Probation & Parole
The conditional release of an individual from incarceration, under supervision, after part of the prison sentence has been served
What is parole?
A set of rules of conduct that reflect the values and norms of the prison social system and help define for inmates the image of the model prisoner.
What is the inmate code?
______ offenses seem to be the #1 contributor to the increase of women in prison.
What is Drug?
A child who has committed an act that if committed by an adult would be criminal.
What is a delinquent?
Traditionally, a biological concept used to distinguish groups of people by their skin color and other physical features.
What is race?
This occurs after an individual has served time equal to a certain percentage of the total sentence minus good time.
What is mandatory release?
This term describes how these men view their prison terms as a brief, inevitable break in the criminal career, a cost of doing business.
What is doing time?
It is argued that the small number of women incarcerated justifies the lack of ______, vocational, and other programs.
What is educational?
Misbehaviors that are not against the law but are troubling when done by juveniles because they are so young.
What are status offenses?
The concept that is used to divide people according to their cultural characteristics: language, religion, and group tradition.
What is ethnicity?
Conditional release by the parole board that allows the board to assess the individual’s readiness for release.
What is discretionary release?
This term describes how some individuals take advantage of prison programs to better themselves and improve their minds and prospects for success after release.
What is gleaning?
Women's prisons are generally located farther from ________.
What is family & friends?
This program seeks to avoid the burdensome consequences of formal processing.
What is Diversion?
Differential treatment of an individual or group without reference to the behavior or qualifications of the same.
What is discrimination?
An investigation and summary report of a convicted person’s background that helps the judge decide on an appropriate sentence.
What is the presentence investigation or presentence report?
This term describes the newcomer to prison.
What is fish?
Social relationships in women's prison appear _______.
What is more voluntary than in men's prisons?
Juvenile justice equivalent of parole, in which a delinquent is released from a custodial sentence and supervised in the community.
What is aftercare?
The unequal treatment of one group by the criminal justice system, compared with the treatment accorded other groups.
What is disparity?
One of two ways a convicted person's probation can be terminated.
What is successful completion or violation?
The process by which a new resident absorbs the customs of prison society and learns to adapt to the environment.
What is prisonization?
Females convicted of crimes have a strict code of conduct like males convicted of crimes. (T/F)
What is false?
The situation in which many youths who fail in school end up in prison.
What is the school to prison pipeline?
The belief that white fear of African Americans is least when whites are the majority but greatest when African Americans are a substantial minority.
What is the racial threat hypothesis?