CRJU 312 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Elmira Correctional Facility, Reward System, Solitary Confinement

• School: USC, SC, Carolina, South Carolina
• Department: Criminology and Criminal Justice
• Course: CRJU 312
• Professor: Heather Ouellette

Document Summary

Methods of punishment: corporal punishments, capital punishments: stoning, hanging, burn at stake. Branding: a form of punishment involving intentionally scarring the offender, serving as retribution, deterrent, and a type of stigma. 9/7/2016 for the exam need to know the difference between models. Used to punish those who gossiped (primarily used for women) A birdcage-like device fastened to the offender"s head. The accused gossip was strapped to a chair and submerged in water (religious element of water) (cleansing effect) Penn brought to america a legal code, known as the great law in 1682: restricted the death penalty, replaced corporal punishments. He combined rehabilitation with existing notions of deterrence. After penn"s death = english anglican code: reinstated harsh penalties and widened the net. Crime was not defined as a critical social problem. Deterrence was not a primary objective of punishment. Colonists took a simplistic view of the causes of crime. An abandoned copper mine in simsbury, ct (makeshift) (still wasn"t working)