Institutional Correction

PUNISHMENT
Punishment
is a means of social control. It is a device to cause people to
become cohesive and to induce conformity.

Is the infliction of some sort of pain on the offender for violating
the law

Penalty imposed, as for transgression of law, any pain, penalty,

forfeiture, or confinement imposed by the court for a wrong doing.
ANCIENT FORMS OF PUNISHMENT
Death Penalty (Capital Punishment) –Sentencing a
convicted person to death by means of hanging,
burning, immersing in boiling oil, feeding to wild
animals and other barbaric ways.
Capital punishment were designed to be slow, painful
and torturous.
ANCIENT FORMS OF PUNISHMENT
1. Death by Sawing – the criminal is attached to an arch of
wood and then saw vertically from the groin through the
skull.
2. Garroting – the victim is tied to stake and loop of rope and
then placed around his/her neck, the rod in the loop turned
until the rope tightened, chocking the victim.
3. Guillotine – to end life rather than to inflict pain.
(beheading)
ANCIENT FORMS OF
PUNISHMENT
4. Premature Burial
5. Hanged, Drawn, and Quartered
6. Electric Chair – execution by
electrocution
7. Firing Squad – execution by firing
squad
CORPORAL PUNISHMENT (Physical
Torture)
1. Flogging - whipping with nine knotted wires or burb wires.
2. The Brazen bull – victim placed inside the enclosed room with the
extreme heat of fire.
3. Wheels – tying the victim in to a large wooden wheel and pushed it
down a rocky hillside, dragging the victim’s flesh across a metal
spike.
4. Public Humiliation or Shamming – the purpose is to put the victim
into shame. Effected by the used of stocks and pillory, docking
stool, branding and shaving off hair.
5. Banishment or Transportation