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The prison as we know it is a social institution or an agent of the state as Gresham Sykes calls it, that houses and confines convicted individuals (the increasing amount of wrongful convictions have proved that they all are not criminals) serving sentences of one year or more. Due to mass media and the prevalence of fictional crime dramas, misconceptions of prison and prison life has heavily influenced the public consensus on the actualities of life behind bars. Moreover,…

The 19th century physician and proclaimed "father of criminology" Cesare Lombroso, became prominent after his published book The Criminal Man. Lombroso's theory of the atavistic criminal influenced research and studies of human behavior and crime causation throughout the nineteenth and early twentieth century. Cesare Lombroso, a major theorist in the positivist school of criminology, looked mainly at the biological and environmental factors when determining causes of criminal…