Deck 8: The Prison Experience: Females

Question 1

Which of the following is not a characteristic of women in prison?

A)Women in prison have a solid employment history.
B)Women in prison have a history of poor physical health
C)Women in prison lack education.
D)Women in prison have mental health problems.

Answer 1

A

Question 2

While their mothers are incarcerated which relative do the children most frequently stay with?

A)aunts and uncles
B)maternal grandmothers
C)fathers
D)paternal grandmothers

Answer 2

B

Question 3

What is the term used to describe any behavior that can bring trouble or conflict with staff and other prisoners?

A)The flow
B)The heat
C)The mix
D)None of these

Answer 3

C

Question 4

A grouping of unrelated individuals who have assumed the traditional family roles of mother, father and grandparents is known as a:

A)false family
B)fake family
C)fictive family
D)play family

Question 5

Which model of coping with prison life has women associating with other prisoners and enjoying their associations while having few problems with correctional officers?

A)adopted style
B)convict style
C)isolate style
D)integrated style

Question 6

Which researchers found that women in prison cope by establishing homosexual relationships?

A)Giallombardo
B)Gresham and Sykes
C)Hefferman
D)Ward and Kassebaum

Question 7

Which of the following is not one of the main major reasons that women are confined to administrative segregation?

A)assaults on staff
B)drug-related offenses
C)fighting
D)sexual relationships

Question 8

According to the text, in some prisons the female role in a homosexual prison relationship is referred to as:

A)femme
B)butch
C)mother
D)grandmother

Question 9

Women prisoners:

A)make up 50 percent of the prison population
B)make up 30 percent of the prison population
C)make up 20 percent of the prison population
D)make up 7 percent of the prison population

Question 10

Pressing issues in women's prisons include:

A)problems posed by motherhood
B)the quality of prison healthcare
C)the sexual victimization of women prisoners
D)all of these choices.

Question 11

The female prison population is increasing because:

A)women are caught committing crimes more than in the past
B)women are committing more serious crimes
C)there are more women in the United States then men
D)all of these choices

Question 12

The female prison population is:

A)growing at a faster rate than the male prison population
B)growing at a slower rate than the male prison population
C)staying the same
D)non-existent

Question 13

Which style gives female inmates the feeling that they have no control over their prison environment?

A)adopted style
B)convict style
C)isolate style
D)integrated style

Question 14

What percent of incarcerated women have received welfare sometime during their adult lives?

A)Approximately 50 percent
B)Approximately 10 percent
C)Approximately 95 percent
D)Approximately 1 percent

Question 15

Which of the following is not a characteristic of the prison love affairs that are established in female prisons?

A)They are unstable.
B)They are long-term.
C)They are explosive.
D)There is a strict differentiation between the male and female role.

Question 16

How many of the female prisoners in state prisons have children under the age of 18?

A)1/3
B)1/2
C)2/3
D)3/4

Question 17

A type of prison socialization in which women deal with incarceration by becoming part of make-believe family is a:

A)pretend family
B)kinship network
C)family structure network
D)none of these choices

Question 18

Which style are women prisoners least likely to approach their confinement with?

A)adopted style
B)convict style
C)isolate style
D)integrated style

Question 19

Compared to male prisoners, female prisoners have:

A)a lower rate of illness
B)a higher rate of illness
C)the same rate of illness
D)none of these choices

Question 20

According to the text, in some prisons the dominant, or male, role in a homosexual relationship in the prison society is known as:

A)femme
B)butch
C)dad
D)grandfather

Question 21

Melissa is a female serving a life sentence for murder in a state correctional facility. She has been in prison for the past 10 years. She is now 36 years old. Melissa was pregnant when she entered prison with her second child. She was also addicted to cocaine and often turned to prostitution to support her habit. She ended up killing a customer who refused to pay her for her prostitution services.
Melissa's drug addiction is not uncommon for female inmates. What percentage of female inmates are involved with addictive drugs?

A)1/3
B)1/2
C)2/3
D)3/4

Question 22

Sentencing laws fail to consider that the reasons that compel many women to remain silent include:

A)domestic violence
B)economic dependence
C)immigration status
D)all of these choices

Question 23

Almost half of the women in prison today under mandatory sentencing laws have been convicted of:

A)murder
B)theft
C)kidnapping
D)conspiracy

Question 24

Female offenders are more likely than males to be convicted of:

A)a non-violent crime
B)murder
C)rape
D)kidnapping

Question 25

What percentage of states offer female inmates mammograms and Pap smears?

