SOC 1500 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Albert Camus, Offender Profiling, Subculture

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 1500
• Professor: Graham Brown

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The longer someone stays inside a penitentiary cell, the less prepared, frankly, they are for the community howard sapers. A society is judged by the state of its prisons albert camus. Prisoners whipped, beaten public first custodial facility in canada: kingston penitentiary 1835. Moral architecture reflects themes of order and morality. Auburn model of strict silence, hard labour, and strong emphasis on religion. Rehabilitation, treatment: 1940s 60s seen as primary goal of corrections. 1970s get tough replaces rehabilitation as the underlying ideal of corrections (andrews and bonta 2010) In canada, rehabilitation nearly obsolete no more mandatory programs, services emphasis on incapacitation, deterrence. 1980s return to the notion that treatment can be effective in reducing recidivism. Recent (last couple decades) shift towards more punitive punishment. Politics plays a large role in jails. Types of federal correctional institutions total institutions/ status degradations. Highly structured environments in which all movements of the inmates are controlled 24 hours a day by staff.