Sociology 2256A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Due Process

• School: Western University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: Sociology 2256A/B
• Professor: Jennifer Silcox

Document Summary

Break: crime control as industry, war on drugs: the prison industrial complex documentary (if time. Rehabilitation as the purpose of punishment: rule of law and due process, principle of less eligibility, outcomes of imprisonment, intended, unintended. Origin is classical criminology- deterrence is main factor, controlling the dangerous classes, control unruly population. Due process we have today was not around in early, classical criminology. Initially goal would be retribution and deterrence and now we have moved on to rehabilitation/ restorative. Principle of less eligibility- historical principle, standard of living in prison must be worse than the lowest stratum of the working class. Intended outcomes of prison: material deprivation, loss of freedom, autonomy, keeping people off the street, protecting the public, denial of heterosexual relationships, comprise security issues, labeled a number or an enemy, creates an other .