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Question 1

What is institutional?

Answer 1

The reformation and rehabilitation of criminal offenders are held inside a correctional institution or penal establishment.

Question 2

Correction

Answer 2

a branch of the criminal justice system concerned with the custody, supervision and rehabilitation of criminal offenders.

Question 2

What is non-institutional?

Answer 2

The reformation and rehabilitation of criminal offenders are provided in community or outside prison.

Question 3

Penology

Answer 3

It is the study of punishment for crime or of criminal offenders. It includes the study of control and prevention of crime through punishment.

Question 4

Poena

Answer 4

which means pain or suffering

Question 5

Poenalis

Answer 5

which means punishment

Question 6

Sociology of Law

Answer 6

It deals with understanding the nature of criminal law and its procedure of administration.

Question 7

Penology or Penal Science

Answer 7

It deals with the management and administration of inmates.

Question 7

Criminal Etiology

Answer 7

it is concerned with determining causes and factors of crime occurrence

Question 8

Commitment

Answer 8

The entrusting for confinement of an inmate to a jail by competent authority for investigation, trial, and/or service of sentence.

Question 8

Carpeta

Answer 8

It refers to the institutional record of inmate, which consists of his mittimus or commitment order, the prosecutor’s information, and the decision of the trial court, including the appellate court, if any.

Question 9

Corrections

Answer 9

it is that branch of administration of criminal justice charged with the responsibility of the convicted offender.

Question 10

Commitment Order

Answer 10

It is a written order of the court or any other competent authority consigning an offender to a jail or prison for confinement.

Question 11

Contraband

Answer 11

It refers to any article, item, or thing prohibited by law and/or forbidden by jail rules.

Question 12

A type of contraband that is prohibited by law?

Answer 12

Illegal Contraband

Question 13

A type of contraband that is prohibited by jail rules?

Answer 13

Nuisance Contraband

Question 14

What is a COED Institution?

Answer 14

a co-correctional institution that holds both male and female offenders who interact and share the facility except for sleeping areas. They study, eat, dance, work, and engage in leisure activities within one campus.

Question 15

Convict BOGEY

Answer 15

Society exaggerated fear of the convict and ex-convict, which is usually far out of proportion to the real danger they present.

Question 16

Corporal Punishment

Answer 16

The infliction of physical pain as a form of punishment.

Question 17

Detainee

Answer 17

A person who is confined in prison pending preliminary investigation, trial, or appeal, or upon legal confinement in jail while undergoing investigation, awaiting final judgment.

Question 18

Deterrence

Answer 18

A crime-control strategy that uses punishment to prevent others from committing similar crimes.

Question 19

Diversion

Answer 19

Establishment of alternatives to the formal justice systems, such as deferred prosecution, resolution of citizen’s disputes, and treatment alternatives to street crimes.

Question 20

Deinstitutionalization

Answer 20

A crime strategy that focuses on keeping the offenders in the community rather than placing them in long-term institutions.

Question 21

Determinate Sentence

Answer 21

A fixed period of incarceration imposed on the offender by the court.

Question 22

Escape

Answer 22

It refers to an act of getting out unlawfully from confinement or custody by an inmate.

Question 23

Mittimus

Answer 23

A warrant issued by a court bearing its seal and the signature of the judge, directing the jail or prison authorities to receive inmates for custody or service of sentence imposed therein.

Question 24

Penance

Answer 24

An ecclesiastical punishment inflicted by an ecclesiastical court for some spiritual offense.

Question 25

Penal Servitude

Answer 25

A punishment which consists in keeping an offender in confinement and compelling him to labor.

Question 26

Penitentiary

Answer 26

A prison, correctional institution, or other place of confinement where convicted felons are sent to serve out the term of their sentence.

Question 26

It refers to the suffering that is inflicted by the state for the transgression of the law.

Answer 26

Penalty

Question 27

Proselytizing

Answer 27

This refers to the act of coercing of an inmate to change and practice other religion.

Question 28

Prisonization

Answer 28

It is a process by which an inmate learns through socialization, in accordance with the rules and regulations.

Question 29

Rehabilitation

Answer 29

It is a program of activity directed to restore an inmate's self-respect, thereby making him a law-abiding citizen after serving his sentence.

Question 30

Safekeeping

Answer 30

The temporary custody of a person for his own protection, safety, or care and/or his security from harm, injury, or danger for the liability he has committed.