Final: Chapter 11- Prison Life for Inmates

Question 1

Total institution

Answer 1

Goffman’s concept of a setting isolating people from the rest of society and unnecessarily manipulating them through the actions of staff

Question 2

Inmate code

Answer 2

expected rules and behaviors represented by the model prisoner and reflecting the values and norms of prisons society

Question 3

Prisonization

Answer 3

process in which inmates take on folkways, mores, customs, and culture of penetentiary

Question 4

Convicts

Answer 4

long-term inmates who have become used to prison society and find a way to live in the environment with minimal problems

Question 5

Thieves

Answer 5

inmates who have adopted a career of crime and are doing prison time until they can get out and hit the “big score”

Question 6

Square johns

Answer 6

inmates who are usually first time offenders and have more identification with society

Question 7

Interpersonal violence

Answer 7

prison violence that occurs between two or more individual inmates; usually for personal issues

Question 8

Collective violence

Answer 8

prison violence that is between and initiated by groups of inmates and include riots and disturbances; stems from fundamental differences and not personal

Question 9

Prison gangs

Answer 9

groups that form in prison and use the threat of violence to intimidate other inmates, control drug sales and gain power/influence

Question 10

Gang validation process

Answer 10

identification of the number of identifiers of gang activity used to confirm individuals’ gang involvement

Question 11

Debrief

Answer 11

gang members tell officials everything they know about the operations of the gang; once debrief is complete they become an enemy of the gang

Question 12

Gang intelligence officers

Answer 12

staff charged with collecting intelligence and advising others about the strategies to manage and contain gang activity

Question 13

Conjugal visiting

Answer 13

private opportunities for inmates and spouses or family

Question 14

Elizabeth Fry

Answer 14

Quaker who formed the Ladies Society for Promoting the Reformation of Female Prisoners in 1816

Question 15

Pseudofamilies

Answer 15

family organizations formed by female inmates who have roles of parents and children