SOC 1500 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Remand (Detention), Indictable Offence, Closed-Circuit Television

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 1500
• Professor: Michelle Dumas

Document Summary

Fast food economy is spilling into other parts. Efficiency: the fastest way and best way to get from a to b (ex. drive thru) Trying to get more people through the system as quickly as possible. Sending people to prison is more common, it is effective. Calculability: quality, emphasizing size, quantity is a measure of quality. The more people we send to prison for the longer amounts of time indicates the quality and that we are getting tough on crime . Predictability: you know what to expect from one time and one place to another, no surprises. You commit a crime and we know what punishment you"re going to get. Control: humans replaced with non-humans, surveillance (people, customers, employees) Inefficiency+poor quality (people are in prisons for nonviolent crimes and prisons are overcrowded) Three trends: new discourse, new objectives, new techniques. Mandatory life in prison sentence for a third time felony crime (indictable offence)