SOC313H1 Lecture Notes - Welfarism, Mandatory Sentencing, Deinstitutionalisation
Document Summary
Practices like ideas change over time the history of control practices is not linear, it"s messy. Has been dominant since the 1890s to 1970s - the mid 20th century in. Poor houses and policing as we know it. Up to that point, policing as an organized force on the streets wasn"t around; crime control wasn"t put in the hands of this separate institution. Police forces, fire departments, night watches, etc. in response to how to deal with these social issues. A lot of these plans to help the poor were developed by the well-to-do who wanted to fix people it"s this coming together of social control and the welfare system. Victorian penalty vs. modern penalty for victorians, justice or crime control, was about a clearly laid out hierarchy of punishments to fit the crimes; making the punishment commensurate with the crime.