A)20%
B)50%
C)75%
D)100%

Question 26

Melissa is a female serving a life sentence for murder in a state correctional facility. She has been in prison for the past 10 years. She is now 36 years old. Melissa was pregnant when she entered prison with her second child. She was also addicted to cocaine and often turned to prostitution to support her habit. She ended up killing a customer who refused to pay her for her prostitution services.
When she first entered prison Melissa became part of a make-believe family in order to deal with incarceration. This is known as:

A)the mamas and the papas
B)family ties
C)kinship networks
D)pseudofamilies

Question 27

The use of sentencing guidelines has

A)not had an effect on female offenders
B)benefited female offenders
C)not benefited female offenders
D)none of these choices

Question 28

Which psychological problem are more women prisoners diagnosed with?

A)psychotic illness
B)depression
C)personality disorder
D)most women in prison do not have psychological problems.

Question 29

While males may benefit from sentencing reforms, females:

A)also benefit
B)suffer
C)gain even more privileges than men
D)none of these choices

Question 30

Before 1960, independent women's prisons were relatively:

A)common
B)rare
C)expensive
D)none of these choices

Question 31

Compared to men's prisons, women's prisons are typically:

A)less violent
B)bigger
C)cleaner
D)all of these choices

Question 32

As juveniles, many incarcerated women experienced:

A)physical abuse
B)sexual abuse
C)harsh discipline
D)all of these choices

Question 33

Gender neutral sentences have:

A)placed more women behind bars
B)allowed women to get away with crimes that males are typically charged with
C)had no effect on women
D)all of these choices

Question 34

Melissa is a female serving a life sentence for murder in a state correctional facility. She has been in prison for the past 10 years. She is now 36 years old. Melissa was pregnant when she entered prison with her second child. She was also addicted to cocaine and often turned to prostitution to support her habit. She ended up killing a customer who refused to pay her for her prostitution services.
Melissa is not a typical female inmate in that she is convicted of the violent crime of murder. Most female inmates are in prison for:

A)burglary
B)robbery
C)nonviolent drug offenses
D)theft

Question 35

Melissa is a female serving a life sentence for murder in a state correctional facility. She has been in prison for the past 10 years. She is now 36 years old. Melissa was pregnant when she entered prison with her second child. She was also addicted to cocaine and often turned to prostitution to support her habit. She ended up killing a customer who refused to pay her for her prostitution services.
When Melissa entered prison she was about 6 months pregnant. She received minimal prenatal care and was taken to the county hospital to deliver her baby. Once she delivered her baby she returned to prison and a family member took custody of Melissa's newborn and her older child. Based on the research Melissa would be most satisfied with placing her children with __________

A)the children's father
B)her sister
C)her mother
D)her friend

Question 36

Female prisoners are more likely than male prisoners to cope with their issues:

A)through groups
B)with therapy
C)through destructive acts
D)by working

Question 37

Concerns with healthcare in prisons include:

A)delays in treatment
B)lack of qualified personnel and resources
C)cost
D)all of these choices

Question 38

Professionalism in a women's prison is defined as:

A)a commitment to develop programming for inmates
B)a desire to treat inmates with dignity and respect
C)a commitment to engage staff in prison management and operations
D)all of these choices

Question 39

The incarceration of so many women with a history of drug abuse and prostitution puts them at a high risk for:

A)HIV and AIDS
B)re-offending
C)life-sentences
D)none of these choices

Question 40

Melissa is a female serving a life sentence for murder in a state correctional facility. She has been in prison for the past 10 years. She is now 36 years old. Melissa was pregnant when she entered prison with her second child. She was also addicted to cocaine and often turned to prostitution to support her habit. She ended up killing a customer who refused to pay her for her prostitution services.
After about ten years into her sentence, Melissa became depressed. She started to separate herself from other prisoners and began to feel like she had no control. She was coping to prison by according to which model?

A)adopted style
B)convict style
C)isolate style
D)integrated style

Question 41

Warden Jones is the first female warden of the only correctional institution in the state. She was promoted from assistant warden at a medium security male prison. During her first week of work she realizes that running a female prison is completely different than running a male prison.
Warden Jones is amazed to see how many inmates are involved in romantic relationships with one another. She knows that it is impossible to prevent all sexual encounters. However, she is particularly concerned with a few of the female inmates who play the dominant role in the homosexual relationship. Some of them have become violent. The inmates who play this dominant role are referred to as:

A)butch
B)master
C)pimp
D)wolf

Question 42

Every female prison provides a nursery where babies up to 18 months old can live with their mothers in prison.

Question 43

Adult females are more likely than adult males to attempt suicide while incarcerated.

Question 44

.Race tends to be emphasized much more in female prison culture than male prison culture.

Question 45

Many pregnant inmates are shackled while delivering their child.

