Part 3 Flashcards
It is a century of change
18th century
He fought for religious freedom and individuals right
WILLIAM PENN
He is the first leader to prescribe imprisonment as correctional
treatment for major offenders.
WILLIAM PENN
He is also responsible for the abolition of death penalty and torture as a form of punishment.
WILLIAM PENN
Advocated the penitentiary as replacement for capital and
corporal punishment.
BENJAMIN RUSH
An 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. He believe that harsh punishment would undermine morality and that appealing to moral sentiments as a better means of preventing crime.
CHARLES MONTESQUIEU
He was the most versatile of all philosophers during this period. He believes that fear of shame was a deterrent to crime. He fought the legality –sanctioned practice of torture
VOLTAIRE
He wrote an easy entitled “an Essay on crimes and Punishment,” the most exiting essay on law during this century. It presented the humanistic goal of law.
CESARE BECCARIA
The greatest leader in the Reform of English Criminal Law. 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
a prison that consist of a large circular building containing multi cells around the periphery. It was never built
PANOPTICON PRISON
a type of prison conceived by Bentham which would consist of large circular building of case irons and glass containing multi- tiered cells round the periphery
PANOPTICON PRISON
The sheriff of Bedforshire in 1773, who devoted his life and fortune
to prison reform
JOHN HOWARD
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. He pressed for construction of
the first modern English prison, Millbank , in 1816.
SIR SAMUEL ROMILLY
Was the leader in the English
legislature for reform of the criminal code, pushing through programs devised by Bentham, Romilly , and others. He established the Irish constabulary, called the “PEELERS” after the founder.
SIR ROBERT PEEL