CRM/LAW C7 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Herbert Annesley Packer, Emor, Due Process

• School: UC-Irvine
• Department: Criminology, Law and Society
• Course: CRM/LAW C7
• Professor: Teresa Dalton

Document Summary

Lecture 3: thinking about punishment by prof. terry dalton. The term criminal justice system was coined by a presidential commission in the late 1960s as a shorthand way of referring to law enforcement, prosecution and defense, the judiciary, and corrections. Punishment as a technique of crime control. View punishment in instrumental terms as an apparatus whose overriding purpose is management and control of crime. Examines normative foundations on which penal system rests. Cultural and historical artifact shaped by ensemble of social forces and has significance and range of effects that reach well beyond population of criminals. Punishment is a moral process, occasion for practical realization of moral values. Preserve shared values and normative conventions on which social life is based. Economic and political determinants of punishment; role of prisons in strategies of class rule, ways in which punishment serves class power.