Historical Evolutions of Punishment in Light of Industrialization

Punishment is of the subjects that has close relationship to industrial evolutions. Penal systems, equivalent to the industrialization of society and appearance of new technologies, are exposed to different transformations. Punishments such as imprisonment, fines, withdrawal of tranquility, forced labor and new methods of execution, more or less, is affected by industrialization and are seriously made ups and downs, as a result of complexity and evolutions of societies. So, in the historical consideration of punishments, it may not neglect the role of industry and technology therein and reduce their evolutions to merely development of philosophical and mental human thinking. The article is to assess long effect of industrialization on the punishment, by an historical review on evolutions of punishments, particularly its some kinds, and establish the theory by drawing and reviewing some historical samples.