part 5 Flashcards
The study of punishment for crime or of criminal offenders. It includes the study of control and prevention of crime through punishment of criminal offenders.
PENOLOGY
Penology is derived from the Latin word ____ which means____
POENA ; Pain or Suffering.
Penology is otherwise known as
Penal Science
It is actually a division of criminology that deals with prison management and the treatment of offenders and concerned itself with the philosophy and practice of society in its effort to repress criminal activities.
PENOLOGY
it maintains the “doctrine of psychological hedonism” or “free will”. That the individual calculates pleasures and pains in advance of action and regulates his conduct by the result of his calculations.
The Classical School
it maintained that while the classical doctrine is correct in general, it should be modified in certain details. Since children and lunatics cannot calculate the differences of pleasures from pain, they should not be regarded as criminals; hence they should be free from punishment.
The Neo-Classical School
the school that denied individual responsibility and reflected non- punitive reactions to crime and criminality. It adheres that crimes, as any other act, is natural phenomenon. Criminals are considered as sick individuals who need to be treated treatment programs rather than punitive action against them.
The positivist/Italian School
Refers to the manner or practice of managing or controlling places of confinement as in jails or prisons.
PENAL MANAGEMENT
A branch of the Criminal Justice System concerned with the custody, supervision and rehabilitation of criminal offenders.
CORRECTION
deals with jails, prisons, and colonies where a convict is going to serve his sentence.
Institutional Corrections
deals with service of sentence of a convict outside an institution. It is also known as a community-based treatment.
Non - Institutional Corrections
The study and practice of a systematic management of jails or prisons and other institutions concerned with the custody, treatment, and rehabilitation of criminal offenders.
CORRECTIONAL ADMINISTRATION
is the machinery of any government in the control and prevention of crimes and criminality.
Criminal Justice System
Crimes, violence, rebellious acts, and other acts, which are expressly prohibited by the society fall as
forbidden acts
are those that can be beneficial to the welfare of the society such as early traditions and practices, folkways, norms, those that are controlled by social rules, and laws.
Accepted acts
are anything approved by the majority which is believed to be beneficial to the common good. These things include marrying; having children, crop production, growing food, etc…
Encourage acts
has offered the most adequate basic concepts which sharply define, in concise and inconsistent terminology, mature rules in a complete system, logical and firm, tempered with high sense of equity.
Roman law
Oldest Code known to man institutes fines of monetary compensation for bodily damage, as opposed to the later lex talionis (‘eye for an eye) principle of Babylonian law; however, murder, robbery, adultery and rape were capital offenses. Provides the first caste system
Code of Ur- Nammu
a Sumerian code which forbid accepting money or objects “from the hands of a slave” or making loans
Code of Eshunna
a more popular version the Sumerian law which chronicles the rights of citizens, marriages, successions, property rights and penalties.
Code of Lipit-Isthar
credited as the oldest code prescribing savage punishment, based on the principle of Retaliation or “lex taliones” which means an eye for an eye and tooth for a tooth
Code of king Hammurabi
an effort to match a desirable amount of punishment to all possible crimes.
Justinian Code
represented the earliest codification of Roman law incorporated into the Justinian code. It is the formulation of all public and private law of the Romans until the time of Justinian.
The Twelve Tables
It is also a collection of legal principles engraved on metal tablets and set up on the forum.
The Twelve Tables
a harsh code that provides the same punishment for both citizens and the slaves as it incorporate primitive concepts
GREEK CODE OF DRACO
This law repealed Draco’s laws and allowed capital punishment only for a limited number of serious offenses, such as murder or military or political offenses against the state. It also gave the right of representation, of every person to claim redress on behalf of another to whom wrong was being done.
Solon’s Law