Test 1 Flashcards
Social control
Control of inmates interactions with the public and everyday life
Ex.) 1. Increase crime
- Better at incarcerating
- Longer sentencing
- Death penalty
4 states with largest prison population
- California
- Texas
- Florida
- New York
Corrections
The programs, services, and facilities for management of individuals who have been convicted of a crime
How does society address violation of laws
- Fines
- Probation
- Prison
- Death penalty
What is prison?
Punishment/ revenge
Torture
Unnecessary punishment
Boiled/ burned people alive, branded, Iron Maiden
Corporal punishment
Hard labor, beating and abuse by prison
Capital punishment
Execution by the state
Outlaw
One who lives outside the means of the law
Bridwell system
Instilled hard work and labor as punishment, prisoners had to pay for facility upkeep, poor people are majority population
Debtor
Someone who doesn’t pay their bills or owes the state money
Hulks
Ships prisoners were sent to Australia on from Europe
Beccaria
Italian thinker, said punishment must fit crime, people commit crimes b/c of free will, prevention of crime more important than punishment, need more humane prisons
John Howard
Father of penitentiary system
Penitentiary act 1779
- Abolished fees while in prison
- Secure and sanitize facilities
- Inspections
- Reform- rehabilitation
Penitentiary
A system where the inmate sits in a cell by themselves and asks God for forgiveness of their crime
1st jail in U.S.
Walnut st jail. Built by quakers and had penitentiary system
Why walnut st opened and closed
Opened because of overcrowding in prisons, closed because people were going insane