Punishment
Death by Fire
Durkheim
Fun with Theory
Due Process
100
This form of punishment focuses on preventing crime through the threat of punishment.
What is deterrence?
100
This governor said that Todd Cameron Willingham was a "bad man."
Who is Rick Perry?
100
Durkeim wrote Division of Labor in this century.
What is the 19th century?
100
This theorist believed that in their natural state people are in war with each other, but they can be united in peace if they fear the wrath of the same hegemon or leader.
Who is Hobbes?
100
This amendment provides a right to a jury trial.
What is the Sixth Amendment?
200
This form of punishment centers on what is deserved, or just desserts.
What is retribution?
200
This is the name of the appeal in which the prisoner indicates that the prison warden has him/her in prison erroneously.
What is habeas corpus?
200
This is the notion that people are united by their mutual shared values.
What is mechanical solidarity?
200
This theorist explains that the media socially constructs crime.
Who is Scheingold? OR Who is Zatz?
200
This is the other perspective besides due process outlined by Packer.
What is Crime Control?
300
This form of punishment removes the offender or takes away his her capacity to commit crime.
What is incapacitation?
300
This is the name of what occurs when a fire goes from being in one place to taking over a whole structure suddenly.
What is flashover?
300
We know what a crime is by observing this in a society.
What is punishment?
300
This theorist believes that the death penalty is not as much of a deterrent as life imprisonment.
Who is Beccaria?
300
According to Packer, the due process relies on the presumption of what?
What is the presumption of innocence?
400
This form of punishment involves restoring the harm done to society from the crime.
What is restorative justice?
400
This is the town in which the alleged Willingham arson took place.
What is Corsicana, Texas?
400
This is the notion that people are united by their differences in knowledge and function.
What is organic solidarity?
400
Zatz refers to this as occurring when a real issue is blown out of proportion by the press, creating fear.
What is moral panic?
400
This amendment incorporated the Bill of Rights to the states, including due process.
What is the Fourteenth Amendment?
500
This refers to the notion that the punishment should be commensurate with the crime.
What is proportionality?
500
This is the government agency in Texas who can grant Willingham a posthumous pardon.
What is the parole board?
500
Evolution from primitive to complex societies is dependent on these two factors.
What are moral density and population density?
500
These are the three elements needed to ensure that criminal justice can deter crime, according to Beccaria.
What are swiftness, certainty and severity.
500
The due process and crime control perspectives have these in common.
What are 1) that the function of dealing with the crime should be separate from the function of dealing with the criminal; 2) that there are limits to the government power to investigate and 3) that the accused should get "their day in court"?
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