Part 1 Flashcards
Refers to the system used by government to maintain social control, prevents crime, enforce the laws, and administer justice.
Criminal Justice System (CJS)
5 Pillars of PCJS
L-LAW ENFORCEMENT
P-PROSECUTION
C-COURT
C-CORRECTION
C - COMMUNITY
states that men have the absolute free will to choose between good and evil, so they are liable for the consequences of their acts.
Classical Theory
What are the important theories in Correction?
Classical Theory
Neo- Classical Theory
Positivist theory
Eclectic theory
ARGUMENTS IN CLASSICAL THEORY
- Unfair
- Unjust
- The nature and definitions of punishment is not individualized.
- It focus on the crime itself, not on the criminal.
states that since insane and minors do not know the consequences of their acts, they must not be liable for the crimes they may committed.
Neo Classical Theory
states that criminals shall be treated like patients in the hospitals, instead of
punishing them.
Positivist theory
is the combination of beneficial
aspects classical, neo-classical and positivist
theories.
Eclectic theory
⚫ It is a term derived from the Latin word “poena” which means pain or punishment/suffering.
⚫Is a division of Criminology and focuses the study of punishment for crime and or of criminal offenders.
⚫ Otherwise known as Penal Science
Penology
• The study and practice of a system management of jails or prisons and other institutions concerned with the custody, treatment, and rehabilitation of criminals, or detainees,
Correctional Administration
• Refers to the manner or practice of managing or controlling places of confinement.
Penal Management
whereby a person will be punished to death effected by burning, boiling in oil, breaking at the wheel, death by flaying and death by
beheading.
Death Penalty
Ancient Forms of Punishment
Death Penalty
Physical torture
Social Degradation
Banishment
rendering physical pain into a person who committed an act in violation of the existing laws which as effected by mutilation, whipping, and
other barbaric forms of inflicting pain.
Physical torture
the purpose of this was to put the offender
into shame or humiliation.
Social Degradation
this is a form of punishment whereby the offender was sent or put away from the place of the commission of the act which was carried out by a prohibition of coming into a specified territory.
Banishment
CONTEMPORARY FORMS OF PUNISHMENT
•imprisonment
• Probation
• Parole
⚫ Fine
⚫ Destierro
putting offenders in a prison for the purpose of protecting the public.
Imprisonment
A whereby the defendant after conviction of an offense is released subjects to the conditions imposed by court and under the supervision of probation officer.
Probation
it is the suspension of sentence of a convict after having served the minimum of the sentence imposed without granting pardon, prescribing the
terms of the suspension.
Parole
an amount given as a compensation for a criminal act.
Fine
the penalty of banishing a person from the place where he
committed a crime prohibiting him to get near or enter within the 25-kilometer
radius.
Destierro
JUSTIFICATIONS OF PUNISHMENT
•Retribution
•Expiation or Atonement
• Deterrence
•Protection
• Reformation
punishment of an offender was carried out in the forms of personal vengeance.
Retribution
it is where punishment is exacted publicly for the purpose of appeasing the social
group.
Expiation or Atonement
It is commonly believed that punishment gives a lesson to the offender; that it shows other what
will happen if they violate the law;
Deterrence
by placing offenders in prison society protected from the further criminal depredation of
criminals.
Protection
society’s interest can be best served by helping the prisoner requiring him to undergo an intensive program of rehabilitation.
Reformation
