A convict is "a person found guilty of a crime and sentenced by a court" or "a person serving a sentence in prison",[1] sometimes referred to in slang as simply a "con". In the sociological field, crime is the breach of a rule or Law for which some governing authority or force may ultimately prescribe a Punishment Slang is the use of highly informal Words and expressions that are not considered standard in the speaker's Dialect or Language. [2] After a conviction, convicts often become prisoners. In Law, a conviction is the Verdict that results when a Court of law finds a Defendant guilty of a Crime. A prison, penitentiary, or correctional facility is a place in which individuals are physically confined or interned and usually deprived of a range of Persons convicted and sentenced to non-custodial sentences often are not termed "convicts". In Law, a sentence forms the final act of a Judge -ruled process and also the symbolic principal act connected to his function An ex-convict (or short: ex-con) is a person who has been released from prison.
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Historical usage
A particular use of the term in the English-speaking world is to refer to the huge numbers of criminals who clogged British gaols in the 18th and early 19th century. Jail, or gaol (especially in Canada, Australia and NZ[http //www Initially many were sent to the American colonies as cheap labour, but the War of Independence brought that solution to an end. In this article the inhabitants of the thirteen colonies that supported the American Revolution are primarily referred to as "Americans" with occasional references to "Patriots"
British convicts were transported to the Province of Georgia between 1733 and the American revolution. The Province of Georgia (also Georgia Colony) was one of the Southern colonies in British North America. In this article the inhabitants of the thirteen colonies that supported the American Revolution are primarily referred to as "Americans" with occasional references to "Patriots" After this, convicts could no longer be transported to America and Britain looked to the newly discovered east coast of Australia to use as a penal colony. Convicts were transported to Australia in 1788 from the very start of European settlement and were used as labourers in five out of the six major colonies. For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic Australia topics. Transportation was eventually abolished in 1868. In Australia, convicts have come to be key figures of social and cultural mythology and historiography. The word mythology (from the Greek grc μυθολογία mythología, meaning "a story-telling a legendary lore" British convicts were also sent to Canada and India. Country to "Dominion of Canada" or "Canadian Federation" or anything else please read the Talk Page India, officially the Republic of India (भारत गणराज्य inc-Latn Bhārat Gaṇarājya; see also other Indian languages) is a country France also sent convicts to French Guiana and New Caledonia. This article is about the country For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic France topics. French Guiana (Guyane française officially fr ''Guyane'' is an Overseas department (French département d'outre-mer, or DOM) of France For the former North American fur-trading district see New Caledonia (Canada, and for the Scottish colony in Panama see Darien scheme. Russian criminals who were shipped to Siberia can arguably be regarded as convicts. Russia (Россия Rossiya) or the Russian Federation ( Rossiyskaya Federatsiya) is a transcontinental Country extending Siberia (Сиби́рь Sibir) is the name given to the vast region constituting almost all of Northern Asia and for the most part currently serving 1. “The convict system has been rightly called a ‘Gigantic Lottery’. The element of luck was greatly increased by the adoption of the assignment system, whereby many convicts were assigned to individual settlers to act as servants, shepherds, hutkeepers, or workers in some other capacity. ”
Additionally, convicts were sent to unsettled Australia to form a prison colony by Europe due to overflow.
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Notes
- ^ Webster's New World Dictionary of the American Language, p. During the late 18th and 19th centuries large numbers of Convicts were transported to the various Australian penal colonies by the British government Transportation or penal transportation refers to the deporting of Convicted Criminals to a Penal colony, for example by France Convict leasing was a system of Penal labour instituted in the American South after the emancipation of slaves by the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States 311 (2d Coll. Ed. 1978).
- ^ Webster's New World Dictionary of the American Language, p. 292 (2d Coll. Ed. 1978).
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convict
-verb
- (transitive) To find guilty of a crime as a result of legal proceedings.
-noun
- A person convicted of a crime by a judicial body.
- A person transported to a penal colony.
- A common name for the sheepshead (Archosargus probatocephalus), owing to its black and stripes.
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