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History of Punishment
Evidence-Based Practice
Theory 1
Theory 2
Theory 3
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The earliest known written code of punishment
What is The Code of Hammurabi
100
Which school of thought stresses the importance of science to study human behavior?
What is the Positivist School.
100
Which theory promotes wide use of prison and terrible conditions as appropriate punishment?
What is retribution.
100
Which theory suggests we should remove discretion and utilize determinate sentencing and sentencing guidelines?
What is retribution/just deserts.
100
Which theory aims to physically prevent the commission of a crime?
What is Incapacitation
200
The executive of Robert Francois Damiens in the town square is an example of this.
What is General Deterrence
200
What is one of the two sources of agreement reality?
What is tradition OR authority.
200
Which theory of punishment is non-utilitarian?
What is Retribution/Just Deserts.
200
Which theory of punishment focuses on the victim and reducing the harm that has been committed?
What is retribution.
200
Which theory posits more punishment results in less crime.
What is deterrence.
300
Which penitentiary model included the contract labor system?
What is The New York System.
300
What type of evidence is derived from experiment
What is empirical.
300
Crime reduction accomplished through locking up a relatively small number of people who commit a high proportion of crimes.
What is selective incapacitation.
300
If individuals perceive punishment to be certain and/or severe are less involved in crime, this would be an example of this type of deterrence.
What is perceptual deterrence.
300
Punishing Peter to deter Paul.
What is general deterrence.
400
Who is known as the Father of Criminology?
Who is Cesare Lombroso.
400
What is another name for an intervention for which there is consistent scientific evidence showing that it improves outcomes?
What is evidence-based practice.
400
What is the amount of crime that is saved as a result of an offender being physically unable to commit a crime?
What is the incapacitation effect.
400
Which study found the prison environment leads good people to brutalize one another?
What is Stanford Prison Experiment.
400
Which study highlighted the challenges of determining whether or not someone has been rehabilitated?
What is Rosenhans, Being Sane in Insane Places.
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What is an important characteristic of punishment throughout history?
What is it was not administered equally to all classes or groups of people.
500
How do we get evidence that something is effective?
What is outsider knowledge.
500
Type of deterrence study where we compare crime rates before a policy change to crime rates after a policy change.
What is interrupted time series design.
500
Which component of deterrence is most important in deterring crime?
What is certainty.
500
Which theory ultimately guided sentencing efforts in the 1970s after support for rehabiliation declined?
What is retribution.