correction

• Corrections​ -

  • is a branch of Criminal Justice System concerned with the custody, supervision and rehabilitation of criminal offenders.​

  Corrections

  * is the  pillar with the primary objective of helping convicted offenders to reform and be rehabilitated to prepare him for his eventual release to the community after service of his sentence. ​
• Institutional Corrections refers to the institutionalized form of rehabilitation, such as prisons and jails. On the other hand, Non-Institutional Corrections, also called community-based corrections, refers to the alternative forms of corrections done outside of the institutions for corrections. ​
• Penology​

  • derived from the Latin word “POENA” which means pain or suffering.​
  • It is a study of punishment formed from crime or of criminal offenders. 
• Penology

  • It includes the study of control and prevention of crime through punishment of criminal offender. ​
• • Penology is a division of criminology that deals with prison management, treatment of offenders and concerned with the philosophy and practice of society in its effort to repress criminal activities. ​
• Punishment (Legal Sense)​

  • individual redress or personal revenge. Therefore, it is defined as the redress of the state against an offending member.​
• Punishment (General Sense)​

  • It is the infliction of some sort of pain on the offender for violating the law. ​
• Penalty​

  • the suffering that is inflicted by the state for the transgression of the law. ​