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CHAPTER 2
The Early History of Correctional Thought and Practice
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
After reading this chapter, students should be able to:
1. Understand the major forms of punishment from the Middle Ages to the American
Revolution.
2. Discuss the Age of Reason, and how it affected corrections.
3. Understand the contribution of Cesare Beccaria and the classical school
4. Explain the contribution of Jeremy Bentham and the utilitarians.
5. Discuss the work of John Howard and its influence on correctional reform.
KEY TERMS
Lex talionis
Law of retaliation; the principle that punishment should correspond in degree and kind to the
offense (“an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth”).
Secular law
The law of the civil society as distinguished from church law.
Wergild
“Man money”; money paid to relatives of a murdered person or to the victim of a crime to
compensate them and to prevent a blood feud.
Benefit of clergy
The right to be tried in an ecclesiastical court, where punishments were less severe than those
meted out by civil courts, given the religious focus on penance and salvation.
Galley slavery
Forced rowing of large ships or galleys.
House of correction
Detention facility that combined the major elements of a workhouse, poorhouse, and penal
industry by both disciplining inmates and setting them to work.
Transportation
The practice of transplanting offenders from the community to another region or land, often a
penal colony.
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Hulks
Abandoned ships the English converted to hold convicts during a period of prison crowding
between 1776 and 1790.
Corporal punishment
Punishment inflicted on the offender’s body with whips or other devices that cause pain.
Classical criminology
A school of criminology that views behavior as stemming from free will, that demands
responsibility and accountability of all perpetrators, and that stresses the need for punishments
severe enough to deter others.
Utilitarianism
The doctrine that the aim of all action should be the greatest possible balance of pleasure over
pain, hence the belief that a punishment inflicted on an offender must achieve enough good to
outweigh the pain inflicted.
CHAPTER OUTLINE
I. From the Middle Ages to the American Revolution
A. The Hammurabic Code, the Sumerian law of Mesopotamia, and other ancient
codes form some of the first comprehensive statements of prohibited behavior.
1. Lex talionis was the law of retaliation and underlay the laws of Anglo-Saxon
society until the time of the Norman Conquest in 1066 in England.
a. Crime was a private affair; vengeance was a duty to be carried
out by the person or family wronged.
B. Secular law developed in England and Europe in the absence of an organized
government. Crime among neighbors took the character of war and public peace
was endangered.
C. In the year 1200, England developed a system of wergild, or payment of money as
compensation for a wrong as a way of reducing the frequency of violent blood
feuds.
D. The main emphasis of criminal law was on maintaining public order among people
of equal status and wealth; the main criminal punishments were penance and the
payment of fines or restitution, while lower-class offenders received physical
punishment at the hands of their masters.
E. The church, the dominant social institution of the time, maintained ecclesiastical
punishments; benefit of clergy was eventually granted to all literate persons.
F. Galley slavery was the practice of forcing men to power ships by rowing; it was
not formally abolished in Europe until the mid-1700s.
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Instructor’s Manual
G. Imprisonment—Until the Middle Ages, jails were used primarily for the detention
of people awaiting trial.
H. Bridewells—Houses of Correction, Milan House of Correction, Maison de Force.
I. Transportation—From ancient times, people who have disobeyed the rules of a
community have been cast out or banished.
1. English prisoners could choose transportation instead of gallows or whipping
posts; by 1606 with the settlement of Virginia, the transportation of convicts to
North America became economically important for the colonial companies for
whom they labored for the remainder of their terms. It also helped to relieve
the overcrowded prisons of England.
2. Transportation was so successful that, in 1717, a statute was passed allowing
convicts to be given over to private contractors, who then shipped them to the
colonies and sold their services; this made transportation the standard sanction
for non-capital offenses.
3. The Transportation Act of 1718 made transportation the standard penalty for
noncapital offenses.
4. From 1787 for the next 80 years, 160,000 prisoners were transported from
Great Britain and Ireland to New South Wales and other parts of Australia.
J. Corporal Punishment and Death.
1. Although corporal punishment and death have been used throughout history,
the 16th–18th centuries in England and Europe were particularly brutal.
2. The reasons for the rise in the severity of punishments are thought to reflect the
expansion of criminal law. The number of crimes for which the English
authorized the death penalty swelled from 50 in 1688 to 160 in 1765 and
reached 225 by 1800.
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G L O S S A RY
Abats, stands for such butcher’s supplies as heads, hearts, livers, kidneys,
feet, &c.
Aiguillettes, see No. 1755.
Ailerons, see No. 1583.
Amourettes, see No. 1288.
Anglaise, to treat à l’Anglaise, see No. 174.
Anglaise, to cook à l’Anglaise, means to cook plainly in water.
Anglaise, a preparation of beaten eggs, oil and seasoning.
Attereaux, see No. 1219.
Baba-moulds, a kind of small deep cylindrical mould, slightly wider at the
top than at the bottom.
Bain-Marie, a hot-water bath in which utensils containing various culinary
preparations are immersed to keep warm, or for the purpose of
poaching or cooking.
Barquettes, see No. 314.
Biscottes, a kind of rusks.
Blanch, Blanched, see No. 273.
Brandade, see No. 1027.
Brunoise-fashion, see Cut below.
Canapés, see No. 316.
Caramel Stage, see Stages in the Cooking of Sugar, below.
Casserole (En), see No. 250.
Cassolette, a kind of hot hors-d’œuvre, moulded to the shape of a small
drum.
Cèpes, a kind of mushroom (Boletus edulis).
Chartreuse-fashion, see No. 1220.
Chiffonade, see No. 215.
Chinois, a very small green candied orange.
Chipolata, a kind of small sausages.
Choux, a kind of cake made from Pâte à Choux, q.v.