CRJU 591C Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Counterculture
5 Jul 2018
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Incarceration Effects – Part 1 (Effects of Interacting with the Criminal Justice System)
Lecture Outline
Deterrence: basis of criminal justice system (ideology)
3 components Increase
1. Swiftness
2. Certainty
3. Severity
General deterrence: wants punishments to deter other individuals from committing crime.
Specific deterrence: aims to punish a specific individual in hopes that they won’t reoffend.
Sometimes people observe individuals get away with stuff then individuals themselves or the
same individual commits act
Risk of apprehension: law enforcement responsible
Severity and punishment: courts
Deterrence is largely ineffective. Only element that does show support is certainty argument.
Dan Neegan? Research on certainty.
Labeling
Primary Deviance→ Formal Label→ Alters one’s self-concept →
→ Limit conventional opportunities → Secondary Deviance
→Movement into a deviant subculture →
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Document Summary
Incarceration effects part 1 (effects of interacting with the criminal justice system) General deterrence: wants punishments to deter other individuals from committing crime. Specific deterrence: aims to punish a specific individual in hopes that they won"t reoffend. Sometimes people observe individuals get away with stuff then individuals themselves or the same individual commits act. Only element that does show support is certainty argument. Prisonization: idea that prisoners take on the customs and culture of the penitentiary including the criminalist ideology of the prison community. Peer reinforcement of antisocial norms: gang activity that goes on in prison. Syke"s 5 pains of imprisonment: 1995: deprivation of liberty, deprivation of autonomy, deprivation of goods and services, deprivation of heterosexual relationships, deprivation of security. Institutional dependency: sampson and laub: have trouble actually getting used to or adapting to regular environment when they get out.
