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Offender Types in Correctional Institutions

Dive into the world of inmates and explore the disparities in criminal behavior among different offender types. From career criminals to elderly prisoners, discover how corrections systems play a role in shaping individuals during incarceration and beyond. Learn about the convict code, prisonization, violence, and the emergence of professional criminals like "White Collar Criminals" and "Drug Criminals" in the context of the infamous "drug war." Unravel the dynamics of inmate society as depicted by Erving Goffman in his book "Asylums."

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Offender Types in Correctional Institutions

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  1. Inmates Chapter Six

  2. Offender Types—Career Criminal • Small number of criminals commit disproportionately high number of crimes

  3. Offender Types—Elderly Prisoners • As long-term inmate population grows, so does number of elderly offenders

  4. Corrections

  5. Corrections (continued) • Inmates go in as petty, nonviolent offenders, and come out as serious, violent offenders.

  6. Inmate Society • In his classic book, Asylums, Erving Goffman described prisons as total institutions. • Total institutions: An institutional setting

  7. Inmate Society (continued) • Central to the inmate society of traditional men’s prisons is the convict code. • Convict code:

  8. Inmate Society (continued) Principles of the convict code include:

  9. Prisonization

  10. Violence and Victimization

  11. The Professional Criminal • Also referred to as “White Collar Criminal”

  12. The Drug Criminal • The 1980’s and 1990’s saw the “drug war.”

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