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History
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Terminology
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Theories of punishment and criminality
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Overview
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Overview
- People Prisoner
- Imprisoned Imprisonment
- State State (polity)
- Punishment
- Crimes
- Pre-trial detention
- Criminal justice system Criminal justice
- Await trial Remand (detention)
- Guilty Guilt (law)
- Sentences Sentence (law)
- Political repression
- Authoritarian Authoritarianism
- Detain perceived opponents Political prisoner
- Political crimes
- Due process
- International law
- Administration of justice
- Prisoners of war
- Detainees
- Military prisons
- Prisoner-of-war camps Prisoner-of-war camp
- Internment camps
- Penal transportation
- Convicted Convict
- Indentured servitude
- British America
- Transportation Act 1717
- Criminal Law Act 1776
- 16 Geo. 3
- American Revolutionary War
Terminology
- Australia
- Maitland Gaol
- New South Wales
- Queensland
- South Australia
- Victoria Victoria (state)
- Western Australia
- Youth prisons Youth prison
- On remand Remand (court procedure)
- Canada
- New Zealand
- Papua New Guinea
- HM Prison Barlinnie
- Houses of correction House of correction
- Poor Relief Act 1601
- Summary jurisdiction
- Workhouses Workhouse
- American English
- Sheriff
- State State government
- Federal government Federal Bureau of Prisons
History
- Ancient Greek
- Plato
- Athenians
- Quarries
- Roman prisons Prisons in ancient Rome
- Mamertine Prison
- Ancus Marcius
- Sewer Sewerage
- Human waste
- Slavery
- Ergastula
- Songhai Songhai Empire
- Trial
- Middle Ages
- Power Power (social and political)
- Authority
- Galley slavery
- Michel Foucault
- Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison
- Penal systems Penology
- Humanitarian
- Reformists
- Disciplines Discipline and Punish
- Public execution
- Torture
- Bloody Code
- Revolution American Revolution
- Petty crimes
- Mass incarceration
- Utilitarianism
Staff
- Warden
- Prison guards
- Corrections officers Corrections Officer
- Teachers Teacher
- Reoffending
- Doctors Doctor (medicine)
- Clinicians Clinician
- Nurses Nurse
- Work release program Work release
- Prison labor Penal labor
Design and architecture
- Concertina wire
- Electrified fencing Electric fence
- Guard towers
- Motion sensors
- Dogs Police dog
- CCTV Closed-circuit television
- Restraints Physical restraint
Special types
- Juveniles Minor (law)
- Overcrowding
- Unlawful combatants Unlawful combatant
- Alcatraz Island
- American Civil War
- Administrative detention
- Psychiatric Psychiatry
- Mental disorders Mental disorder
Prison population
Economics of prisons
Social effects
- Overcrowding Prison overcrowding
- Prison gangs Prison gang
- Inmate code
- Prison riot
- Violence within prisons Prison violence
- Have difficulty finding work Employment discrimination against persons with criminal records
Theories of punishment and criminality
- Corrections
- Incapacitation Incapacitation (penology)
- Retributive justice
- Punitive damages
- Fines Fine (penalty)
- Community service
- Suspended sentences Suspended sentence
- Conditional sentence Conditional sentence (Canada)
- House arrest
- Curfews Curfew
- Anger management
- Judicial corporal punishment
- Conditional discharge Discharge (sentence)
- Restorative justice
- Prison abolition movement
- Libertarian socialism
- Anarchism
- Anti-authoritarianism
Crime within prisons
- Prosecuting Prosecutor
Recidivism
- Crime rates Crime statistics
- National Institute of Justice
- Lawrence W. Sherman
Sources
- ISBN ISBN (identifier)
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Nodes249
Edges248
Triples398
Avg. degree1.99
Density0.008032
Components1
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Prison
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related to Modern era · 22
Prison → Americas, Bloody Code, Christian, Discipline, Enlightenment, Europe, Foucault, France, From, He, Michel Foucault, Particularly, Prisons, Punish, Revolution, The, The Birth, The French, These, They
related to Military prisons and prisoner-of-war camps · 14
Prison → Alcatraz, Alcatraz Island, American, American Civil War, American Revolution, British, France, French Revolution, In, Military, Prisons, The British, They, United States
related to Staff · 13
Prison → Case, Governor, In, Medical, Oftentimes, Prisons, Religious, Security, Staff, Teachers, The Warden, These, Thus
related to Australia · 12
Prison → Australia, In Australia, Maitland Gaol, New South Wales, Officially, Queensland, South Australia, The, Those, Victoria, Western Australia, Youth
related to Theories of punishment and criminality · 12
Prison → Canada, Corrections, Deterrence, In, Incapacitation, Many, Rehabilitation, Retribution, The, Theories, These, United States
related to Youth detention facilities · 12
Prison → Besides, By, Crowding, It, Like, London, Many, New York City, Overcrowding, Prisons, The, United States
related to Internal · 10
Prison → Academic, By, For, Gaes, In, It, McGuire, Prisons, The, US
related to Economics of prisons · 9
Prison → As, In, Prisons, Some, The, These, Thirteenth Amendment, United States, United States Constitution
related to External · 9
Prison → According, Bureau, If, Justice Statistics, Many, Prisoners, The, They, United States
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Important terminology
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Entity relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples
Extracted RDF-like relationships with confidence and source. The table includes structured facts and lower-confidence contextual relations.| Subject | Predicate | Object | Confidence | Src |
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| schools | instance of | in diverse institutions | 0.80 | text |
| hospitals | instance of | in diverse institutions | 0.80 | text |
| and military barracks.From the late 17th century | instance of | in diverse institutions | 0.80 | text |
| during the 18th century | instance of | in diverse institutions | 0.80 | text |
| popular resistance to public execution | instance of | in diverse institutions | 0.80 | text |
| torture became more widespread both in Europe | instance of | in diverse institutions | 0.80 | text |
| in the United States | instance of | in diverse institutions | 0.80 | text |
| whipping | instance of | The first was based in Enlightenment ideas of utilitarianism and rationalism and suggested that prisons should simply be used as a more effective substitute for public corporal… | 0.80 | text |
| hanging | instance of | The first was based in Enlightenment ideas of utilitarianism and rationalism and suggested that prisons should simply be used as a more effective substitute for public corporal… | 0.80 | text |
| etc | instance of | The first was based in Enlightenment ideas of utilitarianism and rationalism and suggested that prisons should simply be used as a more effective substitute for public corporal… | 0.80 | text |
| building roads | instance of | the state of Pennsylvania passed a law that mandated that all convicts who had not been sentenced to death would be placed in penal servitude to do public works projects | 0.80 | text |
| forts | instance of | the state of Pennsylvania passed a law that mandated that all convicts who had not been sentenced to death would be placed in penal servitude to do public works projects | 0.80 | text |
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