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55 Cards in this Set
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The degree of prisonization experienced by an inmate tends to vary over time
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True
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Inmate suffering from significant mental illness do not account for a significant number of those imprisoned
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False
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Sheik Omar Abdel-Rahman, a blind Muslim cleric and spiritual leader for many Islamic terrorists, including Osama Bin Laden, has continued to motivate terrorist acts even as a prisoner of the Federal Bureau of prisons
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True
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Correctional personnel can play a role in protecting America from attacks by terrorists.
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True
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Research indicates that prison subcultures have been stable over time despite changes in the wider culture.
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False
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Some authors suggest that violence in women's prisons occurs less often than in men's prisons.
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True
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A prisoner's mail can be censored if it is necessary to do so for security
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True
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A writ of habeas corpus directs the person detaining a prisoner to bring him or her before a judicial officer to determine the lawfulness of the imprisonment
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True
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The primary concern of correctional officers today is the effective rehab of inmates
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False
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Like inmates, correctional officers are socialized into the official and unofficial rules of staff society
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True
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Few women's prisons have programs specifically designed for female offenders
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True
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The majority of offenses committed bu women who are in prisons and jails are violent offenses
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False
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Inmates have a reasonable expectation of privacy in their cells
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False
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Prison language is also called:
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prison argot
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Erving Goffman used what term to describe places where the same people work, recreate, worship, eat, and sleep together.
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total institutions
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The socialization of inmates into the prison subculture is called:
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prisonization
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The ________ model of prison culture suggests that inmates bring values, roles, and behavior patterns from the outside world.
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importation
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In 2006, in the case of Beard v. Bank, the U.S. Supreme Court held that prison officials in Pennsylvania could prohibit the state's most violent inmates from:
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receiving magazines, photo's and newspapers sent to them in the mail.
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Researchers have described one type of prisoner who taked advantage of the positive experiences the prison has to offer as:
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an opportunist
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Which of the following terms in prison slanf for an informant?
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Rat
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A female offender, who is a career criminal and generally supportive of inmates' values in a women's prison, is called:
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a cool
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Cruz v. Beto in 1972, held that inmates must be given:
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a reasonable opportunity to pursue their faith
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Wolf v. McDonald provided inmates with:
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appropriate due process before sanctions could be levied against them
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Within a few years following the end of the hands-off doctrine, _____ intervened in the running of prisons in numerous states.
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the federal courts
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The ten years between 1970 and 1980 have been called ________ of prison riots.
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the explosive decade
began with a massive uprisong at Attica Prison in NY State, 43 killed, 80 wounded. Ended in Santa Fe NM |
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This group experiences the highest rate of physical illness while in prison
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females
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When a women is in prison, her children are most likely to be cared for by:
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grandparents
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what word describes aggressive men who assume the masculine role in homosexual relations in male prisons?
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wolf
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which type of prisoner thinks of prison as home and feels more comfortable institutuinalized than on the streets?
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colonizer
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Some studies estimate the proportion of mentally deficient inmates at about:
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10%
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The most radical form of Islam, ______ is being spread in American prisons providing new recruits who are Americqan citizens.
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Wahhabism
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correctional personnel have a role to play in preventing terrorist attacks on America by:
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intelligence gathering
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Rookie correctional officers learn through socialization that:
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the ideals of professionalism stresses in training are rarely translated into reality
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the national institute of correctiond defines _______ as Creating an environment...that reflects an understanding of the realities of women's lives and addresses the issues of women
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gender-responsiveness
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which of the following is not a cause of prison riots
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multiple treatment opportunities for inmates
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according to the national institute for corrections, the profile for a female prisoner in america would include the following characteristic:
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survivor of physical or sexual abuse
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which state has the largest number of female prisoners
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Texas
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According to the national institute of corrections _______ percent of women entering prison are mothers
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80
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streetwise young women with little respect for traditional prison values are called:
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crack kids
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in prison the primary threat of Muslim radicalization comes from
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inmates
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lifes:
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arrested repeatedly
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squares
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few earlier experiences with criminal lifestyles, sympathize with values and attitudes of conventional society
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suits to formally request a hearing to determine the lawfulness if imprisonment are generally called:
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writs of habeas corpus
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while in prison American citizens can be introduced to a radical form of:
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Islam
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A _______ is a formalized arrangement, usually involving a neutral hearing board, whereby inmates have the opportunity to register complaints about the conditions of their confinement
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grievance procedure
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the courts have generallyy held that inmates going before disciplinary hearing boards are intitled to:
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notice of the charges brought against them
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civil death refers to
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inmates denied the opportunity to vote, hold public office, or enter into contracts
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a prison official may be held liable under the 8th Amendment for acting with _______ to ubnate health or safety only if he or she knows that inmates face a substantial risk of serious harm and disregards that risk
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deliberate indifference
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in regard to medical treatment the us supreme court protects prisoners from:
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the deliberate indifference on the part of the staff
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which supreme court case signals a return to the hands-off doctrine of earlier times:
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Wilson v. Seiter
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what federal law reduced the number of suits brought by state prisoners in federal courts?
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Prison Litigation Reform Act
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Survey results published in 2006 reveal that about ______ of men and women reported having experienced one of more incidents of pressured or coerced sexual contact during their present incarceration
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20%
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one out of every _____ american children has a parent in prison today?
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43
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1 out of 111 white children has experienced the imprisonment of a parent
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info
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1 out of 15 black children has experienced the imprisonment of a parent
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info
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