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- 1 What did the Quakers Criminal Code include Group of answer choices?
- 2 What is the belief that criminals do not have complete choice over their criminal actions and may commit acts that are beyond their control?
- 3 What was the first penitentiary designed to house sentenced offenders in the United States called?
- 4 What did the concept of the born criminal mean for the criminal justice system?
What did the Quakers Criminal Code include Group of answer choices?
What did the Quakers’ criminal code include? This Italian physician concluded that criminals had traits that made them throwbacks to earlier stages of evolution. The stages of this system were solitary confinement, special prison, open institutions, and ticket of leave.
What is the belief that criminals do not have complete choice over their criminal actions and may commit acts that are beyond their control?
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| Term Penology | Definition The study of the use of punishment for criminal acts. |
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| Term Positive School | Definition The belief that criminals do not have complete choice over their criminal actions and may commit acts that are beyond their control. |
Who among the following concluded that criminals had traits that made them throwbacks to earlier stages of evolution?
Lombroso determined that serious offenders inherited their criminal traits and were “born criminals,” atavistic throwbacks to earlier evolutionary ancestors. They had strong jaws, big teeth, bulging foreheads, and long arms. These types of offenders constituted about one third of all criminals.
Which early colonial bail system enabled rich offenders?
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| What was the emphasis in the Rehabilitative Era? | The professionalizing of staff through recruitment and training, and the implementation of many self-improvement programs of prison management. |
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| Which early colonial bail system enabled rich offenders to pay a fee and be released? | Fee system |
What was the first penitentiary designed to house sentenced offenders in the United States called?
The Walnut Street Prison was a pioneering effort in prison reform. Originally built as a conventional jail just before the American Revolution, it was expanded in 1790 and hailed as a model of enlightened thinking about criminals.
What did the concept of the born criminal mean for the criminal justice system?
Lombroso’s (1876) theory of criminology suggests that criminality is inherited and that someone “born criminal” could be identified by the way they look. This implies that criminality is inherited and that it can be identified by physical defects.
What did Phrenologists believe indicated criminal tendencies?
Phrenologists believed that criminal tendencies were indicated by: bumps on the head. This criminologist believed that criminals were biological throwbacks on the evolutionary scale.