CH 1 POVs of Crime and Punishment Flashcards
what is corrections essentially
- punishes, treats, supervises accused or convicts
- carcereal (prison) and non- carcereal (community)
- protects public
what does a sentence do
- determines where offender goes in Corrections process
remand
detention for the non-convicts
here cuz they may serve some sort of threat
Why do the ways we handle people going into the CJS changes overtime?
- how we describe criminal behaviour changes
- punishments become more severe
- prison structure changes
- the # of offenders coming in changes
some methods used on criminals during the medieval times
- stoning
- burning alive
- hanging
- exile
Difference betw Corporal and Capital Punishments
Corporal = things that caused immense pain and suffering to criminal ex. whipping, stoning
Capital = things to then cause death to criminal ex. burning alive, hanging, various torture methods like cat w 9 tails whip
who ran prisoons back in the day
churches
What was Galley Slavery
picking the poor off teh streets, deem them as prisoners, use them as slaves
Transportation back in the day
transporting those who r exiled onto other islands on boats to then do hard labour
England’s Bloody Code
if u commit crime = you die
Who brought Corrections ideas to Canada
England DUH COLONIZEEEERRS
what is a Punishment
- consequence for breaking the law
explain Classical POV of Crime and its downfalls
- criminal behaviour occurs cuz ppl have free will to WANT to do crime
- punishment shud be swift, certain and proportionate to crime
- punishing proportionately = deterring
- punishment NOT revenge
- does not take into account external reasons for crime ex. poverty, race, sexism
explain Positivist POV and its downfalls
- looks at how Offenders are different from non-offenders and that we need to focus on rehabing them
- ways to rehab them shud revolve around their circumstances
- doesnt take into account the offenders that offend do to their free will of doing so
explain the Critical Radical POV and its downfalls
- crimes happen cuz the rich are exploiting the poor so there are criminials that revolt against them
- rich are the reasons as to why there is homelessness
- rich ppl are disgustin fr
- doesnt take into account victims or the crime impacts on communites
