A major interest of criminologists is correction

criminal

caught, *tried=trial, and convicted

penalties consisted primarily of public humiliation, beatings or torture, banishment or exile, death, fines, or confiscation of property.

Imprisonment as a penalty

lesser offenses

persuade

uselessness

punishments

confinement

prisoner

offender

reformatories

inmates

probation and parole

the sentence of a selected convicted criminal is suspended

supervision

parole

conditional release from confinement

is granted

prisoner

an honest and trustworthy person

reformatory, offender, inmate, probation