1. Chapter 7 Flashcards

2. building tenders

3. inmates who were tacitly acknowledged by prison administrators to have informal social control of a given inmate area

4. close-custody unit

5. a form of administrative segregation

6. con-politicians

7. inmates with money and influence who through skill and manipulation obtain goods or services

8. cultural importation hypothesis

9. inmates enter prison with a variety of values and experiences that may contradict the values in prison

10. deprivation hypothesis

11. a major function of the inmate subculture’s normative system is to prevent the internalization of social rejection and its conversion into self-rejection

12. doing time

13. inmates who view the prison experience as a short break in their criminal career

14. drug offenses

15. clearly played a primary role in the overall growth of the prison population during the period from 2000 to 2010

16. fish

17. inmates new to prison life

18. frustration riots

19. during the 1940s and 1950s, dozens of prisons in the nation experienced these types of riots between a unified inmate subculture and prison authorities

20. gleaning

21. inmates who adapt to prison life by getting as much out of prison as possible through programs and self-improvement

22. imprisonment binge

23. due to increased incarceration levels, crowding, and new construction

24. inmate code

25. attitudinal and behavioral norms of prison subculture

26. jailing

27. inmates who adapts to prison life by not thinking of the world outside as home

28. legitimate inmate economy

29. the facility’s store, commissary, or canteen

30. outlaws

31. inmates who rely on force and physical violence to obtain what they want from other inmates

32. pains of imprisonment

33. term used to describe the inmate’s emotional reaction to the loss of: liberty, goods and services, heterosexual relationships, autonomy, freedom of movement, and security

34. political riot

35. riot where inmates make demands submitted to prison officials

36. prison gangs

37. not a part of the traditional prison culture they are cliques and informal groups organized principally or even exclusively on racial or ethnic lines

38. prison riot

39. a group attempt by inmates to take over part or all of the prison

40. prison subculture

41. the negative, animosity directed equally at the prison staff and at free society

42. prisonization

43. the mechanism by which one becomes a member of that subculture – the process through which prison inmates adapt the general culture of the penitentiary

44. psychological victimization

45. the threat of physical harm

46. punks

47. inmates who passively participate in homosexuality in prison or jail

48. race riots

49. apolitical racial conflict was a crucial factor in these types riots

50. rage riots

51. often spontaneous, an expression of real or perceived inmate frustration with mistreatment

52. right guys

53. those rare inmates who follow all of the precepts of the code; the most prisonized of all prison or jail residents

54. security threat groups

55. prison gangs are found in 40 state prison systems, the District of Columbia and in the US Bureau of Prisons

56. solidary opposition

57. the inmate’s collective response to the pains of imprisonment

58. Square Johns

59. inmates who follow the prison’s official rules, take part in institutional programming, and generally ignore all but the snitching provision of the inmate code

60. sub rosa inmate economy

61. an underground marketplace that exists outside the legitimate inmate economy

62. unit management

63. the belief that providing treatment such as psychological or educational assistance to create small, semi-autonomous self-contained institutions of approximately 50 to 100 inmates to break up existing ties based on race, ethnicity or gangs makes individuals less likely to engage in future crimes

64. wolves

65. the aggressor of sex in prisons or jails who does not view themselves as homosexual