Corrections is an important field of study
What Corrections requires
Retaliation on the offender's family by the victim’s family -- Pre history
Friedensgeld -- Pre history
Lex talionis (1860 BC) “an eye for and eye?”
Mamertine Prison -- 64 BC
The link between crime and sin -- 600 AD.
Penal Servitude -- AD 640 to 1020
The two characteristics of punishment in the Middle Ages (1200 to 1500)
The criminal act after power for over the common good was concentrated into the sovereign (1500 to 1700)
The brank -- Middle Ages (1200 to 1700)
Beccaria’s 4 points on crime (1738-1794)
Jeremy Bentham’s (1830) hedonistic calculus
Describe the Great Law and ID the dude (1682 – 1718)
The earliest state prison for felons in America (1773)