Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)

1. The correctional enterprise is primarily about punishment.
2. Penology is the study of the penal code.
3. The practice of brutal punishment and arbitrary legal codes began to wane with the
beginning of a period historians call the Enlightenment.
4. The positivist school was founded by Beccaria.
5. Lex Talionis refers to the principle of “an eye for an eye.”


1. TRUE
2. FALSE
3. TRUE
4. FALSE
5. TRUE

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What will be an ideal response?

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