Penal transportation

The meaning of penal servitude is ‘serving a sentence that is meant to punish the prisoner’ (http://vcp.e2bn.org/justice/page11360-types-of-punishment-transportation-and-penal-servitude.html) The convicts serving penal servitude, usually worked on public works and they were sentenced to a minimum of 3 years to life, and were the most serious of offenders. This sentence could be implemented for convicts who had been given 14 years or less transportation and it could also be given to…

Miss Avril Sinanan, age forty-four of Ribeiro Trace, Rock Road, Penal was born on the 17th March, 1970. She was nurtured from a very poor rural family consisting of eleven children and her two elderly parents: she was the fourth child. Her mother was a housewife and her father was the sole breadwinner of the household, he worked as a farmer in the sugarcane fields until all the plantations were closed down in 2003 because it became a financial burden to the government to meet the subsidy. Both…

Australia: in particular, Port Arthur in Tasmania. Prisons were built based on 19th century theorists Bentham and Beccaria, using concepts of isolation, silence and hard labour as punishment. Punishments such as hangings, floggings, denunciation and transportation were all part of the classical theorist way of thinking in the 19th century, before punishment of the body changed to punishment of the mind. This report will explain the background and theory behind Port Arthur’s prison structures…

Society has a set of high social norms, which are formally written, also known as laws. If one disobeys the rights of others, that individual has broken the social norms and society has the right to punish. The concept proposes that every individual freely and willingly enter an agreement to build up society, but giving up a portion of their individual freedom for the return of some protection. These types of confinements include jail, prison, rehabilitation, parole, and probation. Throughout…

exile, execution or to enforce payment of debts. During the eighteenth century, the death penalty began to fall out of favour and so transportation emerged as a ‘prominent…

Introduction 1.1 Background of the study In 1788, about 1530 British people arrived at Australia as penal transportation, and for the next 80 years, about 16 million people moved into Australia and established penal colony. The following paragraph indicates what happened in Australia as a first step of a colonial domination. The rabbits are the British, who came there with purpose of establishing a new penal colony to supplant the America. Actually, there were Aborigines inhabiting on the land…

own version of a Terroristic Threat statute. While each has it’s differences in definition and application, the common thread is that a threat to commit any violent act is made with the intent to - as the Model Penal Code puts it - “terrorize another person or group of persons.” The Texas Penal Code states the following: A person commits an offense if he threatens to commit any offense involving violence to any person or property with intent to: 1. Cause a reaction of any type to his threat[s]…

slaves, all governors having had previous experience in colonies where other forms of slavery existed. According to them, convict and slave labour was identical, whether the convict was assigned or in government service. They also believed that transportation was slavery. The fact that convicts might gain a higher living standard than free workers spoke of the efficacy of any slave system, but did not alter the basic fact that convictism was slavery (Nicholas 1988, p.…

There have been many articles stating this way of punishment is inhumane and that is the reason we do not use it anymore, and look at it as a dark time in our past.”The now-dominant revisionist theory of penal change posits that the penitentiary, as a paradigmatic bureaucratic institution, arose due to a dramatic change away from inefficient punishments, such as public executions and torture, toward a sensibility of effective control and widespread surveillance”…

vital, if not more, as the production of the gold itself. The colony began to rapidly increase its grain production to provide for the massive influx of population in Victoria. Along with the manufacturing of agricultural machinery, land and water transportation system of the colony developed to transport the wheats to the increasing population. ”Processing, manufacturing, and engineering,” (History of Australia) industries including shipyards and foundries were established in Sydney and…