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Total Institution is a place of residence and work where a large number of like-situated individuals, cut off from the wider society for an appreciable period of time, together lead an enclosed, formally administered round of life”

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Correct Answer: True

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In Supermax Prisons Inmates are confined to their windowless cells 24 hours a day, except for showers ______ times a week (during which they are restrained) and solitary exercise time a couple of times a week.

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Correct Answer: Three

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Prisons are correctional facilities that have a philosophy of penitence (hence penitentiary) and that were created as a grand reform, as they represented, in theory at least, a major improvement over the brutality of punishment that characterized _____ law and practice.

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Correct Answer: All of these

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Adoption of the inmate subculture by inmates is known as ______

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Correct Answer: Prisonization

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Norms, values, _____ that are distinctive to prisons refers to Prison Subculture.

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Correct Answer: All of these

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Deprivation of ______ is considered Pain of Imprisonment.

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Correct Answer: All of these

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In New Mexico State Penitentiary _____ inmates were killed by other inmates over 3 days. Numerous inmates, along with staff hostages, were beaten or raped. Millions of dollars in damage was done.

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Correct Answer: 33

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Mortification is a process that occurs as inmates enter a prison and suffer from the loss of the many roles they occupied in the wider world (Goffman, 1961; Sykes, 1958). Only the role of inmate is available—a role that is _____

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Correct Answer: Both a and b

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_______ Security Prisons are created for lower level felony offenders and those who are “short timers,” or people who are relatively close to a release date. Inmates are not expected to pose escape or behavioral problems. Ability and willingness to work are often prerequisites for classification to this type of facility.

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Correct Answer: Minimum

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_____ hold a mix of people in terms of crime categories but who program well.

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Correct Answer: Medium Security Prisons

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These facilities have high external and internal security are known as _____ Security Prisons.

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Correct Answer: Maximum

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Mature Coping occurs in prisons when the inmate deals “with life’s problems like a responsive and responsible human being, one who seeks _____

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Correct Answer: All of these

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Importation occurs when inmates bring aspects of the larger _____ into the prison.

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Correct Answer: Culture

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The gender one identifies with, which can differ from one’s assigned sex at birth is known as ______

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Correct Answer: Gender identity

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Gangs have a ______

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Correct Answer: Both a and b

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Deinstitutionalization of People with Mental illnesses happened in the United States as a result of the civil rights movement and the related effort to increase the rights of people involuntarily committed to mental hospitals. It was also helped along by ______

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Correct Answer: Both a and b

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In Attica Prison Riot ten hostages and _____ inmates were dead or dying when the prison was secured. Another 80 inmates had gunshot wounds.

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Correct Answer: 29

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In Attica Prison Riot violence quickly spread because inmates were frustrated and angry about the _____

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Correct Answer: All of these

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Congress passed the Community Mental Health Act in ______, ending much of the federal support for mental health hospitals.

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Correct Answer: 1963

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According to a 2004 survey of prison inmates, one of the most prevalent medical problems was ______.

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Correct Answer: Hypertension

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Which of the following is NOT an inmate role identified by Sykes?

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Correct Answer: The bookie

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Instrumental violence is ______.

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Correct Answer: Violence to achieve some end

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The rate of ______ is far below the public “myth” of what goes on in prisons.

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Correct Answer: Sexual assault

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The pains of imprisonment include all of the following except deprivation of ______.

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Correct Answer: Starvation

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Inmates use the prison subculture to ______.

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Correct Answer: Seek positions of power

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The means whereby prisoners adopt the subculture of an institution is called ______.

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Correct Answer: Prisonization

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Inmates, according to Sykes, are motivated to engage in deviance to alleviate the pains associated with imprisonment.

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Correct Answer: True

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The mentally ill population is increasing in prisons and jails at an exponential rate.

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Correct Answer: False

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The “total institution” of prison provides a perfect environment for an inmate subculture to form.

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Correct Answer: True

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Alcatraz was built in 1934 as the first supermax prison in the United States to hold the era’s most notorious gangsters.

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Correct Answer: True

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About one-fifth of prisons in the United States are designated maximum security, and they hold about one-half of the prison population due to their larger size.

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Correct Answer: False

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Goffman (1961) believed that inmates suffered mortification, the loss of many roles they had occupied in the outside world.

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Correct Answer: True

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Classification focuses first on the inmate’s needs, followed by the space available, and finally on security needs.

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Correct Answer: False

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