Correctional Institutions

earliest-known comprehensive statements of prohibited behavior currently known

law of retaliation- the principle that punishment should correspond in degree and kind to the offense

the law of the civil society as distinguished from church law

"man money" or money paid to relatives of a murdered person or to the victim of a crime to compensate them and to prevent a blood feud

the right to be tried in an ecclesiastical court, where punishments were less severe than those meted out by civil courts, given the religious focus of penance and salvation

forced rowing of large ships or galleys; primarily a practice among the ancient greeks and romans; viewed by queen Elizabeth I as being more merciful than other civil punishments

a detention facility that combined the major elements of a workhouse, poorhouse, and penal industry by both disciplining individuals who were housed in the facility and setting them to work

first house of correction- when

the practice of transplanting individuals convicted of crimes from the community to another region or land, often a penal colony

where did England send convicted individuals