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Forerunners of Incarceration
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Ch. 10, page 351
Public humiliation,corporal and capital punishment, banishment, beheading, |
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Cesare Beccaria
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wrote, "On Crimes and Punishments"
-punishment should parallel harm resulting from crime -punishment should be severe enough to outweigh pleasure obtainable from the crime |
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Panopticon
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round prison building with tiers of cells lining the circumference and facing a central inspection tower. Invented by Jeremy Bentham. Also known as "All-seeing" or "Inspection-house"
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Privatization of Confinement Facilities
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357
the involvement of the private sector in the construction and operation of confinement facilities |
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Jail
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a facility, usually operated at the local level that holds convicted offenders and unconvicted persons for relatively short periods.
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Protective Custody
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the segregation of inmates for their own safety
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Administrative segregation
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the keeping of inmates in secure isolation so that they cannot harm others.
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Group Counseling
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Interaction between a counselor and a small group of inmates. Popular for it's economy and because large groups of inmates share similar backgrounds and problems.
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Ineffectiveness of rehabilitation
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14% of the american public thinks that prisons are doing a n excellent or good job rehabilitating prisoners.34% fair, 48% poor. |
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Define Prison
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aka total institution:
a place of residence and work where a large number of like-situated individuals, cut off from the wider society for an appreciable period of time, together led an enclosed, formally administered round of life. |
