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Society's effort to punish and treat those who break
the law and thereby protect the public
Corrections
-Programs, services, and facilities that deal with
offenders after entering CJ system
Institutional corrections incarceration in jails and prisons
post-incarceration programs, including probation and
parole.
-the term corrections assumes system can transform
offenders into law-abiding citizens
community corrections -not a universally held belief
-corrections philosophy has moved from punishment
orientation t rehabilitation and back again
-Criminals must pay for crimes and serve as deterrent
to others (punishment philosophy)
-many different and cruel forms of confinement used
-plague towns were communities designed to confine
Early form of confinement individuals
-galley slavery used offenders as slave labors on
ships and rowing
, -developed in the 16th century by England and
Holland
-workhouses held a mixture of jobless vagrants,
debtors, and sometimes serious criminals
The workhouse -humiliating and painful experience
-those sentences were stripped possessions and
segregated by gender
-individuals forced to work, until debt paid off
-popular in Europe and used widely in England
was the export of criminals to other lands
-popular due to growing opposition of death penalty
Transportation -by 1776 many British criminals sold into indentured
servitude in America
-life in penal colonies were brutal
-abandoned ships reconfigured as enormous holding
blocks in which offenders were chained
-practice lasted 15 years
Hulks -began after America revolution when transportation
was no longer an option
-ended with resumption of transportation to Australia
colony
-before development of prisons in the U.S., most local
jail facilities were ordinarily where suspects awaited
trial.
-all prisoners confined together, regardless of crime
colonial jails
-Local jails were used as holding cells for thieves,
doctors, and murders
-many confined to jail were debtors, if convicted
often used as forced labor.
-Quaker pressure resulted in Walnut street jail in
Philadelphia opened a special wing in 1790
Walnut State prison -first public institution to use imprisonment as the
(penitentiary) primary method of reforming
-considered by someone to be first penitentiary
-emphasized solitude but failed due to overcrowding
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Terms in this set (51)
Society's effort to punish and treat those who break
the law and thereby protect the public
Corrections
-Programs, services, and facilities that deal with
offenders after entering CJ system
Institutional corrections incarceration in jails and prisons
post-incarceration programs, including probation and
parole.
-the term corrections assumes system can transform
offenders into law-abiding citizens
community corrections -not a universally held belief
-corrections philosophy has moved from punishment
orientation t rehabilitation and back again
-Criminals must pay for crimes and serve as deterrent
to others (punishment philosophy)
-many different and cruel forms of confinement used
-plague towns were communities designed to confine
Early form of confinement individuals
-galley slavery used offenders as slave labors on
ships and rowing
, -developed in the 16th century by England and
Holland
-workhouses held a mixture of jobless vagrants,
debtors, and sometimes serious criminals
The workhouse -humiliating and painful experience
-those sentences were stripped possessions and
segregated by gender
-individuals forced to work, until debt paid off
-popular in Europe and used widely in England
was the export of criminals to other lands
-popular due to growing opposition of death penalty
Transportation -by 1776 many British criminals sold into indentured
servitude in America
-life in penal colonies were brutal
-abandoned ships reconfigured as enormous holding
blocks in which offenders were chained
-practice lasted 15 years
Hulks -began after America revolution when transportation
was no longer an option
-ended with resumption of transportation to Australia
colony
-before development of prisons in the U.S., most local
jail facilities were ordinarily where suspects awaited
trial.
-all prisoners confined together, regardless of crime
colonial jails
-Local jails were used as holding cells for thieves,
doctors, and murders
-many confined to jail were debtors, if convicted
often used as forced labor.
-Quaker pressure resulted in Walnut street jail in
Philadelphia opened a special wing in 1790
Walnut State prison -first public institution to use imprisonment as the
(penitentiary) primary method of reforming
-considered by someone to be first penitentiary
-emphasized solitude but failed due to overcrowding
