Chapter 1 Summary 
Name/Date: Michael Walker
Chapter #: One
Chapter Title: What is corrections?
1. Chapter Summary
Seventy percent of individuals involved in the correctional system are not institutionalized but rather involved in the community with some form of probation and or parole. (4)
State expenditures more than tripled during the period of 1982-2001.
According to studies, it is predicted that children born in the early 2000’s will go to prison at some point in their lives. (4)
Statistics show that at least 1/3 of the African American male population in their twenties are involved with some type of correctional control.(5) According to statistics about 7.5 million Americans are at this time in the correctional system in some way.(5)
When it comes to social order people must be punished for breaking the rules. (8)
Offense, guilt, and punishment are the three basic concepts of Western Criminal Law.(8)
Laws are created by state legislature and congress. (8)
When it comes to corrections, it covers all the legal reactions of society to some illegal behavior. (9)
There are twin goals when it comes to corrections and they are punishment and protection.(10)
When one process affects another it is coined interconnectedness.
Outside forces play a major role with correctional agencies such as public opinion, fiscal constraints, and the law. (11)
Feedback provides growth so that the system can learn, grow, and improve. The downside is that the system has some issues with gaining useful feedback. (13) There are 102 federal prisons and 1,719 state prisons. (14)
Banishment, corporal punishment, the pillory, and death were very common during the Colonial Period. In which jails were rarely used.(15)
4 Principles were the foundation of the Penitentiary Act of 1779.(16)
A secure and sanitary building
Inspection to ensure that offenders followed the rules.
Abolition of fees changed offenders for their food.
A reformatory regime.
Institutions for solitary confinement came because of the
Chapter #: One
Chapter Title: What is corrections?
1. Chapter Summary
Seventy percent of individuals involved in the correctional system are not institutionalized but rather involved in the community with some form of probation and or parole. (4)
State expenditures more than tripled during the period of 1982-2001.
According to studies, it is predicted that children born in the early 2000’s will go to prison at some point in their lives. (4)
Statistics show that at least 1/3 of the African American male population in their twenties are involved with some type of correctional control.(5) According to statistics about 7.5 million Americans are at this time in the correctional system in some way.(5)
When it comes to social order people must be punished for breaking the rules. (8)
Offense, guilt, and punishment are the three basic concepts of Western Criminal Law.(8)
Laws are created by state legislature and congress. (8)
When it comes to corrections, it covers all the legal reactions of society to some illegal behavior. (9)
There are twin goals when it comes to corrections and they are punishment and protection.(10)
When one process affects another it is coined interconnectedness.
Outside forces play a major role with correctional agencies such as public opinion, fiscal constraints, and the law. (11)
Feedback provides growth so that the system can learn, grow, and improve. The downside is that the system has some issues with gaining useful feedback. (13) There are 102 federal prisons and 1,719 state prisons. (14)
Banishment, corporal punishment, the pillory, and death were very common during the Colonial Period. In which jails were rarely used.(15)
4 Principles were the foundation of the Penitentiary Act of 1779.(16)
A secure and sanitary building
Inspection to ensure that offenders followed the rules.
Abolition of fees changed offenders for their food.
A reformatory regime.
Institutions for solitary confinement came because of the