Criminology 2, [Company Name]: Prison Management and Incarceration

This Criminology assignment explores the experience of incarceration, prison subculture, roles, argot, power dynamics, and violence within prisons. It also delves into strain, deprivation, and support systems for inmates, including rehabilitation and release strategies. The assignment further examines prison demographics, focusing on health care indicators, recommendations for improvement, and the impact of multiculturalism and diversity. Finally, it presents an essay question analyzing the experiences of individuals preparing for and navigating prison life, along with a focus on women's prisons, referencing relevant literature on Canadian corrections.

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Criminal Law
Prison Management
Student Credentials
3/28/2020

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PART I: THE EXPERIENCE OF NCARCERATION
Prison as a total institution (2 points)
1. Boarding schools: Every possible aspect related for functioning of life is provided in
Boarding schools as well.
2. Orphanages: Children can live, play, eat and do everything in orphanages as per the
budget they are allocated and spend their lives without intrusion from outside until they are
sent to foster homes.
Prison Subculture, Roles and Argot (4 points)
Answer: It is due to lack of many aspects in relation with social skills, deprivation of goods
and services as well as their attitude towards life and behaviour that changes as a part of
growing up in the prisons.
Give an example of a “role” and “argot” that belongs to prison subculture:
Role: it refers to the actual role inmates play as in working as a cook or janitor.
Argot: It refers to pet names that are given to individuals based on their nature or behaviour.
Power and Status in Prison Subculture (2 points)
Low status: Refers to people with less connection or minor crimes or even the ones who get
bullied
High status: It refers to individuals who have the ability to convince people or influence
them or have connections through which they can bring goods in or out or bully people based
on their gang connections and as such.
Violence in Prison (2 points)
Describe 2 strategies that inmates adopt to improve their own personal security while in

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prison:
1 Alliance Strategies
2 Individual Strategy
Strain (2 points)
1 strict policing
2 Discrimination based on race and ethnicity
Deprivation (2 points)
1 Loss of autonomy
2 Lack of freedom of movement
Support, Rehabilitation and Release (2 points)
1 Mental Health treatment
2 Drug treatment
PART II: PRISON DEMOGRAPHICS
Health Care in Prison (5 points)
Identify 2 health indicators that show the poorer health outcomes of prison inmates:
1 morality
2 mental, sexual and physical health
If you were the Correctional Investigator of Canada, what are three recommendations
you would make to improve the health outcomes for men and women who serve a
sentence in prison?
1 Drug treatment
2 mental health assistance
3 improvement of safety within imprisons

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Multiculturalism and Diversity (2 points)
1 These are typical examples of racial profiling where Black or people from different
ethnicity or race are questioned more that the ‘regular’ white people
2 Since discrimination is there in the community, there are less opportunities for them and
this leads them to commit criminal offences.
PART III: ESSSAY QUESTION (12 points)
How to Prepare for Prison
Fuelled by dread, lament, rebellion and reclamation, this personal narrative follows the tales
of three individuals confronting jail as they have a lot to talk about their experiences in there.
This was captured in more than three years, the film goes in the background and into the
workplaces of attorneys and judges that were involved in their as well as other cases of
individuals, and into the homes of standard residents trapped in the line of sight of the law. It
catches their developing mental trouble as they anticipate judgment such as the trauma they
go through or the discrimination they face (TVO, 2019).
Women’s Prisons
Women going through incarceration stay fringe in many investigations of the practices and
impacts of detainment. Looking to see how ladies experience long sentences is beyond the
realm of imagination without getting a handle on the assortment of misuse and misery that
the extraordinary larger part of them has experienced in the network, or without perceiving
their passionate responsibilities what's more, accounts. The jail might be an 'institutional
appearance of gendered weakness and defencelessness', however, similar to men carrying out
exceptionally long punishments, female lifers effectively explore the jail framework, push
back against the requests and interruptions of corrective force, and come to discover
importance and reason in their lives inside. It is significant, regardless, to know that they do

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as such while experiencing a lot of hardships also, degradations that render their time in jail
more intensely excruciating and tricky than their progressively various male partners
(GRIFFITHS, MURDOCH, & ., 2018).
Bibliography

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GRIFFITHS, C. T., MURDOCH, D. J., & . (2018). Canadian Corrections. Nelson Education
Pvt. Ltd.
TVO. (2019). How to Prepare for Prison. Retrieved March 28, 2020, from TVO:
https://www.tvo.org/video/documentaries/how-to-prepare-for-prison