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Essential Knowledge
To perform the aforesaid big picture (unit learning outcome) for the three (3)
weeks of the course, you need to fully understand the following essential
knowledge that will be laid down in the succeeding pages of discussion.
For Criminal Justice System purposes, the term correction, corrections and
correctional, are words describing a variety of functions typically carried out by
government agencies, and involving the punishment, treatment, and supervision of
persons who have been convicted of crimes, these functions commonly given
through institutional and non-institutional approaches. A correctional system, also
known as a penal system, thus refers to a network of agencies that functions
related to rehabilitating convicted persons through either institution-based or
community-based corrections.
Punishment - The redress that the state takes against an offending member.
Involves pain or suffering produced by design and justified by some value that
the suffering is assumed to have. It is a means of social control, a device to
cause people to become cohesive and induce conformity thus it is necessary to
restore moral equilibrium and for grounds of social utility.
Capital Punishment – sentencing a convicted person to death by means of
hanging, burning, immersing in boiling oil, feeding to wild animals and other
barbaric ways.
Corporal Punishment – Any physical pain inflicted short of death.
Public Humiliation or Shaming – Is affected by use of stocks and pillory,
docking stool, docking stool, branding, shaving off the hair and etc.
Banishment or Transportation – This is the sending or putting away of an
offender which was carried out either by a prohibition against coming into
specified territory.
Essential Knowledge
To perform the aforesaid big picture (unit learning outcome) for the three (3)
weeks of the course, you need to fully understand the following essential
knowledge that will be laid down in the succeeding pages of discussion.
Early Codes
Justification of Punishment
a. Retribution – punishment of an offender was carried out in the form of
vengeance.
- ‘’An eye for an eye’’ philosophy
- an exchange for Retaliatory Principle
b. Expiation or Atonement – this was in the form of group vengeance
c. Deterrence or Exemplarity – punishment gives lesson to the offender by
showing to others what would happen to them if they violate the law.
d. Protection – by placing offenders in prison society is protected from further
criminal depredation of criminals.
e. Reformation – society’s interest can be best served by helping the prisoner
become a law-abiding citizen and productive upon his return to the community by
requiring him to undergo an intensive program of rehabilitation.
Penitentiary – Referred to a place where crime and sin may be atoned for and
penitence.
Workhouse - A public institution in which the destitute of a parish received
board and lodging in return for work.
Essential Knowledge
To perform the aforesaid big picture (unit learning outcome) for the three (3)
weeks of the course, you need to fully understand the following essential
knowledge that will be laid down in the succeeding pages of discussion.
Evolution of Correction
Prisons grew as a substitute for transportation, exile, public degradation,
particularly corporal punishments, and the death penalty. In the United States
where prisons were first established, imprisonment was introduced as a substitute
for corporal punishment and death penalty. Prison and penitentiaries arose to take
care of the unexecuted and un-pardoned criminals.
Early Prisons
1. Mamertine Prison – An early place of confinement in Rome in 64 BC using
primitive dungeons built under the main sewer.
2. Sanctuary – Asylum that placed the wrong doer in seclusion of arrest in cities
followed by Christian Church.
Early Workhouses
1. Bridewell – a workhouse created for the employment and housing of London’s
‘’riffraff’’ in 1557 and was based on the work ethic that followed the breakup of
feudalism and increased immigration of rural population to urban areas.