Exam 11: The History of Control and Punishment

This federal incarceration agency was established in 1930.

The idea of incarceration as the sole punishment for convicted offenders took some time to develop.

This is a style of control in which offenders are punished as severely as possible for a crime and in which rehabilitation is not attempted.

Inmates worked very hard in the Pennsylvania System.

The rehabilitation movement in prisons was fully accomplished and found not to work.

Why and when did the courts abandon its "hands-off" policy concerning the operation of prisons?

According to this method of control, the punishment of a single offender sets an example for the rest of society.

The most extreme and controversial form of control is solitary confinement.

Before the twentieth century, executions were public and made as painful for the offender as possible. Why?

This early U.S. prison was characterized by the separate-and-silent system.

Execution is much older than incarceration.

From 1900 to 1930, work for inmates was deemed beneficial because .

It was not until around 1980 that U.S. prisons acknowledged rehabilitation as a primary goal.

What effect did the politicization of inmates in the 1960s have on rehabilitation efforts?

U.S. courts have always been deeply involved in the operation of prisons.

Early American prisons were locally controlled and incarcerated different types of offenders together.

What did the Supreme Court set forth in Furman v. Georgia?

In this case, the Supreme Court found that the possibility that a method of humane execution would be incorrectly administered and cause the condemned pain does not violate the Eighth Amendment ban on cruel and unusual punishment.

Methods of execution have changed to include the reduction of torture.

According to Maconochie, brutality was useful for purposes of social control.