SOC371H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Misdemeanor, Official Statistics, Private Police
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The changing penal landscape and the punitive turn. Go over a quick review of foucault and discipline and punish. Discuss the changes in punishment since the introduction of the prisons. Explore the rise and reasons for hyper- incarceration in the usa. Discuss how probation also works to fuel incarceration and to net-widen the justice system. Corporal punishment birth of prison rehabilitation fall of rehab punitive turn. Discipline is about managing the mind not physically punishing the body. Knowing the individual is crucial for transforming the soul. Constant surveillance aids in knowledge production and normalization. Community sanctions are much more common and much more likely to be. There are more sanctions, more punishments, etc. given out as a prison sentence. If we change how you think, you will change your behaviour on your own. Involves the interaction between controlling the body and the institution of power. We are producing subjects that do something.
