European Background
Reformers & Ideas
Prison History
Incarceration Trends
Prison Systems & Classification
100

This was used historically for confinement long before prison became a major criminal punishment.

hat is institutional confinement?

100

This Italian reformer wrote On Crimes and Punishments in 1764.

Answer: Who is Cesare Beccaria?

100

This prison design was a walled prison with large cell blocks and tiers of one- or two-man cells.

What is the big house?

100

From 1925 until about this year, the incarceration rate remained fairly steady.

What is 1972?

100

Congress passed this act in 1891, creating the first federal prisons.

What is the Three Prisons Act?

200

This type of institution, such as the London Bridewell, helped shape the modern U.S. prison.

What is a workhouse?

200

According to Beccaria, punishment should be certain and this.

What is swift?

200

The big house often exploited inmates through this connection.

What are links to the free market or inmate labor tied to the free market?

200

From 1972 until this year, the incarceration rate rose every year.

What is 2008?

200

These were the first three federal prison locations established under that act.

What are Leavenworth, Atlanta, and McNeil Island?

300

One of the first workhouses opened in London during this decade.

What is the 1550s?


300

Beccaria argued that the punishment should fit the crime; this means the punishment’s severity should match this.

What is the severity of the harm caused by the crime?

300

This theory of corrections, popular in the 1940s and 1950s, viewed crime as a symptom of personal illness.

What is the medical model?

300

In this year, the incarceration rate decreased for the first time since the early 1970s.

What is 2009?

300

This federal agency was created in 1930 and became a source of innovation and professionalization.

What is the Bureau of Prisons (BOP)?

400

In Europe, confinement did not become a major punishment for criminals until this century.

What is the 1600s?

400

This reformer wrote The State of the Prisons in 1777 and pushed for prison reform.

Who is John Howard?


400

During the 1960s and 1970s, the fairness and effectiveness of this prison approach came under challenge.

What is coerced prison rehabilitation programming?

400

The incarceration rate decreased each year from 2009 through this year.

What is 2017?

400

This type of facility assesses newly sentenced offenders’ security risks and needs before permanent placement.

What is a classification facility?

500

Before large-scale confinement, Europe commonly relied on these kinds of punishments instead of imprisonment.

What are other physical or public punishments for offenders?

500

This reformer is associated with correctional reform initiatives during the 1700s and 1800s along with Beccaria and Howard.

Who is Jeremy Bentham?

500

As treatment-program control mechanisms faded or became illegal, this type of prison emerged.

What is the contemporary violent prison?

500

This phrase is used in the chapter to describe the dramatic rise in imprisonment in the United States.

What is the incarceration boom?

500

These are the three simplest security level categories for men’s prisons.

What are maximum, medium, and minimum?