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Inmates. Chapter Six. Offender Types — Career Criminal. Small number of criminals commit disproportionately high number of crimes. Offender Types — Elderly Prisoners. As long-term inmate population grows, so does number of elderly offenders. Corrections. Corrections (continued).
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Inmates Chapter Six
Offender Types—Career Criminal • Small number of criminals commit disproportionately high number of crimes
Offender Types—Elderly Prisoners • As long-term inmate population grows, so does number of elderly offenders
Corrections (continued) • Inmates go in as petty, nonviolent offenders, and come out as serious, violent offenders.
Inmate Society • In his classic book, Asylums, Erving Goffman described prisons as total institutions. • Total institutions: An institutional setting
Inmate Society (continued) • Central to the inmate society of traditional men’s prisons is the convict code. • Convict code:
Inmate Society (continued) Principles of the convict code include:
The Professional Criminal • Also referred to as “White Collar Criminal”
The Drug Criminal • The 1980’s and 1990’s saw the “drug war.”