CRM 4302 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Anomie, Behaviorism, Abusive Power And Control

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Criminology
• Course: CRM 4302
• Professor: Vajmeh Tabibi

Document Summary

Cohen"s master patterns: two transformations in controlling deviance in western societies, first was real and transparent, second was opaque, not real, the boundaries were blurred. The force for change is reform" motivated by benevolence and humanitarianism. More resources, more classification, more experts and by the application of science, the system could be humanized. John howard society: the decline of punishment involving the public infliction of pain, away from the mind: back to justice, neoclassicism, behaviourism, focus on act rather than actor, move away from pathology. Cognitive belief: based on common sense and empirical research, prison and juvenile institution are ineffective. Or some part of it: each part of the dm worked out its own version, diversion movement, community justice proponents, anarchism, nothing works critique. Inconsistencies, contradiction and unintended consequences: the original structure have become stronger, state"s reach have intensified, experts and professionals have proliferated.