SOC 170 Midterm ("The Jail")

jail

post-conviction awaiting transport, convicted of misdemeanors, can’t afford bail/no bail awaiting trial

prison

convicted of felony

misdemeanor

sentence to at most a year

felony

sentenced to at least 1 year in prison, capital punishment, life without parole

identity kits

Goffman’s theory of people wearing identity kits

John Irwin

author of The Jail, convicted criminologist

Erving Goffman

Irwin’s teacher, “identity kits” and “total institutions”

William Chambliss

performed the “Saints and Roughnecks” study

rabble

people who are socially offensive (disrepute) and detached from society (detachment)

disrepute

characterized as threatening

detachment

lack of attachment to society

rabble zone/containment

rabble are contained in rabble zones, so they don’t go into non-rabble zones

sweep

cleaning up of a city of all rabble to make the area appear “better”

quantitative

statistical research (numbers)

qualitative

descriptive research (description)

case study

investigating in great detail a particular/specific individual or group

3 elements to non-rabble

control over property, social ties, taking care of business (paying taxes, rent, etc.)

total institutions

every moment is dictated to them (prisons/military)

alienation

division of oneself from personal and social identity due to social ties being broken

How many people are arrested per day?

700

self-disorganization

transition from being free to prisoner

moral enterprise

prisoners judged based on crimes they’ve committed rather than their character

“The process is the punishment”

Malcolm M. Feeley’s idea about how going through the criminal justice system is more harmful than the punishment itself

due process model

right to a fair trial/protects the rights of citizens

crime control model

arrest and throw away the key to suppress crime

weariness

to not trust someone immediately; restrict interactions to the few people they are familiar with

opportunism

high alert of opportunities for personal gain

making do

building up a prison attitude, skills, and knowledge

stratification system

ranking system in the jail

3 main topics prisoners talk about

street life, courts, and prisons (joints)