LS229 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Not Like That
11 Feb 2017
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Wages, intro of profesionsal staff, new smaller instituions and congical visits. Theories in prison riots - durkheim and merton theroies of anomie. Poweder keg - explosive powder keg stuff the musket of cannon and ignite it store poweder and handle carefully. Used for prison and thought to be explosive (prisons) Explosive situation and any kind of spark can lead to an explotion prison riot . Over crowding and especially max security . then get an explotion. And conditions got better and infact there was an increase even when situation got better. Opresive conditions and angry men which is nomral and its a constatn. Should be more riots because u have these volatile conditions but prison riots are rare events. Powder keg is neccesary conditions have to have angry people before get riot. Has to be incorporated with other theories to work. Explain the distribution of crime . lower socie economic classes.
