Learning Objectives

10.1 List the six main forms of punishment that were used prior to the rise of incarceration.

10.2 Describe the characteristics of early prisons in Europe and the United States.

10.3 Summarize the key aspects of parole, probation, and prison labor.

10.4 Analyze the rise of rehabilitation as a goal of incarceration.

10.5 Examine the social and political forces that led to modern mass incarceration.

10.6 Identify how interest groups have profited from mass incarceration.

10.7 Analyze the present and future of incarceration as a form of punishment.