1. Chapter 13 Flashcards

2. benign neglect

3. disparities in treatment, services, and programming that happen largely by default

4. co-correctional unit

5. a facility housing both men and women

6. cools

7. inmates who manipulated other inmates to make their own time pass more quickly and easily

8. custody variance score

9. a score that represents the sum of risk factors of a prisoner and can be used to determine an increase or decrease in their security levels

10. dual diagnosis

11. some inmates enter prison using illegal substances or abuse legal ones and they suffer from posttraumatic stress disorder

12. duality of women

13. in the 1860s the English social critic Henry Mayhew described criminal women as both Madonna and whore

14. egalitarian families

15. husbands and wives share power and their positions in society are equal

16. habilitation

17. the process of acquiring the basic life skills needed to function in society

18. liberation hypothesis

19. women’s liberation opened up criminal activities to a new generation of women and that there would be an end to the traditional male–female distinctions in crime

20. Marxist feminism

21. male dominance reflects a social ideology that is willing to subjugate women, first to capital and second to men

22. patriarchal families

23. families that produce daughters whose futures are limited to domestic labor and consumption; the fathers exercise great control over the lives of the girls and young women

24. play families

25. also known as pseudo-families: women in prison tend to need more emotional support and create families and members assume the role of spouse, parent, child, sibling, or grandparent for one another

26. power-control theory

27. suggests that the presence of power and the absence of control in egalitarian families create conditions conducive to common forms of delinquency for both boys and girls

28. pseudo-families

29. also known as play families: women in prison tend to need more emotional support and create families and members assume the role of spouse, parent, child, sibling, or grandparent for one another

30. radical feminism

31. the theory that male power and privilege both define all social relations and are the primary cause of all social inequities

32. socialist feminism

33. a form of feminist criminology based on the belief that the intersection of social class and gender is the nexus of crime

34. the mix

35. defiance exhibited by certain inmates

36. women’s reformatory

37. a cottage-style facility where female staff supervise inmates and teach them appropriate domestic skills