CRM/LAW C7 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Ushas
8 Sep 2016
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The us has the highest rate of incarceration in the world (748/100,000) That"s what we are trying to figure out. Punishment is a ritualized, moral process, not an instrumental mechanism. Preserve shared values and normative conventions on which social life is based. Reaffirm and strengthen moral order; create social solidarity. Economic and political determinants of punishment, role of prisons in strategies of class rule, ways in which punishment serves class power. One element within wider strategy of controlling and managing the poor. Punishment is one way that the government controls us. Technologies of penal power and their mode of operation. New concern with individuality of offender - his soul rather than his body. Knowing and gaining knowledge and control over people"s individual selves. Discipline (obedient and useful) and normalization (desired standard of conduct) are the functions and purposes of punishment. From the central guard tower, you can see the prisoners, but the prisoners didn"t know when they were being watched.
