Concept information
Preferred term
courts, corrections, punishments
Broader concept
Narrower concepts
- adversarial justice
- Alcatraz
- American Law Institute
- appeals
- appellate courts
- Attica
- bail and bond
- Bedford Hills Correctional Facility
- capital punishment
- chain gangs
- Chillicothe Correctional Institution
- citizen participation on juries
- civil rights legislation
- clemency
- Clinton Correctional Facility
- codification of laws
- colonial courts
- common law origins of criminal law
- community service
- Comstock Act
- confessions
- convict lease system
- corrections
- courts
- critical legal studies movement
- cruel and unusual punishment
- death row
- defendant's rights
- Department of Justice
- deportation
- discretionary decision making
- district attorney
- drug rehabilitation
- Eastern State Penitentiary
- electronic surveillance
- elmira prison
- execution
- famous trials
- federal prisons
- fingerprinting
- fish and game laws
- fornication laws
- gender and criminal law
- hanging
- history of the electric chair
- judges and magistrates
- juries
- jurisdiction
- law of slavery
- Leavenworth Federal Penitentiary
- legal counsel
- matteawan state hospital
- military courts
- 'new punitiveness'
- parole
- penitentiaries
- petty courts
- prisoners' rights
- prison labor
- prison privatization
- prison riots
- probation
- punishment within prison
- race, class, and criminal law
- reform movements in justice
- San Quentin State Prison
- segregation laws
- sentencing
- sentencing: indeterminate versus fixed
- sex offender laws
- shaming and shunning
- Sing Sing Correctional Facility
- suspect's rights
- theory of deterrence
- trials
- United States Supreme Court
- victim rights and restitution
- witness testimony
- women prisoners
- writ of habeas corpus
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URI
https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/courts,_corrections,_punishments
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