INSTITUTIONAL CORRECTION CHAPTER 2 Flashcards

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in the beginning of civilization, acts are characterized by behavioral controls categorized as: forbidden acts, accepted acts, and those acts that are encouraged.

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THE PRIMITIVE SOCIETY

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crimes, violence, rebellious acts and other acts, which are expressly prohibited by the society fall as?

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Forbidden acts.

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are those that can be beneficial to the welfare of the society such as early traditions and practices, folways, norms, those that are controlled by social rules, and laws.

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Accepted acts

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are anything approved by the majority which is believed to be beneficial to the common good.

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Encourage acts

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ENUMERATE THE 3 MAIN LEGAL SYSTEMS IN THE WORLD

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Roman
Mohammedan or Arabic
Anglo-American laws

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Among the three, which has the most lasting and the most prevailing influence?

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Roman law

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Oldest Code known to man

Institutes fines of monetary compensation for bodily damage, as opposed to the late rlex - talionis “an eye for an eye” principle of Babylonian law

Murder, robbery, adultery and rape were capital offenses.

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CODE OF UR-NAMMU

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formally Corpus Juris Civillis (Body of Civil Law)

A revision of the 12 tables of Roman Law

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Justinian Code

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represented the earliest codification of Roman law incorporated into the Justinian code. It is a collection of legal principles engraved on metal tablets and set up on the forum.

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The Twelve Tables

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a harsh code that provides the same punishment for both citizens and the slaves as it incorporate primitive concepts.

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Greek Code of Draco

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this law repealed Draco’s laws and allowed capital punishment only for a limited number of serious offenses, such as murder or military or political offenses against the state. It also gave the right of representation of every person to claim redress on behalf of another to whom wrong was being done.

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Solon’s Law

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specified punishment according to the social class of offesners, dividing them into: nobles, middle class, lower class and specifying the value of life each person according to social status.

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Burgundian Code

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13
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the Burgunian Code was revised by?

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King Sigismund

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It is the redress that the state takes against an offending member of society that usually involved pain and suffering.

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Punishment

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ENUMERATE THE PURPOSES OR JUSTIFICATION OF PUNISHMENT

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Retribution
Expiation or Atonement
Deterrence
Incapacitation and Protection
Reformation or Rehabilitation

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16
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the punishment should be provided by the state whose sanction is violated, to afford the society or the individual the opportunity of imposing upon the offender suitable punishment as might be enforced. Offenders should be punished because they deserve it.

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Retribution

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punishment in the form of group vengeance where the purpose is to appease the offended public or group.

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Expiation or Atonement

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punishment gives lesson to offender by showing to others what would happen to them if they violate the law. Punishment is imposed to warn potential offenders that they can afford to do what the offender has done.

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Deterrence

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the public is protected if the offender has been held in conditions where he can not harm others especially the public. Punishment is effected by placing them offenders in prison so that society is ensured from furtehr criminal depredations of criminals.

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Incapacitation and Protection

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it is the establishment of the usefulness and responsibility of the offender. Society’s interest can be better served by helping the prisoner to become law abiding citizen and productive upon his return to the community by requiring him to undergo intensive program of rehabilitation in prison.

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Reformation or Rehabilitation

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is the death by means of burning at stake, beheading broken on the wheel, garroting and other forms of medieval executions. Broken on the wheel, crucifixion, stoning, etc.

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Capital Punishments

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are those physical torture by means of mutilation, whipping or flogging, stocks, furca, stoning, branding, mutilation, flogging/whipping.

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Corporal Punishments

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ENUMERATE SOME CAPITAL PUNISHMENTS

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Burning at Stake,
Death by Hanging,
Death by Garroting,
Death by Stoning,
Death by Crucifixion, Death by Quartering, Death by Flaying,
Death by Boiling,
Death by Spanish Donkey, Death by Brazen Bull, Death by Fed to Animals, Death by Breaking the Wheel,
Death by Beheading.

24
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has been the most common physical punishment through the ages. The Mosaic code. The Roman law specified that this punishment is for certain forms of theft.

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Flogging/Whipping

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ENUMERATE SOME CORPORAL PUNISHMENTS

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Flogging/Whipping
Cat-o-nine tails
Russian Knout
Furca
Polo y Servicio
Penal Servitude/Civil Death
Mutilation

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trails traditional form of whip consisting nine knotted cords fastened to a wooden handle.

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Cat-o-nine tails

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a v-shaped yolk worn around the neck and where the outstretched arms of convict were tied to.

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Furca

28
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is the cruel form of whip that was made of leather strips fitted with fish hook

When the prisoner was whipped, the hook wood dig into the body, ripping away the proverbial “pound of flesh” with each stroke.

A thourough whipping that could result in death from blood loss. This kind of punishment survided into the 20th century.

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Russian Knout

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The early punishment were considered sysnonumous with slavery, those punished even had their “heads shaved” indicating the mark of the slave.

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Polo y Servicio

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extensive use in Roman days, the offenders property was confiscated in the name of the state and that his wife was declared a widow, meaning she is eligible to remarry. To society the criminal in effect “dead”

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Penal Servitude/Civil Death

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In the ___ century, a criminal could avoid punishment by claiming refugee in a church for a period of 40 days at the end of which time he has compelled to leave the realm by a road or path assigned to him.

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13th Century-Securing Sanctuary

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tortures as a form of punishment became prevalent.

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1468 (England)

33
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transportation of criminals was authorized. Russia and other European countries followed this system. It partially relieved over crowding of prisons.

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16th Century

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Transportation was abandoned in?

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1835

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death penalty became prevalent as a form of punishment.

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17th Century to Late 18th Century

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pretrial detentionf facilities operated by English Sheriff.

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GAOLS (Jails)

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long, low, naroow, single decked ships propelled by sails, usually rowed by criminals. A type of ship used for transportation of criminals in the sixteenth century.

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GALLEYS

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Decrepit transport, former warship used to house prisoners in the eighteenth and nineteenth century. These were abandoned warships converted into prisons as means of relieving congestion of prisoners. They were also called “floating hells”

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HULKS