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18 Cards in this Set
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aliens
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foreign born non citizens
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community corrections
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a model of corrections based on the goal of reintegrating the offender in the community
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congregate system
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a penitentiary ssytem, developed in auburn, NY in which each inmate was held in isolation during the night but worked and ate with other prisoners during the day under a rule of silence
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contract labor system
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a system under which inmates' labor was sold on a contractual basis to private employers who provided the machinery and raw materials with which inmates made saleable products in the institution
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corrections
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the varieyt of programs, services, facilites, and orgainzations responsible for hte management of peope who have been acccused or convited of criminal offenses
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crime control model
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a model of criminal justice system tha tassums freedom is so important that every effort must be made to repress crime; it emphasizes efficiency speed finality and the capacity to apprehend try convict and dispose of a high proportion of offenders
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deportattion
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formal removal by the federal goernment of an alien from teh US for violation of immigration or other laws
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enlightenment
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a movement durin gthe eihteenth century in england and france in which concepts of liberalism rationalism equality and individualism dominated social and political thinking
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hands off policy
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judges should not interfere with the administration of correctional institutions
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jail
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an instituion authroized to hold pretiral detainees and sentenced misdemeanats for periods longr than 48 hours; most jails are adminsitered by country governments; in six jurisdictions by state governments
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lease system
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a system under which inmates were leased to contractors who provided prisoners with food and clothing in exchange for their labor; in southern tates ht eprisoners wre used as agricultural mining logging and construction laborers
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mark system
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a system in which offenders receieve a certain number of poitns at the time of sentencing, based on the severity of their crime. prisoners can reduce their term and gain release by earning marks to reduce these points throough labor, good behavior and educational achievement
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medical model
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a model of correctiosn based on the assumption that criminal behavior is caused by biological or psychologial conditiosn that require treatment
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penitentiary
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an institution intended to punish criminals by isolating them from society and from one another so they can reflect on their past misdeeds repent and reform
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prison
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an institution for th eincarceration of people convicted of serious crimes, usually felonies
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reformatory
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an instituion for young offenders, emphasizing training, a mark system of classification indeterminate sentences and parole
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rehabilitation model
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a model of correctiosn that emphasizes the need to restore a convicted offender to a constructive place in society through some form of vocational or educational trainign or therapy
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separate confinement
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a penitentiary system, developed in pennsylvania, in which eah inmate was held in isolation from other inmates. all activities, inclduign craft work, took place in cells
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