Exam 8: Prisons and the Correctional Client

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By design, prisons are intended to house ______.

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Which type of violence is used to achieve some end?

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Placing someone in prison is a very expensive decision, costing states and the federal government at least $50,000 per year for adult males and more than double that for women and children.

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Explain the importance of social support for inmates.

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In which type of prison can exterior security be tight while internally providing inmates with many opportunities to attend school, treatment, and church programming?

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Prison populations are declining in some areas because of ______.

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According to Sykes, why would prison inmates be motivated to engage in deviance?

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Overall, about ______ of federal inmates are in private prisons.

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Goffman (1961) believed that total institutions had the effect of debilitating their inmates.

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