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30 Cards in this Set
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Blood feud |
An often prolonged series of retaliatory vengeful or hostile acts or exchange of such acts |
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Corporal punishment |
Any physical pain inflicted short of death cr |
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Criminology |
Looks at the reasons for and consequences of crime |
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Who is cesare beccaria |
The founder of the classical school of criminology |
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Who is Jeremy Bentham |
Argued that the crime rate would go down if the amount of punishment were carefully calibrated and maximize pleasure |
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Who is John Howard |
An English high sheriff who was so appalled |
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Who is John Howard |
An English high sheriff who was so appalled by jail conditions that he undertook a crusade to improve places of detention |
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Who is William penn |
Quaker leader who created the state of Pennsylvania and a system of justice that required compensation of victims and repentance to restore the offenders to gods grace |
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The great law |
Body of laws of the quakers that saw hard labor as a more effective punishment than death for crimes |
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Walnut street jail |
First penitentiary created in Philadelphia by the quakers |
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Pennsylvania system |
The system of prison discipline using isolation or solitary confinement with both a work requirement and moral and religious instruction |
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Indeterminate sentence |
A period of confinement with specified minimum and maximum length |
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Industrial prison |
Any penal institution whose main objective is the use of inmate labor to produce marketable products for prison profit |
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Hawes-Cooper Act |
Federal legislation that forbids the manufacture and transportation of prison goods made by convicts and prisoners |
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Ombudsman |
Correctional overseer who investigates reported complaints |
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Retribution |
Getting even with the offender who has. Violated the rights of others and deserves to be punished |
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General deterrence |
Preventing potential criminal behavior by making examples of offenders openly |
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Specific deterrence |
Punishing individual offenders to prevent their further criminal behavior |
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Selective incapacitation |
Incapacitating high risk offenders believe to pose substantial probability of additional crime |
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Rehabilitation model |
Literately means using treatment to restore an offender to levels of social functioning not yet attained |
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Indeterminate sentencing |
Judge imposes a minimum and maximum period of incarceration time under the assumption that a parole board will identify the maximum benefit from imprisonment and subsequently release the inmate |
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Determinate sentencing |
Judge imposed fixed term of incarceration with the expectation the inmate will serve the amount of time |
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Misdemeanor |
I relatively minor violation of the criminal law |
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Felony |
Serious criminal violation sometimes punished by death or sentence of at least one year in prison |
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Plea-bargaining |
Process by which the defendant agrees to plead guilty for prosecutorial consideration |
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Presentence report |
Document prepared by agent of the court that investigates the offenders background for Judicial determination of punishment |
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Good time policies |
Administrative mechanism reducing sentence length by crediting inmates for good behavior |
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Due process |
Legal requirement that constitutional rights of the accused and correctional clients will conform to guaranteed constitutional protection minimums |
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Court of last resort |
The highest appeal court having jurisdiction within that particular geographical area |
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Writ of habeas corpus |
A writ of habeas corpus is used to bring a prisoner or other detainee before the court to determine if the person is imprisonment or detention is lawful |
