CRM/LAW C7 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Sociological Perspectives, Social Forces, United States Equestrian Federation
26 May 2016
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Criminal justice system as a shorthand way of reerring to law enforcement, prosecucive offense, correction. View punishment in instrumental terms as an apparatus whose overriding purpose is management and control of crime. If what were doing doesn"t work we need to step things up. Examines normative foundations on which penal sysyem rests. Cultural and historical artifact shaped by ensemble of social forces and has significance and range of effectrs that reach. Punishment is m oral process, an accoasion for practical realization of moral valies. Preserve shared values and normative conventiuons on which social life is based. Reaffirm and strengrhn moral order; create social solidarity. Protests used to be immoral; changes over time. Treatment of punishment = sentiment-based; morality-affirming; solidarity producing. We all agree that what a person did is wrong and we are all in it together. Eonimoic and pikitcal determinants of punishment, role of punishment was to maintain the class power.
