CRCJ 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Paul Bernardo, Mass Incarceration, Drug Court

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

Document Summary

14-15th centuries rise in use of death penalty. Bodies of criminals are seen as useful instead of killing them, we make them slaves to increase the power of the nation. Shift and development of the death penalty and punishment is connected to the development of colonialism and capitalism. Looking at punishment historically there is no rea dann to think of punishment as being just a response to crime. We see that variations in punishment are not related to variation of crime. New forms of punishment (increased severity, etc) is not necessarily a response to changes in crime. We cannot assume the ways in which we punish is a mirror of crime. Time when rulers used criminals as slaves to maximize colonial powers. Death penalty is connected to a project of the rulers to say all that which is crime i have to deal with it - to show the might of the sovereign, punishment is brutal in nature.