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CLASSICAL SCHOOL OF THOUGHT – is a broad
label for a group of thinkers of crime and
punishment in the 18th and early 19th
centuries. Its most prominent members, Cesare
Beccaria and Jeremy Bentham, shared the idea
that criminal behavior could be understood and
controlled as an outcome of a "human nature"
shared by all of us. Human beings were believed
to be hedonistic, acting in terms of their own self-
interest, but rational, capable of considering which
course of action was really in their self-interest.

CLASSIFICATION PROCESS – in prison
management, is a method by which diagnosis,
treatment planning and execution of the treatment
programs are coordinated in the individual case
study. It is a process of determining the needs and
requirement of prisoners for assigning them to
programs according to their needs and existing
resources.

CLASSIFIED – refers to assign information by one of
the four security classification categories – Top
Secret, Secret, Confidential, or Restricted.

CLASSIFYING – mentally determining the name of
subject or number of which a specific record is to
be filed is called classifying.

CLERK OF COURT – an officer of a court of justice
who has charge of the clerical part of its business,
who keeps its record and seal, issues process,
enters judgment and orders, gives certified copies
from the records and the like. While the clerk of
court belongs to the judicial as distinguished from

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