Reentry from Prison and Incarceration Effects Flashcards

Vocabulary flashcards covering key concepts from lectures on reentry from prison, legal and social consequences of incarceration, and health impacts.

Civil Death

The near-total removal of a person's legal rights and social citizenship following a criminal conviction.

Disordered Punishment

Punishment via criminal records that is hidden, indefinite, and chaotic, differing from traditional transparent, proportional, and time-bound punishment.

Dirty Data

Incomplete, inaccurate, and difficult-to-challenge criminal records that can lead to denial of opportunities like jobs and housing.

Mortality Paradox

The phenomenon where Black incarcerated individuals have lower mortality rates than Black individuals outside of prison, potentially due to temporary shielding from violence and improved access to healthcare.

Accelerated Aging

The condition where prisoners age faster due to stress, malnutrition, and violence.

Statistical Discrimination

Making assumptions about individuals based on group-level statistics, such as assuming all Black applicants have records if employers can't ask about criminal history.

Isolated Offender Myth

The criminal justice system's assumption of radical individualism, ignoring family ties and relational contexts in punishment.

Crimes of Survival

Criminal activities like theft, drug use, and sex work linked to trauma, poverty, and lack of alternatives, particularly among incarcerated women.

Racial Caste System

A system of racial control where each era in U.S. history involves control, collapse, backlash, and reinvention of a new system, such as mass incarceration replacing Jim Crow.

Ban the Box

Policies that remove the criminal history question from initial job applications, allowing background checks only after conditional job offers.