Deck 12: Familycommunity Issues in Correctionscorrectional Psychology

Question 1

Research suggests that male COs evaluate female COs' job performances more positively than male COs evaluating other male COs.

Answer 1

False

Question 2

Women as correctional officers COs)have historically been subjected to sexual jokes or teasing insults personal comments rumors of sexual inappropriateness with fellow staff or inmates or sexual relations with staff or inmates.

Answer 2

True

Question 3

How are pseudofamilies defined and what needs are met by assuming these roles?

Answer 3

Pseudofamilies also known as kinship systems "play" families surrogate families and dyads are family-like units created within the prison system by inmates in order to meet their needs for emotional intimacy and affection.Additionally the families are often created to be the emotional and economical support that the inmate is lacking because female inmates are often incarcerated further from home than male inmates and the families can be created for protection in the prison environment.Some researchers have found that inmates more newly incarcerated are more likely to create these types of families suggesting that they may play an important role in adjusting to prison life.

Question 4

Discuss the potential negative effects suffered by the children of incarcerated mothers.

Question 5

Females that form pseudofamily ties will often play stereotypical roles within the relationship such as females playing a masculine role in the relationship.

Question 6

Programs were developed in the 1980s in order to encourage and support motherechild contact while the mother was incarcerated.

Question 7

The majority of intellectually disabled offenders are female.

Question 8

Sex offenders never become victims in their communities when they are required to register after conviction for their offense.

Question 9

The stress that correctional officers experience on a day-to-day basis is known as episodic stress.

Question 10

What type of therapy has proven most effective in the treatment of sex offenders?

Question 11

Society tends to view chemical castration as reducing the risk of sex offenders.