Exam 11: The History of Control and Punishment

This case helped set guidelines for what constitutes cruel and unusual punishment in prison and the circumstances under which prison officials are liable.

The Auburn Prison at first used the separate-and-silent system until officials realized the system was extremely harmful to inmates.

In what decade did the courts begin to specify the constitutional rights of inmates?

Historically, executions were part of a public spectacle designed to demonstrate the consequences of violating the law.

List two ways the deterrent effect of capital punishment could be improved, according to supporters of capital punishment.

One of the changes instituted during the age of retribution was .

According to this method of control, an offender is prevented from breaking more laws by either imprisonment or death.

This technique was designed not just to punish, but also to make the inmate more likely to return to free society successfully.

When was the last guillotine execution?

What limited the severity of the flogging of slaves in the pre-Civil War South?

The Walnut Street Jail .

Prior to the twentieth century, two major features of the death sentence were spectacle and pain.

This early English method of control established places where the poor were locked up and put to work.

The criminal justice system still uses shaming and humiliation on offenders.

This philosophy states than a person who commits a heinous offense deserves death.

Most executions are carried out about six months after the conviction.

A primary reason that rehabilitation eventually became considered important was the change in how science regarded illness.

Historically, death is a common form of punishment.

This decision established limits for the execution of the intellectually disabled.

Arguments against capital punishment include retribution.