Institutional correction

• Penology otherwise known as penal science
• A science that deals with the study of punishment for crime or criminal offenders.
• Classical Doctrine Influence includes the study of control and prevention of crime through punishment of criminal offenders.
• PENOLOGY

  It is actually a division of criminology that deals with prison management and the treatment of offenders and concerned itself with the philosophy and practice of society in its effort to repress criminal activity.
• Correction

  The branch of the administration of criminal justice charged with their responsibility for the custody supervision reformation and rehabilitation of the convicted offender.
• Two forms of correctional treatments of criminal offenders.

  1. Institutional treatment or correction
  2. Community based treatment or non-institutional treatment
• 13th century- Securing Sanctuary

  In the 13th century a criminal could avoid punishment by claiming refuge in a church for a period of 40 days
• England (1468)

  Torture, as a form of punishment become prevalent
• 16th century

  Transportation of criminals in england was authorized. At the end of this century, Russia and other European countries follow this system this practice was abandoned in 1835
• 17 to 18th century

  Death penalty become prevalent as a form of punishment