Stresses and Challenges Facing Inmate Families, Especially

¶ … stresses and challenges facing inmate families, especially children? Children of imprisoned parents suffer the most. Children whose parents are imprisoned face adverse impacts. Criminal justice system focuses more on the individual guilt than the adversities that are faced by the children. It is important that the criminal justice system should keep in mind the effects that are seen in the children during their parents' imprisonment, release as well as trails and arrest systems.

One of the main changes that are faced by the children includes a great change in the attitudes of the society as the children are treated in al ill manner. Being on an outside world, as compared to the world behind bars, the children are treated as inmate facing much harsher conditions created by the societies. When parents are imprisoned, children of the family, no matter how young or how old have to accept the responsibility of their households and the family members.

Relationships with the parents suffer as the children take on the responsibility to support themselves and their siblings financially. Because of imprisonment, children may be forced to change the schools. In addition, here it is seen that these effects are overseen by the criminal system. It is important that when families are seen to be disturbed based on the parental imprisonment; criminal justice systems must make arrangements for the children of such parents as well (Tewksbury, and Dabney, 2008, p. 44). 2.

What is meant by the concept that prison rules and their enforcement is gendered? Is this a logical position? Gendered rules in the prison means that the rules being followed in the prisons are gender biased. There are many prisons in U.S. where women are being detained in prisons that are made for men. It has been reported that the conditions provided in the male detention systems are not in accordance to the female requirements.

The criminal justice systems have been already seen to be more male oriented and when the females are sent to the prisons that are basically male penitentiaries, women do not express acceptance to such male oriented system. Guards in the male prison centers are males and female prisoners do not have the emotional and physical strength to deal with the male guards. The position that has been given by the author I logical and there is no doubt about the fact that sending females in the male prisons is unjust.

When females are sent to the male prisons, a number of vocal offenses are made and there is no doubt about the fact that there are many kinds of physical threats faced by the female inmates (Tartaro, and Lester, 2010, p. 55). 3. Should the author's concept of prizonisation due to visitation impact prison rules and procedures? How so? It is seen that majority of the people who visit the inmates line up in the corridors hours before the beginning of the visiting hours.

The people who visit is then are allowed to enter the visiting rooms one by one. There are a group of procedures that are followed while the visitors are allowed to go in. computer-based identification is done based on which the databases are checked for the actual family members and friends who have been visiting the inmates. Prizonisation is the concept that highlights an increased socialization of visiting inmates with the prison culture.

The rates and the speeds of prizonisation depend on the ties that the person has with an outside world. Some of the main indicators of an increased prizonisation with the prison culture include an increased understanding of the culture of the prison, use of prison specific language, being more aware and learned about the procedures of prison, changes in the behavior and dressing style and last but not the least is an increased understanding of the roles and authorities inside the prison.

The concept of prizonisation does not impact the rules that are being followed in the prisons (Carlson, and Garrett, 2008, p. 70). 4. What is the unique nature of conduct norm violations and violence in juvenile institutions? Juvenile prison systems are one of those that have been highlighted as the most troubled prisons. Some of the most well-known misconducts are seen to be conducted in the juvenile prisons. Discretion with the juveniles has been seen since the level of arrest until imprisonment.

Increased discretion has been seen in the juvenile prison systems and higher authorities have been taking serious notice of the discretion. One of the main factors that have been seen in a great increase in misconduct in juvenile prisons is the decision systems of the guards. The reports have shown that some of the main categories of prisoners that are considered responsible for a misconduct in the juvenile prisons. These include charge type and race, and seriousness of the crime committed.

The prisoners higher in anger and irritability scores, along with increase violence experiences and inmate violence, have been reported to show higher misconducts. Rape, violence, and thefts are some of the common kinds of misconducts in the juvenile prisons (Sweeney, 2010, p. 38). 5. What are the advantages and disadvantages of each of the three methods of transferring juveniles to the adult court system? Three kinds of juvenile transfers are generally known. The first kind includes judicial waiver. The courts can transfer the juveniles to the adult court systems after hearings.

Disadvantage in this case is that the criminal levels of the juveniles are not taken into consideration. Second is the presumptive waiver. The advantage of presumptive waiver is that the transfer to the adult justice system is held until the juvenile can show that he or she is ready to undergo juvenile rehabilitation. Thereby the juveniles who have committed serious felonies are the ones that are to be transferred to the adult justice systems.

Third kind is legislative waiver or statutory exclusion in which only selected offenders are sent to adult justice systems. One of these methods that can be considered as being more advantageous is legislative waiver in which the criminal levels are higher, chronic, and extreme (Carlson, and Garrett, 2008, p. 76). 6. What would be most effective in the classification of older inmates to impact rehabilitation and/or safety? There are.