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| incarceration rate in 2011 |
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| 500 per 100,000 Americans (five fold increase since '70s) 1% of all adults |
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| number of people incarcerated |
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| almost 2.3 million counting jails and prisons. |
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| rate of people in corrections (parole/probation included) |
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3% of all citizens
7.5 million Americans |
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| first year in 30 years, that they held fewer people incarcerated than the year before. (increase stopped) |
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| percentage of African American men in their twenties |
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one-third are under some form of correctional control.
One in Six have been to prison |
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$70 billion a year
prison budgets are most expensive penal system. |
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| 1 in 28 has been imprison |
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| variety of programs, services, facilities, and organizations responsible for the management of individuals who have been accused or convicted of criminal offenses |
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| actions and practices, of individuals and institutions, designed to induce conformity with the rules and norms of society |
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| "crime is normal and punishment performs the important function of spotlighting societal rules and values." |
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| Three basic concepts of Western Criminal Law |
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| central purpose of corrections |
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| to carry out criminal sentence. to be "corrective" |
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| percentage of corrections on parole or probation |
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| complex whole consisting of interdependent parts whose operations are directed toward common goals and are influenced by the environment in which they function. |
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| punishment and protection |
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| paradox of progress for corrections |
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| positive feedback yields growth, but positive feedback doesnt occur. just negative feedback |
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California
Florida
New York
Texas
together handle more than one in three state prisoners
two=fifths of all corrections |
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| # fed prison vs. state prison |
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102 vs. 1,719
90% of cost falls on state and local goverments |
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| from 1940-1970. after 1970, corrections was get-tough policies |
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| public service worker who interact directly with citizens in the course of their work, granting access to government programs and providing services within them |
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| law of retaliation- principle that punishment should correspond in degree and kind to the offense. "eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth" |
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| "man money" money paid to relatives of a murdered person or to the victim of a crime |
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