Exam 11: Societal Responses to Deviance

"The worst thing about prison is you have to live with other prisoners" is a statement that summarizes the deprivation of ______, which is one of the pains of imprisonment.

Which theorist identified the five pains of imprisonment?

______ refers to the process of behavior previously defined as deviant becoming defined as sickness.

Some states in the United States ban felons from voting, even after their release from prison.

______ consequences refers to how incarceration affects communities and families beyond the institution.

Select a behavior that was defined as deviant in the past and is now defined as sickness. Discuss the change over time in what we call those who engage in this behavior, who responds to this behavior, how we respond to this behavior, and how we view the personal responsibility of those who engage in this behavior.

Latin American prisons are generally considered to set a golden standard in terms of creating and maintaining humane prisons that work to rehabilitate offenders.

Compare and contrast the prison system in the United States with the prison system in Norway. Could the United States create prisons based on the Norway prison system? Explain.

Punishing criminals serves the function of ______; when an offender is caught and sanctioned, the boundaries of the community are clearly tested, set, and reaffirmed.

Describe Sykes' five central pains of imprisonment from his study Society of Captives.

Involuntary civil commitment of sexual predators, whereby sex offenders can be held indefinitely, even after completing their criminal justice sentences, is legally allowed in all fifty U.S. states.

One formal control of deviant behavior involves ______, in which individuals-often poor or homeless-may be arrested and then subsequently prohibited from entering or occupying certain areas.

When reviewing the pains of imprisonment, the deprivation of ______ is found in the way that every significant movement an inmate makes is controlled by others; inmates must abide by others' decisions and submit to those decisions with enforced respect and deference.

Joseph is in kindergarten. He frequently picks his nose. When he does, his friends laugh at him and scream "Gross!" His mother ignores his behavior because she thinks he will grow out of it. Which part of this example reflects informal social control?

What is the primary purpose of prisons, according to the text?

According to the text, two types of social controls exist in society: ______.

One prison innovation is the pay-to-stay model, allowing nonviolent offenders without gang affiliation the opportunity to rent a cell in a smaller, quieter facility.

Informal social controls can include hospitalization in a mental ward.

Police arresting a criminal reflects ______ social control.

In "secondary prisonization," women are subjected to marginalization and their own pains of imprisonment because of their extended contact with the correctional facility when visiting their incarcerated friends and relatives.