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Prisons and Prisoners
Exam 2
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Criminal Justice
Undergraduate 3
04/12/2012

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Women engaging in deviant or criminal behavior are viewed as ...
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depraved and morally corrupt
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In colonial America, men could be punished for not ...
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keeping their wives in check
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Elizabeth Fry dedicated herself to ...
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improvement of prison conditions for women
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Women prisoners in England and America...
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were not seperate from the men
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Dorothea Dix, Abby Hopper Gibbons, Mary Wistar and Sarah Doremus
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- all led several campaigns to improve the conditions of confinement for women

- insited that women inmates be looked after soley by women gaurds

 

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the purpose of incarcerating woment was to promote...
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a sense of femininity and the encourage "lady like" attitude and behavior
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Women inmate jobs refected
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sex-role stereotypes

 

-sewing, cooking, cleaning, spinning

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White women were usually sent to
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reformatories - less harsh and promoted optimism toward reform
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African American women were usually sent to
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custodial institutions - older inmates and convicted of more serious crimes
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Michael Foucault views punshment from the ...
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perspective of power (as it relates to discipline)
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Jose Ingenieros modified whose criminology? 
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Lombroso's
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the gender divide in Argentina was reinforced by tensions between the ...
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local catholic church and the state
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In Argentina men were sent to ...

women were sent to ...

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men: state-of-the-art correctional insitutions

women: facilities that were under the firm control o a religious order

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what did the nuns of the Good Shepard do?
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gained control of prisons for women from 1890 to 1970

- trained women staff to work and live with the inmates

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Lomborosian criminology said that women succumb to crime due to
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moral weakness, irrationality and low intelligence
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Patronado de Recluidas y Liberadas 

-group from the University of Buenos Aires

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campaigned to extend legal protection and improved care for female inmates
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the ideas and concepts driving criminology are constructed...
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by men, for men
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Van de Warker proposed ...
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women enter into crime to get attention from men
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Lombroso and Ferrero applied Darwins theory of natural selection.  What is their idea of natural selection in this context?
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 criminal women do not reproduce because their unattractive physical traits prevent men from pursuing them sexually
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the theory of social determinism...
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advocated sterilization and lengthy periods of confinement for female offenders so they would not bread future criminals
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the theory of negative influence...
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"weak" women were viewed sympathetically as being unable to take control over their own lives leaving them vulnerable to the manipulation of "bad" men
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some observers assume that womem are prone to violent "acting out" behavior and other forms of deviant behavior during critical stages of their ...?
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menstrual cycle (aka PMS)
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what is the percentage of women in the US penal population?
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7% - more than 105,250 women in prison (2008)
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hispanic women count for about 1 in every ___ women in state prison
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1 in every _7_
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Co-Corrections means . . . 
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housing both men and women (low-risk and non-violent)

working together, schooling together, recreation together

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William Wilbanks takes a stand agaisnt racism by saying ...
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i take the position that the perception of the criminal justice system as racist is a myth
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Scottsboro Boys Case
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-9 african americam boys fight on a train

-get arrested

-two women accuse them of raping them

-8 of the 9 are found guilty and sentenced to death

-on appeals they were freed from death sentence due to a violation of their 14th amendment

-eventually got freed

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Samuel S Liebowitz
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defended the Scottsboro boys on appeal and got them out of death due to a violation of their 14th amendment
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racial profiling
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the use of race as a key factor in police decisions to stop and interrogate citizens
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African American inmates are subject to ...
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more cell searches and denied passes that permit them to move freely throughout the prison
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Scott Christianson observes ...
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not only have the prisons gotten bigger, but they've gotten blacker
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Steven Spitzers idea of social dynamite ...
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perceptions that a certain segment of the population, namely young minority males, is particularly menacing
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Steffenmeier documented that ...
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young, black males are subject to the harshest prison terms
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the Patterson and Lynch study suggest that ...
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discrimination does not always emerge in the form of harsher treatment of a particular group but rather as favoritism to another 
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Soledad Brothers case
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-accused of beating a white guard to death

-denied having anything to do with the beating

-said the guards handpicked them due to their black activism

-charges were dropped

 

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George Jackson
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was one of the Soledad Brothers

wrote a book about his life as a black American

was shot and killed by a white gaurd who said Jackson was trying to escape

 

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Angela Davis was part of what group and what did she do?
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Black Panther Party

waged a campaign of support for the defendents of the Soledad Brothers

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Steffensmeier and demuth discovered what about hispanic defendents?
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hispanic defendents are the defendent subgroup that is at risk for the harshest penalties
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Hispanics are normally prone to sterotypes like
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lazy, irresponsible and prone to crime and gang activity
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hispanics are a huge target for what law-enforcement campaign?
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the war on drugs
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African American females are more likely than white females to ...
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turn to street crime out of a sense for survival
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Rosebaum discovered that African American women were...
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sentenced to longer incarceraton periods than white, asain, latino, ect women
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What is the JJDP Act and what does it do?
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Juvenile justice and delinquency prevention

 

each state had to determine the extent of the problem and demonstrate measures to reduce it where it exists

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moral panic
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a turbulent reaction to a social problem
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Central Park rape case
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women is raped by 7 teenagers while on her job

 

soon became known as wilding - sexual violence commited by a group of urban teens

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