Exam 4 Flashcards
(22 cards)
What are the justifications for sentencing offenders to the community?
- Prisons are expensive
- helps with overcrowding
- effectively watch them in the community
How are fines typically used by judges?
a second form of punishment
What does it mean to be on probation?
The offender gets to stay in the community under court enforced conditions
How does a offender get their probation revoked?
- new crime committed
- technical violation
What are the intermediate sanctions?
- Intensive Supervision Probation (ISP) (Stricter conditions)
- Shock Probation (sentenced to a longer time but released after a short time)
- House Arrest (Offender monitored at home, more restrictive curfew)
- Boot Camps (physical work, degradation)
- Day Reporting Centers (Criminal day care, counseling, help finding a job)
What was punishment in colonial America like?
- Death
- Corporeal Punishment
- Banishment
What is the difference between the Eastern Penitentiary and the Auburn Penitentiary?
Eastern Penitentiary - Solitary confinement
Auburn Penitentiary - Congregate system
What principles came from the 1870 Reform?
Rehabilitation and shift to indeterminate sentence
What are the theories for the incarceration rate in the U.S
- Crime rate
- Better police and prosecutors
- Construction
- criminal justice policies (War on drugs)
What are the characteristics of prisons?
- Institution does not get to select its own clients
- Little control over when their clients are released
- Institution relies on the inmates for many day to day operations
- Relies on cooperation between inmates and staff
- Prisons are holding people against their will
What is “Prisonization”
the assimilation of inmates into subcultures
What are the elements of inmate subculture?
- Language - They have their own vocabulary
- Values - don’t snitch, conservative values, don’t align with the staff
- Economy - Bartering
- Social System - The crime that you commit determines your status
What is the exchange relationship between officers and inmates
Inmates keep others in line in exchange for little things from the correctional officers
What are the pains of imprisonment?
- Loss of Liberty
- Loss of Autonomy
- Loss of Goods and Services
- Loss of Security
- Loss of Heterosexual Activities
- Loss of Privacy
How do female subcultures vary from male ones?
They form a family-like subculture
What is the significance of 1871 Ruffin vs. Commonwealth?
Inmates were called “slaves of the state”
Do inmates keep the 1st amendment?
partial/limited communication
Do inmates keep the 4th amendment?
no/safety issue
Do inmates keep the 5th amendment?
yes/due process/dicipline
Do inmates keep the 6th amendment?
yes/access to the court system
Do inmates keep the 8th amendment?
yes/cruel and unusual punishment
Do inmates keep the 14th amendment?
yes/due process
