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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)
