REVIEW FOR EXAM 1
CORRECTIONAL SYSTEMS AND PRACTICES
- Know the different eras and
models associated with prison development over time beginning with the
penitentiary era and know the general goals of each. Which is the most
dominate today?
- Know the two jury findings
required in Texas
to support the death penalty in Texas.
- Know the position the authors
of our book take on rehabilitation on page 5.
- What is the Bridewell and what was its purpose
initially?
- Know the punishment scheme in
Texas.
For example: 1st degree felony is 5-99 years.
- Know the following about the
death penalty: age eligibility
requirements in Texas
and minimum age set by the Supreme Court; public support for it and the number
of executions today compared to the early decades of the 20th
century.
- What were jails initially
created for?
- Know the four main punishment
dispositions used in the U.S.
today and which is used most. E.g.
probation
- Know the case of Furman v. Georgia and Gregg
v. Georgia..
What is the significance of each?
- Know the differences between
a jail and prison
- What proportion
of inmates are reported to be mentally ill?
- Know the three different jail
designs that have evolved through time and the major differences between
them.
- Jails are within what
percentage of their rated capacity today. Who are the inmates (for
example, pre-trial detainees)
- What proportion of jail
inmates are females?
- Know the characteristics of
the Auburn style prison
- Why was the
Auburn style prison considered superior to the Pennsylvania style prison?
- Know the philosophies of
punishments beginning on page 4.
KNOW THE FOLLOWING INDIVIDUALS AND WHAT THEIR CONTRIBUTION TO CORRECTIONS WAS:
- Jeremy Bentham
- Cesare
Becarria
- John Howard
- Enoch Wines
- Alexander Maconochie
- Sir Walter Crofton
- Zebulon Brockway
- Benjamin Rush
KNOW THE FOLLOWING PLACES OR TERMS AND THE DEFINITION AND OR SIGNIFICANCE OF
EACH
- Walnut Street jail
- Newgate
prison
- Eastern State Penitentiary
- Ticket of leave
- Podular
design
- Direct supervision
- Lex
Talionis
- branding
- Just deserts
- Lethal injection
- Banishment
- Transporation
- Determinate sentence
- Indeterminate sentence
- Pillory
- The rack
- Bifurcated trial
- Consecutive sentence
- Mandatory sentence