Corrections: The Essentials
Second Edition
Learning Objectives
- Understand the differences between types of prisons
- Know what factors affect the operation of prisons
- Be able to explain what prisonization, mortification, importation, pains of imprisonment, and mature coping are and how they influence inmate behavior
- Explain what prison gangs are and why they exist in prisons
- Know the reasons why violence, riots, and sexual assaults occur in prisons and some strategies for their reduction
- Understand why care for aging and physically and mentally ill inmates in prisons has become such an issue
- Recognize the need to respect the needs of LGBTI (lesbian, gay, bi, transgender, and intersex) inmates