AJ 2 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Shooting Of Oscar Grant

• School: Irvine Valley College
• Department: Administration of Justice
• Course: AJ 2
• Professor: mauney

Document Summary

When our values are destroyed, violated, we assert the fact that the perpetrator should be punished. Example, boston bombing, we felt violated, morally unjust by setting bomb off at the marathon, we feel justified, we feel better when we punish the bomber. Punishment is a social phenomenon, a tool of class control. Marx is thinking about the economy, thinking of industrialization, thinking about the working class, how they are in constant clash and tension with the upper class, those who own the factor, labor, property, etc. Profit off of prison, help control the labor population, prevent it from overfilling. Punishment as a political tactic, shaping power relations. Key terms: technologies of power, surveillance, disciplinary power, normalization. He sees society as socializing norms, elias. Officer johannes mehserle shot oscar grant because he was outraged by the curse words and disrespect grant displayed. Mehserle punished grant in order to reaffirm the moral order.