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Final Exam
Chapter 10, 11,12,13
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Criminal Justice
Undergraduate 4
12/13/2015

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Term
What phil. of punishment is The Death Penalty
Definition
Incapacitation
Term
General Deterrence
Definition
Punishment intended to be an example to the public
Term
Specific Deterrence
Definition
Punishment inflicted on criminals inoder to dicourage them from commiting future crimes.
Term
Restorative Justice
Definition
Involves the victim, community, and the offender
Term
Indeterminate Sentence
Definition
Specified a min or max served time.
Term
Determinate sentence
Definition
Fixes the term to imprisonment of a specfic time served.
Term
Presumptive Sentence
Definition

a sentence the legislature or a commission sets a min and max range of months or years.

judge sets length of the sentence w/in this range for special circumstances.

Term
Mandatory Sentence
Definition
Determined by the statues
Term
3 Strikes law
Definition
  • Adopted by 26 states & the federal gov.
  • Sentence w/ 3 felonies, to long term sentences. 
Term
Good Time
Definition
reduction of an inmates prison sentence at the discretion of the prison administor for good behavior or participation in the vocational educational or treatment programs
Term
Truth in sentence laws
Definition
law that requires offenders to sereve a substanial proportion (85%) of their sentence brfore being released
Term
Intermiedate Sanction
Definition
  • punishment that are less severe and costly than prison but more retrictive than traditional probation.
  • Provide restrictions on freedom
  • Exs: fines, home confinment, Intensive prob., restitution, community service, boot camp.
Term
Probation
Definition
  • Sentence an offender is able to serve outside in the community 
  • 60% of adults under supervision
Term
Shock Probation
Definition
A sentence an offender serves short-term and resentenced to probation
Term

Supreme Court Case: Furman v. Georgia (1972)

 

Definition
  • Unconstitutional
  • Ruled cruel and unusual punishment.
Term
Supreme Court Cases: Gregg v. Georgia(1976)
Definition
  • Judge and jury must consider two phases
  • Trial phases & Punishment phase
Term
Supreme Court Cases: McCleskey v. Kemp(1987)
Definition
Supreme Court rejects Georgias death penalty on grounds of racial discrimination
Term
Supreme Court Case: Atkins v. Virginia(2002)
Definition
Execution of the mentally retarded is unconstitutional
Term

Supreme Court case: roper v Simmons (2005)

 

Definition
Execution for a crime commited under the age of 18 is unconstitutional
Term
Corrections
Definition
Programs, services, facilities, and organizations, responsible for the management of people accussed or convicted of a crime.
Term
Penitentiary
Definition
  • A house of hard labor where offenders would be imprisoned for up to two years.
Term
Pennsylvania System: Walnut Street Jail
Definition
Each inmated was held in isolation from other inmates.
Term
Seperate Confinment Model:
Definition

Prisoners would not be treated vengenfully

Prisoners should be convinced that through hard & selective forms of suffering they could change their lives

Solitary confinement would prevent further corruption inside the prison

Offender would reflect on their transgressions & repent

 

Term
New York Systems
Definition
  • 1819 NY opended a penitentiary
  • Congregate system, prisoners were in isolation at night but worked w/ ther prisoners in shops during the day.
  • Rule of silence
Term
The Southern Model
Definition

The Lease System

In return for the clothes and food prisoners were leased to private parties who used them on plantations, farms, and mines.

Term
Mark System
Definition
Earning marks or credits towards released by labor. good behavior and educational achievement
Term
Rehabilitation Model
Definition
A model of correction that emphasizes the need to restore a convicted offender to a constructive place in society through some fun of vocational educatinal training or therapy
Term
Medical Model
Definition
A model of corrections based on the assumption that criminal behavior is caused by biological or psychological conditions that require treatment
Term
Community Model
Definition

A model of corrections based on the goal reintegrating the offender into the community

Dominated corrections until 1970's

Term
Crime Control Model
Definition
A model of corrections based on the assuption that criminal behavior can be controlled by more use of incarceration other forms of strict supervision
Term
Women in Prison
Definition
  • Only 7% incarcerated population are women
  • higher proportion of female defendants are sentenced to probation & intermediate punishments
  • 34% violent/ compared to 54% males
  • tended to form pseudo families
Term
Corrctional Officers
Definition

Self-Defense

Defense of the third persons

Upholding prison rules

Prevetion of Crime

Prevention of Escape

Term
Female and Male
Definition

Males more violent crimes

less violence in women prisons

More resposive to programs

Men seprated by security levels

Many women share their lives with officers

Term
Elderly Prisoners
Definition

121,000 Offenders over 55 yrs old

The cost 69,000/year

 

Term
Community Corrections
Definition

keep offenders in the community

building 

Building ties to fmaily

employment

 

Term
Probation Challenges
Definition

Public often see's it as a "slap on the wrist " for offendrs

 

case loads/officer-cannot provid the level of supervicon necessary

Term

Risk Management-

two basic goals

Definition

First- punishment should fit the offense, and correctional intervetion should neither raise nor lower the level of punishment

Second- the risk that the probaitoner will retuen to the crimes determines the amount and type of supervision

Term
Technical Violation
Definition

The probationer' sfailure to aide by the rules and conditions of probation as specified by the judge

 

officers have discretion

Term
Intermediate Sanctions
Definition
Dissatifaction with the traditional means of probation spervision, coupled with the crowding and high cost of prisons, has a resulted in the development of intermediate sancations.
Term
Parole
Definition
the conditional release of an inmate from incaceration, under supervision, after part of the prision sentence has been served
Term
Parole rest on 3 concept:
Definition

Grace- gov extnds the privilege of release

Contract- gov & prisoner- prisoner promises to abide by the coditions of release

Custody-he or she remains a responsibilty of the gov.

Term
Conditional Release
Definition
A term used in some states to avoid the rigidity of mandatory release, by placing convicts in various community settings
Term
Expiration Release
Definition
Release of a inmate from incaceration w/o further supervision;
Term
Challenges for Parolees
Definition

Many have no dependable living or employment arrangements

most are  unskilled or semi-skilled

Prison releases tend to be men in their 30's- inadequate education

Term
How does governing prisons differ from administering other public institutions
Definition

The defects of total power

limitations on rewards & punishment

The co-optation of correctional
officers by inmates through
exchange relationships

The strength of inmate leadership

Term
Custodial Model
Definition
A model of incarceration that emphasizes
security, discipline, & order
– dominates most maximumsecurity
institutions today
Term
Private Prisons
Definition

  Private facilities held 8% of all state prisoners and 16% of all federal prisoners

  17% of estimated 30,000 individuals detained by ICE are held in private
facilities

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