Chapter 13 Flashcards

benign neglect

disparities in treatment, services, and programming that happen largely by default

co-correctional unit

a facility housing both men and women

cools

inmates who manipulated other inmates to make their own time pass more quickly and easily

custody variance score

a score that represents the sum of risk factors of a prisoner and can be used to determine an increase or decrease in their security levels

dual diagnosis

some inmates enter prison using illegal substances or abuse legal ones and they suffer from posttraumatic stress disorder

duality of women

in the 1860s the English social critic Henry Mayhew described criminal women as both Madonna and whore

egalitarian families

husbands and wives share power and their positions in society are equal

habilitation

the process of acquiring the basic life skills needed to function in society

liberation hypothesis

women’s liberation opened up criminal activities to a new generation of women and that there would be an end to the traditional male–female distinctions in crime

Marxist feminism

male dominance reflects a social ideology that is willing to subjugate women, first to capital and second to men

patriarchal families

families that produce daughters whose futures are limited to domestic labor and consumption; the fathers exercise great control over the lives of the girls and young women

play families

also known as pseudo-families: women in prison tend to need more emotional support and create families and members assume the role of spouse, parent, child, sibling, or grandparent for one another

power-control theory

suggests that the presence of power and the absence of control in egalitarian families create conditions conducive to common forms of delinquency for both boys and girls

pseudo-families

also known as play families: women in prison tend to need more emotional support and create families and members assume the role of spouse, parent, child, sibling, or grandparent for one another

radical feminism

the theory that male power and privilege both define all social relations and are the primary cause of all social inequities

socialist feminism

a form of feminist criminology based on the belief that the intersection of social class and gender is the nexus of crime

the mix

defiance exhibited by certain inmates

women’s reformatory

a cottage-style facility where female staff supervise inmates and teach them appropriate domestic skills