seminar stuff

Question 1

useem and kimball 1989 theory for why prisoners riot?

Answer 1

integrative theory

Question 2

integrative theory and what causes riots

Answer 2

• how variety of causal factors interact to create institutional environments in which routine incidents can develop into fully fledged riots
• adminstrative breakdowns
• institutional breakdwown

Question 3

institutional breakdown

Answer 3

• creates complex tightly coupled environment motivating prisoners to engage in collective violence
• changing perceptions

Question 4

administrative breakdown

Answer 4

• to facilitate the declining spiral of institutional erosion and render safety mechanisms ineffective
• weakening administration

Question 5

riots = product of…

Answer 5

product of administrative and institutional decline intertwining over considerable period of time

Question 6

what 3 theories make up why riots happen

Answer 6

• integrative
  -deprivation
  -breakdown

Question 7

what do riots as system failures challenge

Answer 7

challenges orthodox crisis management

Question 8

orthodox account of crisis 3 factors

Answer 8

-overcrowding
- understaffing
-psychiatric problems

Question 9

chamberlen and carvalho main function of punishment

Answer 9

• hostile solidarity
• punishment pleases
• social shadown - punitive attitudes

Question 10

summary of durkheim function of punishment

Answer 10

• punishement is morally affirming
• solidarity producing mechanism
• grounded in collective sentiments

Question 11

summary of marxist function of punishment

Answer 11

• punishment as economically condtioned state apparatus
• plays an ideological and political role
• in ruling class domination

Question 12

summary of foucalt function ofpunishment

Answer 12

• specific technologies of power-knowledge
• operate in penal realm
• links them to broader networks of discipline + regulation

Question 13

norbert elias summary of punishment

Answer 13

• importance of cultural sensibilities
• civilising process
• in shaping modern penal measures

Question 14

why is imprisonment painful - crewe

Answer 14

• features of incarceration
• deliberate abuses and derelcitions of duty
• consequences of systemic policies and institutional practices

Question 15

margaret archer 2003 different models of reflexivity

Answer 15

• internal conversations
• pursue practices
• projects that are consisyent with ultmate concerns

Question 16

exception to different models of reflexivity

Answer 16

fractured reflexives

Question 17

ben jarman

Answer 17

moral reflexivity

Question 18

era of hard drugs superseded by era of new

Answer 18

psychoactive drugs

Question 19

psychoactive drugs redefined

Answer 19

-inmate code
- social hierarchy
- social relations

Question 20

need to explore what relationships with sex offenders

Answer 20

horizontal

Question 21

what do sex offenders do to pass

Answer 21

-identity management
- moral engagement
- symbolic interactionism

• learning to pass viable identity in genral prison population

Question 22

what act delayed release for increasing prison numbers and removed fixed term sentencs

Answer 22

cja 2003

Question 23

umbrella of risk management 3 things

Answer 23

• dealing with serious criminal past
• engaging rehab services
• reintegration atfer custody

Question 24

what 3 pains do lifers experience

Answer 24

• pain of autonomy
• pain of indeterminacy
• pain of desistance