SOC 3740 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Solitary Confinement, Acts Of Vengeance, Public Humiliation
Document Summary
Explores the relations between punishment and society along with its purpose as a social phenomenon and its role in social life. Understands penal insitutions and their practices within a wider social network. Corrections is the variety of policies, programs, services, facilities and organizations responsible for the management of individuals who have been accused or convicted of criminal offenses. Pain or consequence: unpleaseant or creates suffering. Direct result of an offence against legal rules. Imposed and administered by an authority constituted by an legal system against which the offense is committed. So acts such as public hangings or acts which will scare off people from committing the act. Physically prevents someone from committing further crimes for a period of time. The threat of punishment will prevent the commission of crime: general and specific. Delinquent acts can be controlled by the threat of punishment. Severe punishment will convince them not to repair their illegal acts.
