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Criminal Justice
Undergraduate 2
01/30/2013

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But in the 1800s
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A major change happened in the US and Europe.
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Being made to devise a...
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Rational reform model in criminal sanctions.
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With the development
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Of the penitentiary in the 1830s
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By the 1900s
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Punishments were carried out within prisons or in the community under the super vision of correctional staff.
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The earliest known
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Comprehensive statements of prohibited behavior appear in the Sumerian Law of mesopotamia and the code of hammurabi.
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Before that time
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Europeans viewed responses to crime as a private affair because with private affair father would punish.
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Wrongs were avenged
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in accordance to lex talionis. Eye for an eye.
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The Lex Talionis principle was the
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Foundation of the angelo saxon law until the time of the Norman conquest of England.
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During the middle ages
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The secular law of England and Europe was organized according to the feudal system.
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In England by the year 1200
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A system of Wergild,or payment of money as compensation for a wrong to reduce blood feud.
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Wergild
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Owe money or payment.
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The emphasis of the Protestant
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Reformation on importance of house of corrections. also first called work house.
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Out of these concerns
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The house of correction, or "work house" was born.
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Transportation
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Kicking a criminal out of the country to a different one, some bad, some okay.
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Because punishment was considered
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a powerful general deterrent, authorities carried out sanctions in the market square for all to see.
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The enlightenment of the
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New ideas based on rationalism, the importance of the individual, and the limitations of government replaced traditional assumptions.
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Jeremy Bentham
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Utilitarian, reform leader.
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Cesare Beccaria
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Classical school of criminological thoughts
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John Howard
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Was a sheriff and big in the penitentiary reform.
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