The criminal punishment was a prominent imprisonment during the 1600s and 1700s in Europe (Bohm, 2014). In the previous time, it was used to: constrain people prior to trial; detain criminals waiting for other penalties, like unto demise and mortal punishment; used to pressure offenders to pay accounts and bills. Criminal punishment in those times was also used to apprehend and abuse servants; cruel punishment in attaining righteous instruction and spiritual transformation; as well as to prevent the spread of an endemic. Penalties were aimed at the body of the offender and his/her land. The primary goal was imposing suffering, by the inflicting of pain, which was done in public to disgrace the offender, James Q. Whitman said it best, this was
