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Problems with Corrections 1
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Criminology
Undergraduate 2
03/21/2010

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Folkways
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common behaviors that guide society
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Mores
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Rules that make society better
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Laws
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Written down laws agreed upon by society
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The continum of behavior
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whether in succession or not
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Retaliation
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An act designed to repay (as an injury) in kind, or to return  like for like, especially to get revenge
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Blood feud
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An often-prolonged series of retaliatory, vengeful,or hostile acts or exchange of such acts
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Free Will
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You can do as you please, you make your own decisions in life, not destiny
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wergild
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The european word meaning "lex salica" (the custom of atonement for wrongs against a victim by payment to appease the vitim's family)
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Friedensgeld
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administration of punishment became the responsibility of the king
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Lex talionis
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The act of repaying in kind, such as " an eye for an eye"
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Corporal punishment
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Any physical pain inflicted short of death; common methods include crucifixion, whipping, torture, mutilation, branding, and caning
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Age of enlightenment
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A philosophic movement of the 18th century marked by a rejection of traditional social, religious, and political ideas and an emphasis on rationalism
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An essay of crimes and punishment
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Written by Cesar Beccaria, was first to transition the thinking from punishment to corrections for offenders
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utilitarianism
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the idea that the moral worth of an action is determined solely by its utility in providing happiness or pleasure as summed among all sentient beings
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Hedonistic Calculus
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jeremy bentham's argument that the main objective of an intelligent person is to maximize pleasure while minimizing pain; it was believed that an individual's behavior could be influenced in a scientific manner.
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Walnut street jail
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First penitentiary created in philadelphia by the quakers
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The french humanists
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Montesquie and voltaire challenged the "elite notions of law", human flaws, punishment moderated as much as possible.
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Cesare baccaria
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Wrote "an essay on crimes and punishment"(1764) Beccaria's argument was punishments should serve the greatest good for the greatest #of people, crime is an injury to society
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Jeremy Benthem
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"hedonistic calculus" to reform a man, we must maximize pleasure over pain as much as possible. Inprisonment should stress discipline not pain.
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William Penn
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Prior to penn's arrival, american colonies corporal and capital punishment dominated (english model) Penn's quakers beliefs brought the concept of more humanitarian treatment that laid the foundation for the penitentiary
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Pennsylvania system
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the system of prison discipline using isolation or solitary confinement with both a work requirement and moral and religious instruction
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auburn system
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Prison model consisting of small individual cells, large work areas for group labor, and enforced silence
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the reformatory era
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An instituion for younger offenders that requires education and training, conditional release, and potential revocation of parole
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Elmira Prison
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Was a hybrid of pennsylvania and auburn models. Elmira was comprable to a college campus. Taught education, vocational training, and rehabilitation
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Post-civil war prisons: the south
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the "new slaves" states tried to compensate by "leasing out" prisoners to companies. South's agrarian economy exploited cheap labor
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the industrial prison
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Any penal instituation whose main objective is the use of inmate labor to produce marketable products for prison profit
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the hawes-cooper act
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The passage of the Hawes-Cooper Convict Labor Act in 1929 allowed states to remove the interstate commerce nature of prison-made goods and to prohibit the sale of such goods in their state, even if the goods were produced in another state.
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The Ashurst-Summers Act,
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a United States Act of Congress that made it unlawful to knowingly transport in interstate or foreign commerce goods made by convict labor.
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Prisons in Modern U.S.
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over 2 million people currently incarerated in U.S. prisons.
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correctional ideology
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Body  of ideas and practices that pertain to the processing of offenders as determined by law orrectional ideologies in the u.s.
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Retribution
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 the dispensing or receiving of reward or punishment especially in the hereafter
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Detterance
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The hope that a criminal sanction will stop potential offenders by inflicting suffering on actual offenders
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Consequences of mass inprisonment
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over-crowding in prisons, burden on tax payers.
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Sentencing reform
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which provided guidelines for ensuring that similar crimes received similar punishments, Congress also enacted mandatory minimum sentences for certain crimes and drastically increased punishments for repeat offenders
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