Exam 8: Prisons and the Correctional Client

According to the BJS, in 2011, 10% of the allegations of sexual assault in prison were substantiated.

What did Sykes argue can have a cumulative effect of destroying the psyche of the inmate?

The Affordable Care Act of 1974 ended much of the federal support for mental hospitals.

In order for inmates to successfully find niches, autonomy must be limited.

Inmates in minimum security prisons are usually ______.

Subcultures are less likely to flourish in environments where groups of individuals are isolated from the larger culture.

Which type of violence is an angry outburst?

The text states that "as America, the correctional populations are graying." Discuss four collateral consequences that derive from that fact.

Which of the following is a characteristic of a supermax prison?

Define Goffman's notion of a total institution and explain how it applies to prisons.

Deprivation of employment is one of the pains of imprisonment identified by Sykes.

Explain what types of inmates are held in the different classifications of prisons.

A subset of culture within a prison that has its own norms, values, beliefs, traditions, and even language is known as a ______.

Discuss how you think prisons can best deal with the challenges presented by transgendered inmates.

What is the name for group violence that poses a direct threat to the inmates in a prison?

When inmates "seek positions of power, influence and sources of information" to obtain goods and services they have been denied, they have adopted the ______.

Prison gangs have a hierarchical organizational structure and a set, and often strict, code of conduct for members.

Which of the following is a major prison gang identified by the Florida Department of Corrections?

A decent prison is one in which ______.

Although only about one-fifth of the prisons in the United States are designated as maximum security, because of their size, they hold about ______ of the inmates incarcerated in this country.