Study Guide Q2 Corrections CRJU 3311 History P1

Corrections is an important field of study

What Corrections requires

Personal 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)

Cesare Beccaria’s 4 points on crime (1738-1794)

Jeremy Bentham’s (1830)  hedonistic calculus

Great Law (1682 – 1718)    

The earliest state prison for felons in America (1773)