Punishment or Rehibilitaiton

PUNISHMENT OR REHIBILITAION

Heidi Krcelich

Kaplan University

September 3, 2013

CJ-101

Professor J.C Paez

Our correctional system punishes offender by incarcerating them within a prison or a jail. In earlier times, punishment was cruel and torturous. When a crime was committed, fines would sometimes be levied, but the most common form of punishment was corporal punishment which often resulted in death. Corporal punishment would fit the doctrine of lex talionis (the law of retaliation. This is known today as an “eye for an eye”. One of the most common forms of corporal punishment that was carried over to the new world was flogging which is a form of whipping. The last known official case of flogging was in Delaware on June 16, 1952 (Schmalleger, 2013). Some countries around the world still impose corporal punishment. Some of the punishments of the ages along with flogging were mutilation, branding, and public humiliation. As the time moved along, they developed workhouses to instill habits of working to those who are unemployed. These are the forerunners of the modern day prison, with the exception that they did not house criminal offenders, they were to reinforce the notion of hard work. There was also exile, where countries would send their criminal offenders to isolated islands, to server out their time, England eventually did away with exile, but use old worn out ships to hold criminals in confinement. In today’s society, the correction system has several ways to punish criminal such as state and federal prison, local county jails, probation, and house arrest. The process of determining ones quilt or innocence will decide if and what punishment is appropriate. There are some prisons that make the inmates work making such things as prison furniture and license plates. Some prisons require their inmates to farm and raise livestock to feed the prisoners of the state. There are so many things that the correction system does to punish...