G543 - Imprisonment - Haney And Zimbardo (summarising Changes)

Question 1

What concept was discredited and what did they replace it with?

Answer 1

The concept of rehabilitation. Replaced with the idea that criminals deserve punishment

Question 2

What was introduced which meant that there was no possibility of parole?

Answer 2

Rigid sentencing

Question 3

What has escalated in the USA?

Answer 3

Building of new prisons

Question 4

What does the USA do more than any other modern nation?

Answer 4

Imprisons people

Question 5

What was the 2008 prison population in the USA?

Answer 5

2 million

Question 6

What type of bias is there in the prison population?

Answer 6

Racial

Question 7

What % of African-American men made up the prison population? However what % of African American men represent the general population?

Answer 7

48%, 6%

Question 8

What was over represented as a result of Reagan’s war on drugs?

Answer 8

Drug offences

Question 9

What % of drug offences did black male inmates make up? And black female inmates? And white defendants?

Answer 9

64% 71% 12%

Question 10

What does the introduction of the ‘supermax’ prison cell emphasise?

Answer 10

A dis positional explanation of crime

Question 11

What are people categorised as? Instead of looking at what?

Answer 11

Problem prisoners instead of looking at the context of the situation

Question 12

What did Ronald Reagan’s war on drugs in the 1980s lead to?

Answer 12

Political pressure to put more people behind bars