Chapter 13 Flashcards
(25 cards)
Prison
State or federal confinement facility that has control over adults sentenced.
Lex talionis
The law of retaliation, eye for an eye, like for like.
Workhouse
An early form of imprisonment whose purpose was to instill habits of industry in the idle.
Pennsylvania System
Form of imprisonment developed by the PA Quakers around 1790 as an alternative to corporal punishments. Made use of solitary confinement and encouraged rehabilitation.
Auburn System
Form of imprisonment developed in NY, around 1820 depended on mass prisons, remain silent. Competitor to PA System.
Reformatory Style
Late nineteenth century correctional model based on the use of indeterminate sentence, belief in rehabilitation, especially for youthful offenders. Faded at 20th century.
Industrial Prison
A correctional model intended to capitalize on the labor of convicts sentenced to confinement.
State-use System
Item produced by inmates, only the state “offices” can sell.
Ashurst-Sumners Act
Federal legislation of 1935 that effectively ended the industrial prison era by restricting interstate commerce in prison-made goods.
Medical Model
Applies the diagnostic perspective of medical science to the handling of criminal offenders.
Work Release
Inmates are temporarily released into the community to meet job responsibilities.
Warehousing
imprisonment strategy that is based on the desire to prevent recurrent crime and that has abandoned all hope of rehabilitation.
Nothing-works Doctrine
Belief by Robert Martinson in the 1970s that no success to offenders treatment.
Justice Model
A contemporary model of imprisonment based on that principle of just deserts.
Prison Capacity
Hold people? 3 types are rated, operations, and design.
Rated Capacity
Number of inmates a prison can handle by expert perspective.
Operational Capacity
The number of inmates a prison can effectively accommodate based on management considerations.
Design Capacity
The number of inmates a prison was intended to hold when it was built or modified.
Classification System
System used by prison administrators to assign inmates to custody levels.
ADMAX
Administrative maximum. The term us used by the federal government to denote ultra-high-security prisons.
Jail
Holds people, pending, year or less.
Direct-supervision Jail
Temp confinement facility that eliminates many of the traditional barriers. Greater interaction.
Regional Jail
A jail that is built and run using the combined resources of a variety of local jurisdictions.
Privatization
The movement toward the wider use of private prisons.
