CRM 3308 Lecture 2: Lecture 2
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Penal modernism (welfarism: promise of social engineering, ex: medical model, people who were poorly disadvantaged. try to fix them either individually or through the organization they were with. This would be done by social policies, economic policies. Decarceration/deinstitutionalization movement: programming prolongs the amount of time until people recidivate, putting people in these places would not rehabilitate them, and they ability to return back to normal would be diminished. Denial ->reassertion of myth: crime control assertion was unsustainable, difficulty to fulfill these promises, government denies limitation of its ability to retain complete control over crime and crime control. Adaptations: on the other hand, there is a recognition that it cannot do it all, so it adapts, in these adaptations, you see seemingly new assertions of the state. Criminologies of the other : safety, security, law and order, first type of other stigmatized other, they are as follows: