1. Subject: Unit VI Key Terms
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Subject: Unit VI Key Terms

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3. 1. The process by which inmates adapt to prison society; the taking on of the ways, mores, customs, and general culture of the penitentiary.
Prisonization

4. 2. The belief that inmate subcultures are brought into prisons from the outside world.
Importation theory

5. 3. A set of norms and values among prison inmates
3. A set of norms and values among prison inmates. It is generally antagonistic to the official administration and rehabilitation programs of the prison.
Prison code

6. 4. A historical policy of American courts not to intervene in prison management. Courts tended to follow the doctrine until the late 1960s.
Hands-off doctrine

7. 5. A legal obligation to another person to do, pay, or make good something.
Civil liability

8. 6. Writ of habeas corpus
An order that directs the person detaining a prisoner to bring him or her before a judge, who will determine the lawfulness of the imprisonment.

9. 7. Money a court may award to punish a wrongdoer when a wrongful act was intentional and malicious or was done with reckless disregard for the rights of the victim.
Punitive damages

10. 8. Intentional and willful indifference
8. Intentional and willful indifference. Within the field of correctional practice, the term refers to calculated inattention to unconstitutional conditions of confinement.
Deliberate indifference

11. 9. Frivolous lawsuits
Lawsuits with no foundation in fact. They are generally brought for publicity, political, or other reasons not related to law.

12. Doctrine of sovereign immunity
10. A historical legal doctrine that held that a governing body or its representatives could not be sued because it made the law and therefore could not be bound by it.
Doctrine of sovereign immunity

13. 11. The belief that inmate subcultures develop in response to the deprivations in prison life.
Deprivation theory

14. 12. Inmate subculture
The habits, customs, mores, values, beliefs, or superstitions of the body of inmates incarcerated in correctional institutions; also, the inmate social world. Also may be called prisoner subculture.

15. Reference
Schmalleger, F., & Smykla, J. O. (2015). Corrections in the 21st century (Seventh ed.). New York: McGraw-Hill.