CCJS 100 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Due Process, Elmira Correctional Facility, Auburn, New York

• School: University of Maryland
• Department: Criminology and Criminal Justice
• Course: CCJS 100
• Professor: Justine Madoo

Document Summary

Corrections: the variety of programs, services, facilities, and organizations responsible for the management of people who have been accused or convicted of criminal offenses. Development of corrections: invention of the penitentiary. Enlightenment: a movement during the eighteenth century in england and france which concepts of liberalism, rationalism, equality, and individualism dominated social and political thinking. This period reformed the way society thinks of criminal justice and law. Prior to the 1800 century, americans copied the european physical punishment and criminals were regularly sentenced to death for minor offenses. Inspection to ensure that offenders followed the rules. Abolition of the fees charged offenders for their food. Penitentiary: an institution intended to punish criminals by isolating them from society and from one another so they can reflect on their past misdeeds, repent, and reform: reform in the united states, the pennsylvania system. Separate confinement: a penitentiary system, developed in pennsylvania, in which each inmate was held in isolation from other inmates.