Regardless of the Type, Correctional Institutions Have All of the Following

question 37

Multiple Choice

Regardless of the type, correctional institutions have all of the following EXCEPT:

• A) an elaborate informal social organization
• B) a variety of inmate social roles
• C) a simplistic social organization
• D) the inmate culture includes a complex of norms that indicate how inmates should relate to one another

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Definitions:

Empirical Evidence

Information obtained through observation or experimentation that serves as the basis for knowledge or justification.

Protective Strategy

A method or approach designed to safeguard or defend against potential threats, dangers, or undesirable outcomes.

Denial

A defense mechanism in which confrontation with a personal problem or with reality is avoided by denying the existence of the problem or reality.

Repression

A defense mechanism where undesirable thoughts, feelings, or urges are unconsciously pushed out of conscious awareness.