Quiz 3 Flashcards
Prisonization is the process of
absorbing customs and adapting to prison environment
Deprivation model
Focus on influence of institutional environmental conditions
Organizational factors within prison determine behavior more than individual personality differences
“Pains” of prison lead to anti-administration orientations
Importation Model
Emphasizes impact of individual and demographic factors, along with pre-prison socialization
Personal factors influence inmate orientations, attitudes, and behaviors
Coping Roles
Doing Time
- Cost of business
- Reduce suffering – Increase comfort
- Avoid trouble, fill hours of the day, get out quick
Gleaning
-Take advantage of programs and resources to improve themselves
Jailing
- “Prison is home. The outside is a vacation.”
- Often highly institutionalized
Disorganized Criminal
“Human putty”
Vulnerable to abuse, emotional/psychological conditions
How many inmates are physically attacked by other inmates each year?
~34,000
Response to violence
- No punishment, suspended punishment, or formal reprimand
- Given extra work, loss/change work asst, or loss of privileges
- Loss of good time, gain bad time, or receive new sentence
- Solitary, segregation, or confinement to own cell
- Transferred to higher custody level or another facility
Violence
Drug/Alcohol Violations more likely to receive most punishments than other violation types
Race/Ethnicity plays a minor role in influencing certain punishment outcomes
Hispanics more likely to receive change of work assignment or loss of privileges than Whites
Blacks more likely to receive solitary confinement than Whites
Younger offenders more likely to receive solitary or segregated confinement
Violent history (controlling offense) more likely to be punished with loss of good time &/or additional sentence time
Participation in Inmate Assistance / Self-Help Programs is associated with reductions in likelihood of all punishment types
Managing violence
Systems Management Approach
Restrict possibility of violence & misconduct with housing/classification environment
Organization & Management are focus, rather than personal change
Managing violence
Psychological Interventions:
Behavior modification, social learning, cognitive-based therapies
Aryan Brotherhood
Origin: 1967 San Quentin Why? Provide protection for Whites from Blacks & Hispanics White Supremacists Crime & Racial Hatred ~ 15,000 members in and out of prison According to FBI… although the gang makes up less than 1% of the prison population, it is responsible for up to 18% of murders in the federal prison system
Black Guerrilla Family (BGF)
Origin: 1966 San Quentin George Jackson Associated w/ Black Mafia Most politically oriented of major prison gangs Marxist Eradicate racism Historically small, but numbers growing Alignment with Crips, Bloods, & other gangs
Mexican Mafia (EME)
Origin1950s Duel Vocational Institute, CA Patterned after Italian Mafia Ethnic solidarity Drug Trafficking North South division began in 1960s South – EME North – Nuestra Familia Offshoots & “13”
La Nuestra Familia (NF)
Origin: 1965 Soledad Prison Protection of younger, rural Mexican Americans Enemy of EME “Kill on sight” “14”
Texas Syndicate (TS)
origin: 1970s Folsom Prison Mexican-American Hispanic Protection of Texas Inmates in California
What is probation?
in lieu of imprisonment, an offender should be allowed to live in the community under supervision
