1. Inmates
Chapter Six

2. Offender Types—Career Criminal
Small number of criminals commit disproportionately high number of crimes

3. Offender Types—Elderly Prisoners
As long-term inmate population grows, so does number of elderly offenders

4. Corrections

5. Corrections (continued)
Inmates go in as petty, nonviolent offenders, and come out as serious, violent offenders.

6. Inmate Society
In his classic book, Asylums, Erving Goffman described prisons as total institutions.
Total institutions: An institutional setting

7. Inmate Society (continued)
Central to the inmate society of traditional men’s prisons is the convict code.
Convict code:

8. Inmate Society (continued)
Principles of the convict code include:

9. Prisonization

10. Violence and Victimization

11. The Professional Criminal
Also referred to as “White Collar Criminal”

12. The Drug Criminal
The 1980’s and 1990’s saw the “drug war.”