CRIM 3656 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Sports League, Q Who, Moodle
18 Jan 2019
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Course introduction: thinking about how and why we punish. Part 1: theoretical & historical approaches to punishment (weeks 1-4: analytical paper due. Part 2: context and tactics of punishment (weeks 5-8) Part 3: punishment critiques & alternatives (weeks 10-12: final take home exam. Critical engagement with a range of interdisciplinary empirical and theoretical literatures . Punishment happens in : the family, the school, the sports league, society (the criminal justice system) Punishment is tied to our conception of justice . As a reaction to perceptions of injustice. It is driven by culture, and perceptions of sameness/difference. Because it reflects the values in which it occurs. Our taken for granted ways of punishing have relieved us of the need to think deeply about punishment, and what little thinking we are left to do is guided along certain narrowly formulated channels. (garland, 1990) How to get in touch with me.
