Review Sheet for Corrections Mid-term
Questions for the midterm will be taken from class discussions, PPTs and Text Chapters 1 &2, 4-8
dating back to the first class through Tues, 2/20/24.
To successfully complete the exam, be sure to know the following:
Chapters 1 & 2 and related class notes and discussions:
- The content of the Sentencing Project Report: One in Five: Ending Racial Inequality in Incarceration
- The distinction between Eastern and Western State Penitentiary
- Detailed information about Eastern State Penitentiary
- The distinction between a penitentiary and a prison
- Detailed information about the Walnut St jail
- The distinction between the separate and silent systems of confinement
- The textbook definition of “corrections”
- The distinction between institutional and community-based corrections
- The FIVE segments of the criminal justice or criminal legal system (CJS/CLS) as identified by the text
- The ROLE of the CJS/CLS as identified by the text
- The distinction between punishment and correction
- The brutalization hypothesis
- The connections between corrections and the law:
Prof’s definition of a “crime”
Prof’s 3 step process that may lead a person into the correctional system
Significance of the Code of Hammurabi
Roman Law
Role of the church in “corrections”
Problematic behavior of the government in relation to “corrections”
- The contributions of the following enlightenment thinkers:
Wm Penn
Jeremy Bentham
Cesare Beccaria
- The distinction between a jail and a prison
- Old Newgate Prison
- The timeline for the opening and closing of early American prisons
- The distinction between the Pennsylvania System and the Auburn System
- How the 13th amendment to the federal constitution relates to correctional practices
Conflict lease system, Chain gangs, Prison farming system
- The distinctions between the medical, reintegration and crime control models of corrections
- The distinction between the Reformatory and Progressive Era of corrections
- The distinction between Southern and Western Penology
- The characteristics of correctional facilities known as “The Big House”
- General definition of mass incarceration
- The definition of mass incarceration used by Endmassincarceration.org
- Current statistics related to the U.S. and world incarceration populations
- Definition of Sentencing Disparity
- Federal Sentencing Guidelines Sentencing Considerations
- Policing as the Gateway to Corrections
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Questions for the midterm will be taken from class discussions, PPTs and Text Chapters 1 &2, 4-8
dating back to the first class through Tues, 2/20/24.
To successfully complete the exam, be sure to know the following:
Chapters 1 & 2 and related class notes and discussions:
- The content of the Sentencing Project Report: One in Five: Ending Racial Inequality in Incarceration
- The distinction between Eastern and Western State Penitentiary
- Detailed information about Eastern State Penitentiary
- The distinction between a penitentiary and a prison
- Detailed information about the Walnut St jail
- The distinction between the separate and silent systems of confinement
- The textbook definition of “corrections”
- The distinction between institutional and community-based corrections
- The FIVE segments of the criminal justice or criminal legal system (CJS/CLS) as identified by the text
- The ROLE of the CJS/CLS as identified by the text
- The distinction between punishment and correction
- The brutalization hypothesis
- The connections between corrections and the law:
Prof’s definition of a “crime”
Prof’s 3 step process that may lead a person into the correctional system
Significance of the Code of Hammurabi
Roman Law
Role of the church in “corrections”
Problematic behavior of the government in relation to “corrections”
- The contributions of the following enlightenment thinkers:
Wm Penn
Jeremy Bentham
Cesare Beccaria
- The distinction between a jail and a prison
- Old Newgate Prison
- The timeline for the opening and closing of early American prisons
- The distinction between the Pennsylvania System and the Auburn System
- How the 13th amendment to the federal constitution relates to correctional practices
Conflict lease system, Chain gangs, Prison farming system
- The distinctions between the medical, reintegration and crime control models of corrections
- The distinction between the Reformatory and Progressive Era of corrections
- The distinction between Southern and Western Penology
- The characteristics of correctional facilities known as “The Big House”
- General definition of mass incarceration
- The definition of mass incarceration used by Endmassincarceration.org
- Current statistics related to the U.S. and world incarceration populations
- Definition of Sentencing Disparity
- Federal Sentencing Guidelines Sentencing Considerations
- Policing as the Gateway to Corrections
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