LAWS 3305 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Penitentiary Act, History Of Europe, Industrial Revolution
11 Dec 2016
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Prior to the 18th century, incarceration was generally not the leading punishment: crime was more or less punished with death, pain or shame. Feature that distinguish penitentiaries from earlier jails/prisons: key characteristics. Mandatory labour: purpose of these characteristics = to reform the inmates. Development of penal incarceration in medieval and modern europe. Used on clerics, within monasteries or church institutions. Workhouses: do not only operate in a criminal aspect (forcing homeless to work), but do have some overlap with criminal justice. Make people more willing/driven to work once their sentence is done: ex: bridgewell (england) Typical population in penitentiaries: vagrants and misbehaving servants, criminal offenders. Hulks: moored ships, offenders work during day and are locked on the ships at night. Penitentiary act 1779: not actually within a prison: new perspectives on prisons: interest in jail reform cleaner and more orderly.
