CRIM 100 Lecture 23: CRIM 100 - Lecture 23 - Jails and Prisons
Document Summary
Crim 100 lecture 23 jails and prisons. Enlightenment: a period of new thinking about causes of crime and the ways to respond to crime. John howard identified conditions and practices necessary for reform of the english prison system. Penitentiary reform act: poor sanitation and high disease and sickness, no oversight a free for all with security concentrated outward. Family was responsible for feeding and clothing inmates: sentencing was ambiguous, a secure and sanitary building. Inspection to ensure that offenders followed the rules: abolition of the fees charged offenders for their food. Rehabilitation of offenders: philosophy that an offender can be restored to a constructive law abiding member of society. Improving conditions in social environments that seemed to be the breeding grounds of crime: rehabilitating individual offenders. Medical model: prisoner"s committed crime based on physical or psych illness or defect, by treating the problem or cause, you can cure the offender. Prisoner rights: prisons are operated by the executive branch.
