Corrections- Officer Exam 1
1.Corrections: The institutions and methods that society uses to
correct, control, and change the behavior of convicted offenders.
2.Blameworthy: The law defines that a person is criminally liable for
his or her behavior.
3.Just deserts: Punishment that is commensurate with the
seriousness of the offense or the harm done.
4.Retribution: Something given or demanded as repayment for
wrongdoing
-"getting even" for violating the social contract on which the law is based
5.General deterent effect: The idea that punishing one person for his
or her criminal acts will discourage others from committing similar
acts.
6.Specific deterrence: The idea that an individual offender will decide
against repeating an offense after experiencing the painfulness of
punishment for that offense.
7.Incapacitation: Isolating offenders to protect society.
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, 8.Selective incapacitation: Identifying high-rate offenders and providing
for their long-term incarceration.
9.Rehabilitation: Changing an offenders character, attitudes, or behavior
patterns so as to diminish his or her criminal propensities.
10.Evidence-based programs: This approach is an analysis of
programs with scientifically approved methods to discover what
works with which offenders.
11.Restorative justice: Making amends to the victim or to society for
the harm resulting from a criminal offense.
12.Equity goal of punishment: That offenders usually gain from criminal
violations makes it seem just and right that they repay society and
victims for losses, expenses, and changes that result from their crimes.
13.Code of Hammurabi: Law code issued during the reign of
Hammurabi of Babylon.
-The law of lex talionis makes its appearance in this code, one of the firs
compre- hensive views of the law.
14.Monastic confinement: Prisons established by the Church in the
Middle Ages for those laity involved in offensive acts, such as incest and
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1.Corrections: The institutions and methods that society uses to
correct, control, and change the behavior of convicted offenders.
2.Blameworthy: The law defines that a person is criminally liable for
his or her behavior.
3.Just deserts: Punishment that is commensurate with the
seriousness of the offense or the harm done.
4.Retribution: Something given or demanded as repayment for
wrongdoing
-"getting even" for violating the social contract on which the law is based
5.General deterent effect: The idea that punishing one person for his
or her criminal acts will discourage others from committing similar
acts.
6.Specific deterrence: The idea that an individual offender will decide
against repeating an offense after experiencing the painfulness of
punishment for that offense.
7.Incapacitation: Isolating offenders to protect society.
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, 8.Selective incapacitation: Identifying high-rate offenders and providing
for their long-term incarceration.
9.Rehabilitation: Changing an offenders character, attitudes, or behavior
patterns so as to diminish his or her criminal propensities.
10.Evidence-based programs: This approach is an analysis of
programs with scientifically approved methods to discover what
works with which offenders.
11.Restorative justice: Making amends to the victim or to society for
the harm resulting from a criminal offense.
12.Equity goal of punishment: That offenders usually gain from criminal
violations makes it seem just and right that they repay society and
victims for losses, expenses, and changes that result from their crimes.
13.Code of Hammurabi: Law code issued during the reign of
Hammurabi of Babylon.
-The law of lex talionis makes its appearance in this code, one of the firs
compre- hensive views of the law.
14.Monastic confinement: Prisons established by the Church in the
Middle Ages for those laity involved in offensive acts, such as incest and
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