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Lecture 9: Experiencing imprisonment (vulnerable populations) Flashcards

1
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Who is vulnerable to some extent in prison?

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Everyone

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2
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What symptoms involve a rupture with reality?

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Psychotic

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3
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What refers to drinking that is hazardous but not addiction?

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Hazardous drinking

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4
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Putting sex offenders together in one wing is said to increase what?

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Their vulnerability

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5
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What category of staff can prisoners sometimes blame for their imprisonment?

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Police

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6
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What has contributed to the rise in older prisoners?

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Longer sentences and an aging population

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7
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What term refers to the difficulties older prisoners have in adjusting to release?

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Resettlement issues

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8
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What does HMMPS stand for?

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Her Majesty’s Prison and Probation Service

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9
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What term refers to prisons being designed without considering older inmates’ needs?

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Institutional thoughtlessness

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10
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Why might a dying prisoner not receive adequate pain relief medication?

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Security restrictions on medications

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11
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What term refers to sex offenders seen as the lowest of all offenders?

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Nonces

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12
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What does VPU stand for?

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Vulnerable Prisoners Unit

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13
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What does “fronting out” refer to?

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Sex offenders concealing their offence

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14
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What concept refers to sex offenders taking on their offence as their identity?

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Master status

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15
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What risk is there in putting sex offenders together in prison?

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Networking

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16
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What coping strategy involves sex offenders ignoring each other’s offences?

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Deliberate ignorance

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17
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What concept refers to the difficulties reconciling professional duties towards sex offenders with instinctive disgust?

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Emotional labour

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18
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What is said to require conscious effort when working with sex offenders?

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Compartmentalization

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19
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Who may hold more negative attitudes towards sex offenders than the general public?

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Officers

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20
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What has caused the increase in older prisoners?

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Longer sentences and more historic offence prosecutions

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21
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What is said to be needed with mobility impaired older prisoners?

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Wheelchair assistants

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22
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What medical conditions are noted as more prevalent in older inmates?

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Dementia and incontinence

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23
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What is noted as often lacking in medical care for dying inmates?

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Pain management

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24
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What policy change can enable the early release of a dying prisoner?

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Compassionate parole

25
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Which group experiences the document state typically has better education backgrounds?

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Child sex offenders

26
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What are sex offenders against both children and adult noted as being?

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Rare

27
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What hierarchical status do sex offenders hold?

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The lowest

28
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What Rule outlines guidelines for protecting vulnerable inmates?

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Rule 45

29
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What does research show some treatment staff view sex offenders as?

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Manipulative and devious

30
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What is said to sometimes ‘spill over’ when working with sex offenders?

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Emotions

31
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What does research show is needed to work effectively with sex offenders?

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Emotional regulation

32
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What has likely increased sex offender numbers in prison?

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Changes in prosecution rules

33
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What concept refers to loss of identity outside an institution?

A

Mortification

34
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What is a common hazard for physically impaired inmates?

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Social exclusion

35
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What issue relating to sex offenders does the document state likely challenges resettlement?

A

Community attitudes

36
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What does research highlight as a need for officers working with sex offenders?

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Specific training

37
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What are factors associated with vulnerable (to wound)?

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  • Susceptible
  • Defenceless
  • Helpless
  • Weak
  • Exposed
38
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What does importing pre-existing vulnerabilities make more difficult?

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Makes adaption and coping more difficult

39
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How are some people more vulnerable because of the prison environment?

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  • Physical layout and conditions of prison
  • Use of separate accommodation according to perceived vulnerabilities
40
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What is the fastest growing age group in prisons?

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Older prisoners

41
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What is the impact of longer and life sentences on older prisoners?

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Greater difficulties for resettlement

42
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What is the HMPPS response to problems with older prisoners?

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Emergence of specialist assisted living units and older prisoner units

43
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What challenges for prison officers are there in relation to older prisoners?

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Having to care rather than control

44
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What is institutional thoughtlessness in prisons? - Crawley and Sparks 2005

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Way in which prison regimes roll on with little reference to needs and sensibilities of the old

45
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Examples of institutional thoughtlessness:

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  • Physical layout: stairs
  • Social exclusion: work, gym, educational
  • Fear of decline and dying in prison
46
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What do sexual offenders provoke?

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  • Strong, emotive feelings among general population
  • These attitudes are imported into prisons, by prisoners and staff
47
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What type of sexual offenders against adults?

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Specialists or generalists

48
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What type of sexual offenders against children?

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Typically older

49
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Why are people convicted of sexual offending are doubly excluded?

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‘Outcast among outcasts’

50
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What impact on prison experience do sexual offenders feel?

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Bullying, threats and fatal violence

51
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What is HMPPS response for sexual offenders?

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  • Rule 45
  • Use of vulnerable prison units (VPUs)
  • Specialist prisons
52
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How do sex offenders cope on normal location?

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Fronting out

53
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What difficulties do sex offenders have in concealing their offence in normal location?

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‘Passing’ - Schwaebe

54
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How do sex offenders cope on VPU or dedicated prison?

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  • Offence integral to personal and social identity
  • Greater safety and ease of treatment access
55
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Criticisms of sex offenders on VPU or dedicated prisons:

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  • Potential to facilitate networking
  • Reinforcement of identity?
56
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Managing a spoiled identity for sex offenders:

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  • Coping strategy through scapegoating? Offending hierarchies including between ‘nonces’​
  • Deliberate ignorance of each other’s offences
57
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How do trained treatment facilitators view their sex offender clients?

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‘Viewed their clients commonly as manipulative and devious individuals’

58
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What is professional-personal dialectic?

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  • Separate individual from offence and reconcile professional responsibilities from instinctive feelings of disgust
  • Compartmentalization of work and personal life

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