HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT OF PRISONERS

Historical Development and Social Psychological Elements of Prisoners



Abstract

The paper discusses the history and origin of prisons, the emergence of the prison took place with a solitary confinement in the treatment of delinquency. Public executions were held in places more and more discreet to be withdrawn completely from the sight of the crowd. The prison was then the ambition to change offenders to adapt to normal life in society. The idea was that the strong effect, give an adequate form to offenders who have "pushed through". The prison today is a legacy of these ideals are not mutually exclusive, the prison is justified more or less according to the places and periods in terms of these four ideals of confinement.

Historical Development and Social Psychological Elements of Prisoners

Introduction

The fact that most human group has locked up, stigmatized and discredited a small set of its own people did that from the origins of the prison debates and controversies exist about the existence of the prison. Parallel from the beginning of their evolution have emerged existential multitudinous and various theories as disparate as mixed. Well rightly, Anis comes to proclaim, "The criminal law has always been in crisis". These reproaches to prison, in turn arises from the most varied positions ideological basis from which the most atavistic attitudes considered to prison as an economic loss for the group.

The prison appears relatively late, as it was understood that held no generate any profit and instead are parasites that must be fed. Therefore, look for other solutions such as slavery, physical abuse, mutilation or death. With many basic approaches nuances prison have not changed and in the background are diluted with their own schools in the teleology of right (Marshall, 1999).

History and Evaluation of Prison

The prison is an institution and has been used since ancient times, to fulfill the function of ensuring offenders so that they do not evade the legal consequences of their antisocial actions. Just as a form of punishment to achieve correction and repentance of offenders.

Very often the use of jail and prison terms interchangeably, but we must say that prison is just the place for the custody of offenders for the duration of the process to determine their potential criminal liability, and other side the prison is the place assigned for the execution of a sentence awarded by a sentence pronounced by the court concerned. What was at first designated as a prison, was nothing more than a place intended for the care and custody of prisoners, and to restrict the freedom of the same. Later it was known by the name of Prisons, this due to the evolution of a custodial sentence, the prison was intended for prisoners repentance for having transgressed a rule of criminal nature.

It is now known as Centers for Social Rehabilitation, which in addition to seeking the repentance of the offenders, seeking reintegration into society of inmates once compurgator off (Hagedorn, ...