Chapter 4 Self-Check Quizzes

Institutional Corrections
. Prisons were more heterogeneous before the Prisoners' Rights Movement.

. The inmate code is the process of how inmates learn the ways of the prison setting.

. Most of the research on prison subculture tends to be from the study of maximum-security prisons.

. According to Irwin and Cressey (1962), the thief is a professional criminal who interacts with others while incarcerated.

. Opportunists adapt to prison by gleaning.

. Women tend to value privacy at a greater extend compared to males so they have a harder time adapting to the shared life, spaces, and rules of prison.

. One implication of the Prisoners' Rights Movement is that inmates are now required to participate in treatment program.

. In a decade or so, one half of all inmates will be considered elderly.

. Women correctional officers are more effective at defusing conflict before it escalates compared to male officers.

. Female prisons have less violence than male prisons.

. Which of the following would not be considered part of the inmate code?

. Inmate subcultures originally developed out of the __________________________.

. What era refers to the exponential increase in the number of persons incarcerated over the past 40-plus years?

. In addition to gangs, which two other groups changed the dynamics of the prison subculture in the late 20th-early 21st centuries?

. If an inmate grieves the inspection of mail, what Amendment might be violated?

. Inmates claiming unreasonable searches and seizures of their cells would be asserting that this Amendment is being violated?

. All of the following are disciplinary options corrections officials use can include all of the following except?

. What officer has the most contact with inmates on a regular basis?

. What event led to an increase in the number of mentally disordered inmates?

. This officer role type has little empathy for others, takes unreasonable risks to personal safety, and is quick to use threats, verbal coercion, and physical force to gain inmate compliance.

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