Chapter 2 Flashcards

1
Q

Who developed the earliest known statements of prohibited behavior?

A

Law of Mesopotamia and the code of hammurabi by King of Babylon’s 1750 BCE

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2
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Lex tationis definition

A

Eye for an eye

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3
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Secular law

A

The law of the civil society as distinguished by the church law

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4
Q

Wergild

A

Blood money. Money compensation for comers

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5
Q

Most common punishment in Europe before 1800s

A

Galley slaves, imprisonment, transportation, corporals punishment, and death

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6
Q

Benefit of clergy

A

The right to be tried in court focused on religion and stuff like dat. Less severe punishment

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7
Q

Who tried to assasinate king Luis?

A

Robert Francois damiens

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8
Q

First house of corrections?

A

Bridewell pallace

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9
Q

52,200 thousands people were “transported” to which states?

A

Virginia and Maryland

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10
Q

72,000 hanged during the reign of ____

A

Henry VIII

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11
Q

Vegabonds were strong up 300-400 at a time by _____

A

Elizabethian period

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12
Q

Crimes punisheable by death swelled from __ in 1688 to __ in 1765 to __ in 1800

A

50, 160, 225

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13
Q

The eve of corrections reform?

A

1770

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14
Q

The enlightenment or the age of reason year and goings on?

A

1700s individualism and liberal ism dominates

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15
Q

Founder of classical criminality? And the guy who made the criminal system in Pennsylvanian?

A

Cesare Beccaria

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16
Q

Jeremy Bentham?

A

Utilitarianism guy

17
Q

John Howard?

A

English reformer who wrote state of prisons and did a lot of correcting on the humanitarian side of things

18
Q

Penitentiary act of 1779?

A

John Howard