Age Of Enlightenment Flashcards
it is the century of change, it’s period of recognizing human dignity.
18th century
It is a movement of reformation, period of introduction of certain person, gradually the old philosophy of punishment to amore humane treatment of prisoners with innovation program
18 century
He Fought for individual rights of person and responsible for the abolition of death penalty and torture
William Penn
First leader to prescribe imprisonment as a correctional treatment
William penn
Physician, patriot, signer of the declaration of independence and social reformer
Benjamin rush
Advocated penitentiary as replacement for capital and corporal punishment
Benjamin Rush
It is institution intended to isolate prisoners from society and from one another so that they could reflect on their past misdeeds repent and thus undergo reformation
Penitentiary
French historian and philosopher who analyzed law as an expression of justice
Charles Montesquieu
He believes that harsh
punishment would undermine morality and that appealing to moral sentiments as a better means of preventing
crime.
Charles Montesquieu
His theorized separation of powers of legislative, executive and judiciary
Charles Montesquieu
He is also responsible for the abolition of death penalty and torture as a form of punishment
William penn
He was the most versatile of all philosophers during this period. He believes that fear of shame was a
deterrent to crime.
Voltaire/ Francois Marie Arouet
He fought the legality-sanctioned practice of torture.
Voltaire/ Francois Marie Arouet
He wrote an easy entitled ‘An essay on crimes and punishment’
Cesare Beccaria
Father of classical theory, politician, and Italian philosopher
Cesare Beccaria
The greatest leader in the Reform of English Criminal Law.
Jeremy Bentham
He believes that whatever punishment designed
to negate whatever pleasure or gain the criminal derives from crime; the crime rate would go down
Jeremy Bentham
He invented Panopticon Prison
Jeremy Bentham
- a prison that consist of large circular building containing multi cells around the
periphery.
Panopticon Prison
Is Panopticon Prison built?
No
The father of prison reform
John Howard
The sheriff of Bedfordshire in 1773
John Howard
John Howard is sheriff at?
Bedfordshire in 1773
After his finding on
English prisons, he recommended the following,
- Single cell for sleeping
- Separation of woman
- Separation of youth
- Provision of sanitation facilities
- Abolition of fee system which the jailers obtained money from the prisoners
A follower of Bentham was an able lawyer and the most effective leader in direct and persistent agitation for
reform of the English criminal code
Sir Samuel Romilly