Chapter 10 End of Chapter Quiz

The History of Control and Punishment
. This 19th-century prison system was characterized by the separate-and-silent system.

. This prison reformer's system was based on the ideas that brutality and cruelty debase not only the subject, but also society.

. This reformer advocated the concept of a completely open institution in which inmates could gain experience in trust and avoiding temptation.

. How was inmate work in the prison deemed beneficial?

. Which is one of the circumstances that led to the advocacy of rehabilitation as a desirable goal for corrections?

. This argument is at the foundation of support for capital punishment.

. This philosophy asserts that an offender who commits a heinous crime deserves death.

. Patterns of discrimination in how the death penalty is administered suggest that this factor determines whether the death penalty is applied.

. This case set guidelines for what constitutes cruel and unusual punishment in prison and the circumstances under which prison officials are liable for the mistreatment of prisoners.

. In this case, the U.S. Supreme Court banned the execution of the insane.

. Work has long been considered rehabilitative for inmates and cost-effective for prisons

. A condemned prisoner's understanding of the execution is not a reason for limiting executions.

. Only a small percentage of those who commit murder are ever executed

. The drug combination used in lethal injections was developed by a team of doctors and chemists.

. Perhaps the most influential early carceral institution in the United States was Boston's Cherry Street Jail.

. The Pennsylvania Quakers suggested that incarceration and hard labor were preferable to corporal punishment.

. The first institution to resemble a modern penitentiary was New York's Auburn Prison.

. The Eastern State Penitentiary was characterized by the congregate-and-silent system.

. The courts have always specified exactly which constitutional rights, such as the expectation of privacy, inmates forfeited in prison.

. The convict lease system, which allowed major landowners to employ inmates to do backbreaking work at minimal wages, was never used extensively anywhere.

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