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After completing this chapter, you should be able to:
- Summarize the purposes of confinement in Europe before it became a major way of punishing criminals.
- Describe how offenders were punished before the large-scale use of confinement.
- Explain why confinement began to be used as a major way of punishing offenders in Europe.
- Describe the recent trends in the use of incarceration in the United States.
- List some of the characteristics of the incarcerated population in the United States.
- Describe how incarceration facilities are structured, organized, and administered by the government in the United States.
- Name some of the common types of correctional facilities in the United States.
- Identify some of the procedures that institutions employ to maintain security and order.
- List the services and programs that are commonly available to inmates.
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