Incarceration Vocabulary

Vocabulary sheet: Incarceration & social inequality, No Tomorrow

Know these terms: look them up if you need to and be able to use them in a conversation/ sentence in the context of this article/topic. There will be a quiz.

Incarceration:

Carceral:

Incapacitation:

Rehabilitatation:

Empirical:

Normative:

Cohort:

Quintile

Cumulative:

Compounded:

Intergenerational

Ethnographer:

Exacerbates:

Ameliorating:

Asymmetry:

Ubiquity:

Socioeconomically:

Burgeoning:

(Social) Marginality/ marginal:

Recidivism:

Confers:

Stigma:

Inequality:

invisible inequality

class inequality

Penal system:

(social) outcasts:

(social) mobility:

Institutionalized:

Mainstream:

Demographic:

Disparities:

Jim Crow

Civil Rights (era):

Disproportionate

Disenfranchised

Liability

Cognitive ability

Implicated

Delinquency

Rehabilitation

Capital punishment

Deterrence

Exonerated

Conviction

Retribution

Latino/ Hispanic

Prosecution/ prosecutor

Defendant