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
It is also known as the skinny a method of torture whereby the skin of the victim is gradually removed from then body in a precise fashion so if the individuals survives the initial shocks and avoid critical loss of blood during torture then they will likely die this later due to infection.
Death by Flaying
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 most common physical punishment through the ages, it is common in England during the middle ages as justice for a wide variety of crimes wherein the women plugged in private while men were ripped publicly.
Flagging or Whipping
Used in ancient medieval societies archeological evidence shows that Pharoa’s as the ruler of the ancient
Egypt or the representative they often ordered mutilation and it is according to the law of retaliation or the cutting off or causing injury to a body part of a person so that a body of that person is permanently damaged
detached or disfigure
Mutilation
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
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 that is protected from the further criminal and 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
putting the offender in prison for the purpose of protecting the public against criminal activities
IMPRISONMENT
a conditional release of a prisoner after serving part of his/her sentence in prison for the purpose of
gradually re-introducing him/her to free life under the guidance and supervision of a parole officer.
PAROLE
a disposition whereby defendant after conviction of an offense, the penalty of which does not exceed six years imprisonment, is released subject to the conditions imposed by the releasing court and under the supervision of a probation officer.
PROBATION
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
a center the 25- kilometer perimeter.
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