Exam 8: Doing Time: The Experience of Inmates

What are the three most common complaints and grievances filed by federal inmates in Canadian correctional facilities?

Which of the following best describes an offender who displays a fear of being released into the community, as a result of having become prisonized?

What social (or argot) role does a new inmate exemplify when he decides to engage in constructive activities and relationships with treatment staff and correctional officers?

What term is exemplified when an inmate decides to use her time in prison to attain her high-school diploma and reconnect with her culture by taking Indigenous-focused treatment programs?

Which offender population is at highest risk for self-injurious behaviour?

According to statistics from 2014-15, what age group represented 50 percent of all Indigenous offenders?

Transgendered inmates and inmates who identified as non-gender conforming were assessed based on their primary sexual characteristics. As a result, what were they subjected to?

Which of the following is exemplified by an inmate who misses her children, her husband, her independence, her smartphone, and having baths?

Which term best describes an offender who started breaking the law early in life and has spent more than half of his life behind bars?

Time inside a prison can affect a prisoner's physical health. Describe and explain the causes and consequences of prisoners' health issues.

What does research evidence reveal about violence and exploitation in prison?

What group of federal inmates has recently increased by 70 percent from a decade ago, making it the fastest-growing group in federal prisons?

Which term is defined as an inmate "sucking up" to the prison staff?

Historically, what have assessments of transgendered inmates and inmates who identified as non-gender confirming been based on?

Identify the challenges and risks faced by LGBTQ prisoners today.

What term describes the actions of a woman prisoner who often scratches her arms and legs to point they are bleeding?

Which health-related factor of inmates in Canadian prisons is roughly 30 percent more prevalent in prisons than in Canada's general population?

What term refers to the deprivations experienced by inmates confined in correctional institutions, including their losses in terms of autonomy, privacy, security, and freedom of movement and association?

Which offender population is at greatest risk of committing suicide?

Upon entry into an institution, Inmate A is subjected to verbal and physical abuse from Inmate B who is looking for a "punk" to have sexual relations with. What social (or argot) role does Inmate B exemplify?