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History of Corrections Review - Key Terms

These activities will help reinforce key terms for the History of Corrections unit, specifically terms from Introduction to Criminal Justice book with some overlap of terms from the Criminal Justice Today book. Complete all 3 activities: Flashcards, Concentration, and Matching.

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Small minimum security institutions for men and womenCo-correctional facilities
Punishment was designed to shame offendersPublic humiliation
Process by which prison staff learned about threats to security from inmate informantsSnitch system
Form of imprisonment developed by Quakers - solitary confinementPennsylvania system
Involvement of private sector in operation of confinement facilitiesPrivatization
Process allowing inmates to visit in private with significant othersConjugal visits
A lesser form of mutilation; offenders markedBranding
Punishment in which offenders were ex-communicated or separated from society (two types)Exile
VERY short term holding facility located near police agencyLock-up
Imprisonment system in which prisoners CONGREGATED in silenceAuburn system
Another name for Auburn systemCongregate system
Ancient punishment requiring offenders to leave their community and live elsewhereBanishment
Return to crime; repetition of crimeRecidivism
Historical form of imprisonment designed to instill good work habits in the idleWorkhouse
Philosophy that prisoners should receive no free service superior to those available to law abiding citizensLess-eligibility principle
Corporal punishment; whippingFlogging
Historically, most widely used physical punishmentFlogging
Institution where new inmates are assessed and assigned permanent correctional institutionClassification facility
Historical punishment in which offenders were shipped from their native country to work elsewhere.Transportation
Law of retaliationLex talionis
Facility that holds convicted and unconvicted persons for typically short periodsJail
Designation applied to a institutional FACILITY to describe measures to be taken inside and outSecurity level
Philosophy of correctional treatment that applies medical science in the handling of prisonersMedical model
Classification assigned to PRISONERS to indicate degree of precaution needed when interacting with themCustody level
A type of group therapy that incorporates the total living environmentMilieu therapy


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