chapter 7

Question 1

The cost of prisons has made the United States reconsider how we use them.

true/false

Answer 1

true

Question 2

sentencing has helped reduce correctional populations?

Answer 2

the marijuana legalization considering

Question 3

Which type of facility encourages inmates to work in the community?

Answer 3

Minimum security–level facilities encourage inmates to work in the community.

Question 4

In which type of prison are inmates confined to a cell for 23 hr per day?

Answer 4

supermax

Question 5

classification, what was used to classified them?

into what jail there in

Answer 5

basis of crime,criminal histories, escape risk,behavioral issues, programming needs.

once they have done some time inmates may moved to a facilities closer to their families(option for men)

Question 6

get tough on crime

Answer 6

promoted more severe punishment

Question 7

super max prisons

Answer 7

inmates are confined to their cells 23 hrs a day,except for showers.

usually closed cuz the cost is to much

Question 8

how are people in maxium security prisons

Answer 8

there often locked up all day. housed in a single cell,not as locked as supermax

Question 9

medium security prisons

Answer 9

has more opportunities to attend school,treatment.sometimes doubles not single cell

Question 10

minium security prisons

Answer 10

much more relaxed exterior security. there given programming.more liberation

roam freely and take advantage of programming, recreation, and a yard that may not even have a wall or fence.

Question 11

It costs approximately $30,000 per year to incarcerate the average male inmate.

true false?

Answer 11

true

Question 12

total institutions

goffman dig himself into the total institution to find more out

Answer 12

a place of residence and work where a large number of like-situated individuals, cut off from t he wider society for an appreciable period of time, together lead an enclosed, formally administered round of life”

Question 13

mortification

Answer 13

the inmate may suffer from the loss of the many roles they occupied in the wider world

Question 14

importation

Answer 14

a person entering a prison imports aspects of their own culture from the outside

Question 15

prisonization

Answer 15

whereby they adopt the inmate subculture of the institution

Question 16

pains of imprisonment

Answer 16

the deprivation of liberty, the goods and services,sex, family(deprivation of contact with family members, children causing severe pain

Question 17

prison subculture

Answer 17

with its own norms, values, beliefs, traditions, and even language, tends to solidify when people are isolated from the larger culture

Question 18

en example of criminal subcultural

Answer 18

the notion that criminals should not betray each other to the police, should be reliable, wily but trustworthy, coolheaded

Question 19

how do gangs recruit

Answer 19

recruit based on race

Question 20

gangs

12 gangs

Answer 20

• neta
• aryan brotherhood
• black guerilla
• mexican mafia
• la nuestra familia
• texas syndicate

yet some gangs of the same race are sworn enemies

Question 21

Research on prison subcultures focuses on ______.

Answer 21

medium- and maximum-security facilities

Question 22

Why was there a riot at the New Mexico State Penitentiary in 1980?

Answer 22

The conditions were deplorable and overcrowded.

Question 23

Over half of state prisoners are incarcerated for ______ crimes.

Answer 23

violent

Question 24

Older inmates comprise about 10% of the prison population.

Answer 24

true

Question 25

What was an unintended consequence of deinstitutionalizing people with mental illness?

Answer 25

Many people with mental illness ended up in jail or prison.

Question 26

About a quarter of the prison population is LGBTQ+.

Answer 26

false

It is hard to determine how many LGBTQ+ people are in prison.

Question 27

People in immigration prisons have the same due process rights as those incarcerated in state or federal prisons.

Answer 27

People in immigration prisons do not have the same due process rights as those incarcerated in U.S. state or federal prisons.

Question 28

Which part of the federal government oversees immigration prisons and jails?

Answer 28

Department of Homeland Security

Question 29

Which statement accurately compares instrumental violence with expressive violence?

Answer 29

Instrumental violence is used to achieve an end; expressive violence is an angry outburst.

Question 30

As a result of the civil rights movement and other efforts to increase the rights of powerless people, people with mental illness ______.

Answer 30

were deinstitutionalized

Question 31

The United States has the highest incarceration rate in the Western world.

true/false

Answer 31

true

Question 31

Prisons are designed to house ______

Answer 31

long-term offenders