Inmates Chapter Six

Offender Types—Career Criminal Small number of criminals commit disproportionately high number of crimes

Offender Types—Elderly Prisoners As long-term inmate population grows, so does number of elderly offenders

Corrections

Corrections (continued) Inmates go in as petty, nonviolent offenders, and come out as serious, violent offenders.

Inmate Society In his classic book, Asylums, Erving Goffman described prisons as total institutions. Total institutions: An institutional setting

Inmate Society (continued) Central to the inmate society of traditional men’s prisons is the convict code. Convict code:

Inmate Society (continued) Principles of the convict code include:

Prisonization

Violence and Victimization

The Professional Criminal Also referred to as “White Collar Criminal”

The Drug Criminal The 1980’s and 1990’s saw the “drug war.”