usually in a group, that vividly brings people face-to-face with their crimes consequences for the victim and society
Transactional analysis (hint; treatment equals interaction with others)
Treatment focuses on patterns of interactions with others, especially patterns in indicate personal problems
Social therapy
Treatment attempt to create institutional environment that supports pro social attitudes and behaviors
Cognitive skill building
A form of behavior therapy that focuses on changing the thinking and reasoning patterns that accompany criminal behavior
Therapeutic community (hint: it is a prison)
A person environment where every aspect of the prison is designed to promote pro social attitudes and behavior
Behavior therapy
Treatment that induces new behaviors to reinforcements such as rewards and punishments role modeling and other active forms of teaching
Vocational rehabilitation
Prison programming designed to teach cognitive and vocational skills to help people find employment upon release
Cost benefit ratios
Summary measure of the value of a correctional program in saving money through preventing new crime
Hepatitis C (hint: L)
Sometimes fatal disease of the liver that reduces the effectiveness of the body system of removing toxins
Civil disabilities
Legal restrictions to prevent many former prison residents from voting and holding elective officers, engaging in certain professions and occupations, and associating with others who are under correctional authority.
Criminogenic needs
Needs that when successfully addressed by treatment programs result in lower rates of recidivism
Piece price system (hint: Labor system)
A labor system under which a contractor provided raw materials and agreed to a set price to purchase goods made by people in prison
Public account system (hint: a labor system where the prison bought the ____ and____)
A labor system under which a prison bought machinery and raw materials with which people inside manufactured a salable product
State use system (hint: labor system, no free market)
A labor system under which goods produced by prison industries are purchased exclusively by state institutions and agencies and never enter the free market
Public works and Ways system
A labor system in which people in prison work on public construction and maintenance projects
Discretionary release (hint: at the discretion of ____ board within the boundaries set by___ and ___)
The release of an individual from prison to conditional supervision at the discretion of the parole board within the boundary set by the sentence and the penal law
Mandatory release
The required release of an individual from incarceration to community supervision on the expiration of a certain period, is stipulated by a determinate sentencing law or parole guideline
Parole
The conditional release of an individual from incarceration, under supervision, after part of the prison sentence has been served
Probation release
The release of someone from incarceration to probation supervision, as required by the sentencing judge
Presumptive pearl date
The presumed release date stipulated by parole guidelines if an individual serves time without disciplinary or other incidents
Other conditional releases (hint: used to get around the rigidity of ____ release)
A probationary sentenced used in some states to get around the rigidity of mandatory releasing by placing convict individuals in various community settings under supervision
Expiration release
The release of an incarcerate individual into the community without any further correctional supervision; the individual cannot be returned to prison for any remaining portion of the sentence for the current offense
Who developed in my balance theory?
Cl____ and Sy_____
Clemmer and Sykes
Most important factors in governance of the prison residence
Order, amenity, service
What does the term “defects of total power“ mean? In terms of correctional officers power
It means essentially that Incarcerated individuals don’t recognize legitimacy other keepers and are not always move to cooperate, forcing people to follow commands in efficient, physical coercion may violate criminal statutes and administrative procedures, etc.
Disciplinary techniques:
With holding privileges, racing good time credit, placing incarceration individuals in the “the hole“
Custodial officers act like police officers with regard to most prison rules such as
Minor violations: verbal reprimand/warning
Serious violations: “ticket“ or report to higher authority
Boundary violations: “___ percent of violations involved dual relationships, they were ______)
80%, consensual
 five different types of prison programs:
Rehabilitative, medical service, industrial, daily facility maintenance, recreational
No matter how beneficial program is, what must be upheld?
Security, safety, overall facility security
Objective classification system.
Explain the predictive model and the equity-based model
Predictive model “design to distinguish incarcerated individuals with respect to risk of escape, potential misconduct, and future criminal behavior“
Equity base model “use only a few explicitly defined legal variables reflecting current and previous criminal characteristics“
Different rehabilitative programs
Psychological, behavioral, social, educational, vocational, substance-abuse, sex offender, religious,
How long do substance-abuse programs typically last?
6 to 12 months
How many states have new prison treatment facilities with a Central fil Bosque of religious teaching?
At least five states
Concepts of Parole: there are three of them, list them
Grace or privilege, contract of consent “government enter into an agreement with the incarcerate individual whereby the person promises to abide by certain conditions in exchange for being released“ and Custody
Who was captain Alexander Maconuchie?
List his “steps” system that he developed
Strict imprisonment; Labor on chain gangs; freedom within an area; a ticket of leave or parole conditional pardon; and lastly, full liberty
How many states in the Year 1900 had parole systems?
20
How many states in 1925 add pearl systems?
46
How many states in 1942 had parole systems
48
In 19__ parole was criticized on several grounds: list them
Release was tied to treatment success, parole boards abusing their discretion, those in prison being held in suspended animation
Consolidated releasing authority versus autonomous releasing authority
Consolidated meaning inside the department autonomous meaning outside of the department
List the three structuring paroledecisions
They will substantially observe the rules of the institution which they’ve been confined, their lease will not depreciate the seriousness of their offense or promote disrespect to the law, they release will not jeopardize public welfare
How many individuals were returned home from the federal and state prisons in 2005? How many a day?
6______, 1,7__
How many personal searches do correctional officers conduct in a shift? How many inventories a day?
Personal searches 2 a day, inventories 3 or more times a day
Thomas Harris book titled
“I’m Ok, you’re ok”
Elmira Reformatory in the ____ Zebulon Brockway initiate the process of _______
Classifications
