CRM 3301 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Governmentality
11 Jan 2017
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Reasons why populations are governed in particular ways: mentalities of governments. How conduct is shaped by various authorities. Any attempt to guide or shape behavior. Includes: laws, policies, practices or private, municipal, provincial, federal levels of state. Attends to programs practices of police, correctional personnel, legal professionals, citizens and criminals. Seek to shape and control conduct defined as criminal. Feature: attention to discourse of the discursive realm rather than to what is known as reality, presumption that governance is always accompanied by the production of knowledge. Gathering stats about known offenders to create profiles of potential criminals: governmentality is neither a theory of society nor a theory of governance or power. Justifications for how conduct is conducted and are based on problematizing conduct in order to change that behavior in some manner: programs. Plans for acting on some element of social conduct. Programs are created to make things better . Means through which rationalities are carried out.
