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RIOT!

RIOT!. Structured activities are required How the riot spread That is punishment?. Lockdown . In prison, everyone is punished for a riot, but most are innocent Learning behavior through Other things that could be taken away:. Factors that contribute to violence. Hierarchy of power

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RIOT!

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  1. RIOT! • Structured activities are required • How the riot spread • That is punishment?

  2. Lockdown • In prison, everyone is punished for a riot, but most are innocent • Learning behavior through • Other things that could be taken away:

  3. Factors that contribute to violence • Hierarchy of power • Staff styles • Cost control • Staff not doing their jobs • Inmate resources

  4. Factors that contribute to violence • Physical design • Overcrowding • Prisoner • Drugs • Racism

  5. Factors that contribute to violence • Gangs • Prisoner-on-Prisoner theft • Lack of consistence or stability for the inmates • “The Pains of Imprisonment”

  6. Women in Prison • Constitute 6.6% of entire US prison population • Prisons are smaller, with looser security and less structured relationships • Underground economy less well-developed • Less committed to inmate code • Many women’s prisons have outward appearance of a college campus • Women are less likely to be sentenced for violent offenses and they receive shorter sentences than men • Typically young, minority group members, unmarried, and undereducated

  7. Characteristics of Female Inmates in State Prisons

  8. Women in Prison • Female prisoners tend to form pseudo-families • Female prisons less violent, less involved in gang activity, and less racial tension • Higher levels of mistrust among women • Males stress autonomy, self-sufficiency, and ability to cope with one’s own problems • Differences between male and female subcultures ascribed to nurturing, maternal qualities of women

  9. Women in Prison • Sexual misconduct • States have enacted statutes prohibiting sexual misconduct with correctional clients • Educational and vocational training • Gender stereotypes shape vocational programs • Medical services • Lack proper medical services, but women tend to have more serious health problems • Mothers and their children • Over 65% of female inmates have children

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