Actions and practices, of individuals and institutions, designed to induce comformity with the rules and norms of society.
What is Social Control
100
Law of retaliation the principle the punishment should fit the crime. an eye for an eye.
What is Lex talionis?
100
An institution intended to isolate prisoners from society and from one anotherso that they could reflect on their past misdeeds.
What is a Penitentiary?
100
Punishment inflicted on a person who has infringed on the rights of others and so deserves to be penalized.
What is Retribution?
100
A model of corrections based on the assumption that criminal behavior is caused social, psychological, and biological deficiencies the require treatment.
What is the Medical model?
200
An institution for the incarceration of people convicted of felony crimes.
What is Prison?
200
The practice of transplanting offenders from the community to another region or land.
What is Transportation?
200
A penitentiary system in which each inmate was held in isolation from other inmates, with all activities, including craft work, carried on in their cells.
What is the Pennsylvania system?
200
Punishment of criminals that is intended to be an example to the general public and to discourage offenses by others.
What is General deterence?
200
A model of corrections based on the assumption that reintegrating the offender into the community should be the goal of the criminal justice system.
What is Community corrections?
300
A facility authorized to hold pretrial detainees and people convicted on misdemeanor level crimes.
What is Jails?
300
Punishment inflicted on the offenders body that are intended to inflict pain.
What is Corporal Punishment?
300
A penitentiary system in which inmates were held in isolation at night but worked with ither prisoners during the day under a rule of silence.
What is the Auburn system?
300
The goal of restoring a convicted offender to a constructive place in society through some form of vocational or educational training or therapy.
What is Rehabilitation?
300
A reduction of an inmates prison sentence for good behavior.
What is Good Time?
400
A variety of programs, services, facilities, and organizations responsible for the management of individuals who have been accused or convicted of criminal offenses.
What is Corrections?
400
A school of criminology that views behavior as stemming from free will, that demands responsibility and accountability.
What is Classical School?
400
A system under which inmates labor was sold on a contractual basis to private employers.
What is Contract labor system?
400
Punishment inflicted on criminals to discourage them from committing future crimes.
What is Specific deterence?
400
A period of incarceration with minimum and maximum terms.
What is Indeterminate sentence?
500
One in how many americans are under some form of community supervision.
What is 43?
500
The founder of the Classical School of criminology.
Who is Cesare Beccaria?
500
An approach to criminology based on the assumption that human behavior is a product of biological, economic, and social factors.
What is the Positivist school?
500
Punishment designed to repair the damage done to the victim and community by an offender's criminal act.
What is Restorative Justice?
500
A fixed period of incarceration imposed by a court.