Exam 4 Flashcards
Community Corrections
The use of a variety of officially ordered program-based sanctions that permit convicted offenders to remain in the community under conditional supervision.
Special conditions
Probation condition: Special conditions may be mandated by the judge who feels that the probationer is in need of particular guidance or control.
Total institution
An enclosed facility separated from society, both
socially and physically, where the inhabitants share
all aspects of their daily lives
Total institutions include prisons, concentration
camps, mental hospitals, seminaries, and other
facilities in which residents are cut off from the larger
society, either forcibly or willingly.
They develop their own distinctive values and styles
of life and pressure residents to fulfill rigidly
prescribed behavioral roles.
Intermediate sanctions
sentencing alternatives that exist between probation and incarceration.
Crack kids
Pretty sure it is kids that were raised in prisons or something like kids that know a lot about street culture and activities from a young age
Balancing test
Weighs rights of individual against the state’s
authority to make laws or otherwise restrict a person’s
freedom to protect the state’s interest and its citizens
Parole
- Conditional supervised early release of inmates from correctional confinement
- Strategy of prison reentry to the community from prison
prisoner reentry
The managed return to the community of individuals released from prison
Just Desserts
the philosophy of a fair and appropriate punishment that is related to the severity of the crime committed
What you deserve
Prison subculture
The values and behavioral patterns characteristic of
prison inmates
Surprisingly consistent across the country
Riots
- 1970–1980—the “explosive decade” of
prison riots - Riots decreased after this point but did
continue - Riots are difficult to predict in specific
institutions but some state prison systems
appear ripe for disorder
Medical Parole
Early release option under which an inmate is deemed ‘low risk’ due to a serious physical and mental health condition under normal circumstances.
Probation
A sentence of imprisonment that is suspended.
- The offender is under supervision.
Revocation
The administrative action of removing a person from parole in response to a violation of conditions
Direct supervision jails
-Modular self-contained housing areas (pods) linked to each other
-Eliminates many of the traditional barriers between inmates and staff
-Reduces inmate dissatisfaction, violence, likelihood of inmate victimization
-Higher staff morale, lower stress
-Less susceptible to inmate lawsuits
Prisonization
The process whereby newly institutionalized
offenders come to accept prison lifestyles and
criminal values
– Socialization turns new inmates into “cons”
– Hinder the ability to function in the “outside world”
Security threat group
An inmate group, gang, or organization whose
members act together to pose a threat to the safety of
corrections staff or the public, who prey on other
inmates, or who threaten the secure and orderly
operation of a correctional institution
