Exam 8: Prisons and the Correctional Client

In which year did the incarceration rate peak?

Explain in detail the three strategies you believe will be most effective in preventing violence in prisons.

The number of ______ inmates in the correctional population is unknown.

Identify and provide an example of each of the pains of imprisonment.

Goffman conducted a famous study of people in a ______.

In your opinion, do supermax prisons represent good correctional policies? Provide evidence to support your position.

When individuals entering prison bring with them aspects of their own culture from the outside, it is known as ______.

Because of the materials used in their construction, supermax prisons are at least two to three times more expensive to build than "regular" prisons.

Prisoners residing in maximum-security facilities are more subject to the pains of imprisonment than are those in minimum-security facilities.

Mortification involves ______.

Prison gangs are a recent development in correctional facilities.

Identify and explain what you believe are the most crucial issues that arise when dealing with medically ill inmates in prison.

The deinstitutionalization of the ______ prison population came about as a result of the civil rights movement and related efforts to increase the rights of powerless people.

Deprivation of ______ involves inmates having to live with other inmates at the risk of being victimized.

Prisonization is best described as ______.

Define mature coping and explain how you think prisons can facilitate this phenomenon.

What did Goffman (1961) describe as "a place of residence and work where a large number of like-situated individuals, cut off from the wider society for an appreciable period of time, together lead an enclosed, formally administered round of life"?

A person experiences prisonization when he or she adopts the inmate subculture of an institution.

Protecting sexual orientation and gender identity minorities in prisons presents a problem for correctional officials.

Data indicate that 4.0% of prison inmates experience sexual assaults in a given year.