This research paper is based on American Correction. Through this paper I will introduce crime, punishment, and correction, the birth of correctional facilities, as well as their meaning and their purposes. I will emphasize on how we have modernize from our old ways of corporal punishment to more civilize ways of dealing with criminals and delinquents. I will incorporate individuals, whom played a big role in the criminal justice system and influence the way we treat and care for prisoners, by introducing new theories. Cesar Bacarria, Jeremy Bentham and John Howard, like I previously stated are these individuals are very important in the criminal era. We will explore correctional thoughts and correctional practice. Crime has always
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“In 1553 London’s Bishop Nicholas Ridley persuades Edward VI to donate Bridewell Palace as the first house of correction. By a law passed in 1609 each English county was required to provide “bridewell” or house of corrections. Bridewell houses were houses established throughout England for the employment and the housing of offenders.” These houses were the beginning of correctional facilities. This facility holds the lower class criminals like prostitutes, beggars, minor criminals, orphan, idle poor and sick. These lower class criminal and delinquents were to be disciplined and set to work, their product were to be sold at the market and the profits that they made would be spent on the facility and hopefully this facility would be self sufficient and wouldn’t need any government funding. American Correction. (pg30). Before the bridewell all criminals were piled up together the poor, the sick and the most dangerous …show more content…
Death was reserved for premeditated murder. “Messiah.edu. Two years later in 1692 was the era of the Salem Witch Trials. A series of trials holds in front of local magistrate followed by county trials to prosecute people accused of witchcraft. As we become much more civilized we see the use of people being in trial for accused of crimes. During the year 1718, we starting to see some correctional thoughts come into play along with correctional practice, “The Angelican Code” replaced “The Great Law” and the English parliament act makes transportation standard punishment for non capital crime. From there a series of correctional facilities started to be established. In 1755, the Milan House of Correction was established in Italy and in 1772; a similar institution was created in Ghent and was called the “Maison de force”. “During the 1700s, Western scholars and the social activists, particularly in England and France, engaged in a sweeping reconception of the nature of society. In this remarkable period, known as the Enlightenment, or the Age of Reason, new ideas based on rationalism, the importance of the individual, and the limitation of government
“In 1553 London’s Bishop Nicholas Ridley persuades Edward VI to donate Bridewell Palace as the first house of correction. By a law passed in 1609 each English county was required to provide “bridewell” or house of corrections. Bridewell houses were houses established throughout England for the employment and the housing of offenders.” These houses were the beginning of correctional facilities. This facility holds the lower class criminals like prostitutes, beggars, minor criminals, orphan, idle poor and sick. These lower class criminal and delinquents were to be disciplined and set to work, their product were to be sold at the market and the profits that they made would be spent on the facility and hopefully this facility would be self sufficient and wouldn’t need any government funding. American Correction. (pg30). Before the bridewell all criminals were piled up together the poor, the sick and the most dangerous …show more content…
Death was reserved for premeditated murder. “Messiah.edu. Two years later in 1692 was the era of the Salem Witch Trials. A series of trials holds in front of local magistrate followed by county trials to prosecute people accused of witchcraft. As we become much more civilized we see the use of people being in trial for accused of crimes. During the year 1718, we starting to see some correctional thoughts come into play along with correctional practice, “The Angelican Code” replaced “The Great Law” and the English parliament act makes transportation standard punishment for non capital crime. From there a series of correctional facilities started to be established. In 1755, the Milan House of Correction was established in Italy and in 1772; a similar institution was created in Ghent and was called the “Maison de force”. “During the 1700s, Western scholars and the social activists, particularly in England and France, engaged in a sweeping reconception of the nature of society. In this remarkable period, known as the Enlightenment, or the Age of Reason, new ideas based on rationalism, the importance of the individual, and the limitation of government