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LillyoftheVally -> RE: Support Amnesty International - Buy A Torture Device (2/6/2010 4:23:30 AM)
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ORIGINAL: slaveboyforyou
Nope, actually the concept of confinement being the punishment rather than what happened while you awaited punishment is a fairly modern idea. Guess who started it? AMERICANS! Yep, that's right. The Quakers in Pennsylvania came up with the concept of the penitentary. Penitentaries were places to give penitance. Before we had prisons, most punishments were either death, torture, dismemberment, or humiliation. In England, pick-pocketing was a hangable offense. The history of corrections is rather fascinating. (I started off as a criminal justice major in college, and later took it as my minor.)
Changed with the notion of psychology. Initially the body was punished because it was the body that was to blame, when people started to think it was mental then punishment changed, along with the changing face of mental health care. I think the old forms of punishment are fascinating, the idea of punishment based on the crime, a scolds bridle for someone disturbing the peace
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