SOC216H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Mug Shot, Mechanical And Organic Solidarity, Industrial Revolution
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Increased rates of imprisonment crime rates are going down and incarceration going up (know this chart not the numbers, just the trend) Instrumental vs. structuralism: law is an instrument to further their capitalism, repeat players (insurance company or the government who has repeat business in the court) vs. the one shotters (criminal defendants) Durkheim and law: things we all agree on as a society, punishment key part of how social solidarity happens in society, crime something that we have defined, not natural or given. Marx crimes are simply in the interest of the capitalist caste. Because crime has violated our social norms: crime causes moral outrage, commitment to our values is kin just like our religious commitments. No, it"s emotional: onlookers , durkheim says punishment change from being repressive to restitutive. In primitive societies, we punish through repressive laws. Punishment"s in the public square used to be a public thing.
