CRCJ 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Rational Agent, Child Pornography, House Arrest

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Criminology and Criminal Justice
• Course: CRCJ 1000
• Professor: Nicolas Carrier

Document Summary

Variations in punishment disconnected to variation in crime. How corporal punishment was largely related to punishing the poor or unable. Have to show what you do to bodies if they disobey the rule of the land to please the king. 14-15th century: punishment was public, demonstration of the rulers power, rise in the death penalty. They way punishment is related to the crime is related to the economy. Rise in the death penalty mainly result of bodies weren"t valued. Severity of punishment will decline in a economy where people are. Punishment will be softer if labour is needed. When perceived that the economy is going down, politics are more likely to rely on cjs to show society is still in control. Instead of death penalty they were turned into slaves to serve in the. Cheaper to buy slaves than to transport convicts to the usa o o.