Quiz 1 Institutional Corrections Flashcards
- the act of reforming offenders by means of institutions.
- It deals with the jail, prison, colony and other confinement unit where a person is going to serve his sentence.
Institutional Correction
the act of reforming offenders by other means outside institutions.
Non - Institutional Correction
pillar of Criminal Justice System as also as a process.
Stand as the fourth pillar of the
components of our criminal justice system that are concern with the custody, provision and are in charge with reforming and rehabilitating offenders.
It is also known as the weakest pillar among the pillars of criminal
justice system because of its failure to reform and rehabilitate offenders.
Correction
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
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
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 suffering. Otherwise known as the “Penal Science”.
Penology
the study of the management of prisons, reformatories and any other confinements units.
Penal Science
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
Are those persons undergoing investigation, awaiting or undergoing trial or those who are awaiting for final
judgement.
Detainees
Refers to the manner or practice of managing or controlling places of confinement.
Penal Management
an instrument of public justice, it involves
pain, produced by the sign, and justified by some value that the suffering is assumed to have
It is also a means of social control is a device to cause people to become cohesive and induced conformity
thus it is necessary to restore moral equilibrium and foregrounds of social utility.
Punishment
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
It is also known as the decapitation or total separation of the head from the body of a person wherein the
ancient Greeks and romans regarded it as the honorable form death.
It is the total separation of the head from the body of a person who commits a crime.
Death by Beheading