Question 46

Warden Jones is the first female warden of the only correctional institution in the state. She was promoted from assistant warden at a medium security male prison. During her first week of work she realizes that running a female prison is completely different than running a male prison.
Warden Jones was brought into the prison to help fix the problem of sexual assaults of inmates by staff members. The previous warden and 20 officers were terminated because of a sex abuse scandal that occurred at the institution. She is determined to eradicate the prison of sexual assaults committed by her staff. She reaches out to the international nongovernmental organization that is concerned with the rights of prisoners for help with the development of new policies to ensure she puts an end to these sexual assaults. What is the name of this organization?

A)American Civil Liberties Union
B)Human Rights Watch
C)National Organization of Women
D)U.S. Department of Justice

Question 47

In contemporary prisons, female inmates are prone to mistrust their friendships with other women prisoners and refrain from forming close relationships.

Question 48

Female offenders are more likely than males to be convicted of a nonviolent crime and be incarcerated for a low-level involvement in drug offenses.

Question 49

There is a growing movement to make the staff on women's prisons more competent and professional.

Question 50

Warden Jones is the first female warden of the only correctional institution in the state. She was promoted from assistant warden at a medium security male prison. During her first week of work she realizes that running a female prison is completely different than running a male prison.
After running the prison for one month, Warden Jones realizes that women do their time very differently than men. Which of the following is not indicative of how women prisoners do their time compared to men?

A)The culture of the female prison exploits the struggles of degradation and violence.
B)Men show more solidarity.
C)Women are often confined to administrative segregation for fighting.
D)Race is not critical to prison culture in a female prison.

Question 51

There is a lack of qualified personnel and resources to meet the physical and mental health needs of female inmates.

Question 52

Incarcerated women typically come from stable family lives.

Question 53

Over half of all incarcerated women are parents to children under the age of 18.

Question 54

Sentencing guidelines consider family factors such as employment record and family ties.

Question 55

Equality with a vengeance is a term known to describe an equality of punishment meted out to women who violate the law.

Question 56

Warden Jones is the first female warden of the only correctional institution in the state. She was promoted from assistant warden at a medium security male prison. During her first week of work she realizes that running a female prison is completely different than running a male prison.
Warden Jones has been observing how some women cope with prison. She is most concerned with the inmate who adopts the ___________ style because they are highly likely to have difficulty dealing with correctional officers.

A)adopted style
B)convict style
C)isolate style
D)integrated style

Question 57

Warden Jones is the first female warden of the only correctional institution in the state. She was promoted from assistant warden at a medium security male prison. During her first week of work she realizes that running a female prison is completely different than running a male prison.
After meeting with most of the correctional officers and inmates Warden Jones realizes that most of her inmates have several deficits. Which of the following a problem for many of her inmates?

A)They have a history of poor health.
B)They have been sexually abused
C)They have substance abuse problems.
D)All of these

Question 58

Perinatal mortality and morbidity are high for women prisoners.

Question 59

According to the text, mandatory minimum sentences in most states provide the same punishment for conspiracy to commit crimes as for the instigator of the crime itself.

Question 60

Blood related relatives are called fictive families in the prison environment.

Question 61

According to the text, children of incarcerated mothers most frequently stay with ___________________.

Question 62

Some prisons _______________ inmates for healthcare even though it is in violation of international standards.

Question 63

Owen's term for women's involvement in problematic prison behaviors and activities is _______________________.

Question 64

According to the text, the docile, or female, role in a homosexual relationship in the prison society is called ____________________.

Question 65

When women associate with other prisoners and have few problems with correctional officers they are using the _______________ style of coping with prison life.

Question 66

Make- believe families are known as____________________.

Question 67

Special issues in the incarceration of women include motherhood and ____________________.

Question 68

____________________ are a type of prison socialization in which women deal with incarceration by becoming part of make-believe families.

Question 69

Many women have been victims of ____________________ during incarceration by correctional officers.

Question 70

Shackling or restraining women during ____________________ can put the baby at risk.

Question 71

Discuss Barbara Owen's study on female inmates and her findings.

Question 72

A term commonly used referring to the dominant, or male, role in a homosexual relationship in the prison society is called ____________________.

Question 73

______________________________ in a women's prison includes a desire to treat inmates with dignity and respect.

Question 74

The chief treatment officer in many correctional institutions is the _________________________.

Question 75

Discuss the characteristics of females in prison.

Question 76

Describe why the female inmate population is increasing.

Question 77

California created the ______________________________ program which allows 100 women with infants to live in a community based facility instead of a prison where they can take parenting classes.

Question 78

Discuss the findings of the three classic studies of women in prison.

Question 79

Female offenders are more likely than males to be convicted of a ____________________ crime.

Question 80

Kruttschnitt and Gartner found that prisoners in the two prisons they studied had three major ways of negotiating, or coping with, prison life. Compare and contrast the three perspectives.