SOC311H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: The Marshall Project, Habilitation, Class Discrimination
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How interaction with the legal system has long lasting affects/consequences
What is prisoner re-entry?
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The process of leaving prison and returning to society
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Petersilia - All activities and programming conducted to prepare ex convicts to
return safely to the community
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Turner - 3 phase process. Begins when someone is admitted to prison,
continues as they prepare for release, and includes the actual release
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Gottschalk - the term suggests that ex-offenders are being returned to a level of
habilitation, integration, and participation that they formerly enjoyed, yet many
former offenders were never involved in the integration of society to begin with
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Acknowledge that it is a process
Why study prisoner re-entry
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93% of all prisoners are eventually released, it is something that is happening all
of the time
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Approx. 68% of those released recidivate within 3 years
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US stats: 600,000 individuals re-entering society, more than 8 million under
state control/government supervision
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Canadian stats: 85,170 released from jail/prison, 137,471 released from remand
custody, 20,506 other releases
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A lot of people getting out of jail, but we don’t do a good job of making sure
that they don’t go back
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Much more cost effective to make sure they stay out and develop good
programming
Terminology and the importance of language: Inmate, prisoner, other
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Nomenclatures are important and exist to clarify the world around us
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The marshall project - how to refer to people behind bars
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200 responses
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38% preferred incarcerated person, 23% preferred prisoner, 10%
preferred inmate
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30% selected other (people in prison, man or women, persons name)
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Inmate: used to just mean that you occupied a house, now means that you're in
Intro -January 10 -Week 1
Tuesday, January 8, 2019
11:09 AM