CRM 4302 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Nils Christie, Netherlands, Mercantilism
5 May 2016
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Contemporary abolitionism evolved out of the counter cultural and political movements of 1960s and 1970s. Penal abolition: opposition to the use of incarceration as a means of punishment; however the term emerged during the 1980s. To get rid of prisons at first, but later recognize prisons are a form of oppression. To get rid of oppression in the prison system. Prison is the ultimate symbol of punishment. Carceral abolitionism: deprivation of liberty and diffusion of disciplinary norms. During the political movement of the 1960s and 1970s, academics began to seriously critique government and institutions. Called for the inclusion of prisoners, ex-convicts, and those affected by penal policy. Mathiesen"s analysis of the rise of prison . Prior to 1600s: all punishment are severe, publicly executed, and religious in origin on behalf of the monarch. Rothman suggests prisons emerged because of a change in how crime was view, it became a threat to the social order.
