SOC209H5 Study Guide - Final Guide: Racial Profiling, Offender Profiling, Community Policing
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Past exam quesions: *describe what gofman meant by total insituions". Prisons are total insituions, meaning all aspects of life are conducted in the same place and the aciviies of a group of persons with similar status (inmates) are ightly scheduled and controlled by an administraive hierarchy. Total insituions: central authority, no privacy, no individuality, ime and space controlled, dress regulated, goals of the insituion, human aciviies curtailed. This regimen may prevent inmates from developing the skills to funcion independently once released into the community. Prisons are not as total" as gofman claims because some insituions are more total" than others. Varying in terms of ailiaion (federal, provincial, or territorial), security classiicaion, size, management style, inmate characterisics, and other factors that afect the dynamics of insituional life are described as a coninuum of correcional insituions. Challenges: promoing community noions of harm, providing vicim compensaion, implemening selecive targeing, establishing public accountability. Be sure to discuss the relaionship between police and crime rates.
