SOC205H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Type B Cipher Machine, Mass Incarceration, Penology
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Big debt to early social theory, critical criminologists, marxist scholars, and. Key problem: punishment cannot be understood by reference to crime alone. We can"t understand it by looking at just what causes crime. Punishment has less to do with crime then other things going on. Neither quality or quantity of punishment correlates neatly with crime rates/types. Punishment both shapes and is shaped by society (culture, politics, economics, etc. ) Durkheim punishment strengthens social solidarity; as society develops, it doesn"t need severe punishment for solidarity. We turn to punishment when the social bonds between people are weak. Homecoming in the us - you feel pride and the connection around you with other people. In told times, when someone broke the law society would come together to prosecute them. Marxists punishment is used by the haves/powerful to secure their place in social structure (structural) or to extract wealth (economic) Punishment is shaped by power dynamics in society.
