| Module VI Prisons Prison Administration | Module VI Prison Administration | Module VII Chapter 5 Probation Supervision | Module VII Reentry into the Community | Module VII Reentry into the Community |
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What is coercive power?
This is the type of power used by correctional staff that could be compared to bullying
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What is 'unity of command'?
If you were a correctional officer ('prison guard') that ran into a problem, this would be the concept of organization that means you only report to a single supervisor
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What are investigation and supervision?
These are the two primary functions that probation officers must fulfill in the course of performing their duties
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What is 'parole'?
This is the term for the period of supervision after an individual is released from prison
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What is abstaining from alcohol and other drugs, finding and keeping a job, staying away from convicted felons, not leaving the community without permission and adhering to a curfew?
This is an example of a 'standard' condition of parole supervision
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What are keep them in, keep them safe, keep them busy, keep them in line, and keep them healthy?
According to the confinement model of prisons, these are the five goals of imprisonment
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Who is the deputy/assistant warden(or superintendent) of (institutional/facility/operations) management?
This individual in the prison administration structure would be in charge of purchasing items necessary for the commissary
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What is a PSI or Pre-Sentence Investigation report?
This is the report that is the responsibility of probation (or probation and parole) officers must prepare for a judge between when an individual is convicted of a crime and when s/he is sentenced
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Who is Alexander Maconochie?
This individual is credited with developing the parole concept
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What are committing a new crime and having a technical violation of the conditions of parole?
These are the two ways in which parole can be taken away from an offender
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What is prisonization?
Per our class discussion, this is the term that refers to a social and psychological adaptation that occurs to the prison environment that makes the reentry process much more challenging
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What is the inmate balance theory?
This theory of administration within a prison recognizes the social power of inmates and makes use of this by allowing inmates to control some issues amongst themselves
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What are establishing relationship and defining roles; establish goals of supervision, and define what must be accomplished in order for probation to be terminated?
In terms of supervising the offender, these three things are often accomplished at the first meeting between the probation officer and the offender
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Who is Crofton?
This individual is credited with expanding on the concept of parole by connecting the progress through the prison system and the mechanisms for release from prison
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What is revocation?
This is the term used for taking away parole from an offender
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What is prison/inmate alcohol/hooch/prison wine?
Inmates are highly creative, and the constant production of this using materials required to be provided to inmates poses a great threat to prison administrators
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What is the administrative control theory?
This theory attributes the violence and disorder that occurs in a prison to weak, poorly trained and ineffective management
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What is the victim impact statement?
This is one part of the pre-sentence investigation report in which the victim of a crime has input
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What are grace/privilege, contract of consent and custody?
These are the three basic perspectives on the use of parole
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What are 'get a sense of who I am,' 'get a job,' 'get a support network of family and friends,' and 'get substance abuse/addictions under control'?
These are the four factors necessary for successful reentry
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What are deprivation of safety, deprivation of autonomy, deprivation of liberty, deprivation of goods and services and deprivation of heterosexual relationships?
According to our class discussion on prisons, these are the five deprivations according to Gresham Sykes that inmates are not allowed to have that make incarceration in and of itself punitive
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What is the ratio of inmates to correctional staff is too high?
This is the primary reason many jails are not 'accredited' by the American Correctional Association (and given budgetary constraints, is not able to be corrected)
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What is 'client specific planning'?
This is the alternate term for private presentence investigations
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What is mandatory release?
The majority of inmates that are released from prison fall into this type of release mechanism
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What is the Second Chance Act of 2007?
This act provides funding to support many reentry initiatives, one of which is providing bond money that acts as insurance for employers hiring ex-offenders
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What are 'back door strategies'?
This is the term for strategies used to alleviate prison overcrowding by allowing offenders to leave prison early
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