Chapter 2 Flashcards
Who developed the earliest known statements of prohibited behavior?
Law of Mesopotamia and the code of hammurabi by King of Babylon’s 1750 BCE
Lex tationis definition
Eye for an eye
Secular law
The law of the civil society as distinguished by the church law
Wergild
Blood money. Money compensation for comers
Most common punishment in Europe before 1800s
Galley slaves, imprisonment, transportation, corporals punishment, and death
Benefit of clergy
The right to be tried in court focused on religion and stuff like dat. Less severe punishment
Who tried to assasinate king Luis?
Robert Francois damiens
First house of corrections?
Bridewell pallace
52,200 thousands people were “transported” to which states?
Virginia and Maryland
72,000 hanged during the reign of ____
Henry VIII
Vegabonds were strong up 300-400 at a time by _____
Elizabethian period
Crimes punisheable by death swelled from __ in 1688 to __ in 1765 to __ in 1800
50, 160, 225
The eve of corrections reform?
1770
The enlightenment or the age of reason year and goings on?
1700s individualism and liberal ism dominates
Founder of classical criminality? And the guy who made the criminal system in Pennsylvanian?
Cesare Beccaria