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- adjudicatory hearing
- a hearing held in a juvenile court to determine whether a juvenile is guilty of the delinquence alleged against him
- aftercare
- supervision after release so they can make an optimal adjustment to community
- butch
- dominant male role in a homosexual relationship
- contraband
- any unauthorized substance
- chivalry
- old fashioned notions about the fair sex, resulting in overlooking female offender
- class neutrality
- the absence of class related factors
- contextual discrimination
- discrimination that is evident in in specific social contexts
- deprivation model
- a model that views the losses experiences by an inmate during incarceration as one of the costs of imprisonment
- detention hearing
- a hearing in which the court decides whether to temporarily hold a juvenile in a secure facility
- dispositional hearing
- a hearing where the juvenile court judge decides the most appropriate placement for a juvenile who has been adjudicated a delinquenct
- eighth amendment
- forbidding excessive bail, excessive fines and cruel and unusual punishments
- femme
- docile female role in a homosexual relationship
- fictive families
- a grouping of unrelated individuals who have assumed the traditional family roles
- fourteenth amendment
- protects against deprivation of life, liberty or property without due process and ensures equal protection of the laws
- habeus corpus
- you have the body, a writ..brings a person before a court to determine the legality of his restraint in custody
- furmann vs georgia
- SCD declaring the death penalty as unconstitutional in 1972
- gregg vs georgia
- SCD superseding formal decision that the death penalty is constitutional if certain conditions were met in 1976
- houses of refuge
- the first type of juvenile correctional facility in the US, goals were discipline, reform and vocational training, protection from corrupting home environments
- importation model
- a model that suggests that the influences prisoners bring into prison affect their imprisonment
- inmate code
- an unwritten but powerful code regulating inmates behavior are functional to both prisoners and guards because they promote order
- institutionalized racism
- racism that is so pervasive the inmates are unaware of its presence
- parens patriae doctrine
- a medieval english doctrine that allows the state to intervene into family raltions when a childs welfare is threatened
- lifer
- prisoner serving a life sentence
- mcklesky vs kemp
- SCD rejected the idea that the death penalty is racially unjust
- multiple marginality
- marginality resulting from several facros such as race, gender and class
- prisonization
- the process by which inmates learn and internalize the customs and culture of prison
- status offense
- an act that would not be a crime if perpretrated by an adult but is because done by a minor
- states evidence
- evidence that an accomplice to a crime voluntarily provides to the prosecutors against other defendents
- stanford vs kentucky
- SCD allowing the execution of murderers who were 17 at time of crime
- treatment technologies
- rehabilitative programs used in correctional institutions for example treatment modalities, skill development, and prerelease programs
- thompson vs oklahoma
- SCD prohibiting the execution of juveniles under age 16 at time of the offense
- uniform crime reports
- a national compilation of crime stats based on info that local and state police agencie provide to the FBI