CRM 2306 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Solitary Confinement, Medical Model, Panopticon

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Criminology
• Course: CRM 2306
• Professor: Kate Fletcher

Document Summary

Imprisonment as punishment (the prison in contemporary society) Prison reform has always existed along side prisons as institutions. Prison themselves are not inert (doesn"t move) institutions, they change more or less but they continue to persist. Prison reform(changes) occurs in consort with the very functioning of the prison itself. Prison reform is bound to the prison itself. This indicates that the prison is flawed because if the prison is constantly changing then there must be something wrong with it, or it doesn"t work very well. So corporal punishment (beatings, whips, flogging, caning), mutilation, branding and public spectacles (stocks and pillory where people would throw things at you). People could be sentenced to these things later on in prison. There was also execution where people paid for their crimes with their life. The british also starting transporting criminals to the colonies to help build the colonies.