SOC301H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Solitary Confinement, Restorative Justice, Neoliberalism
Document Summary
Taking foucault"s theory and looks at prison discipline and says it"s not really how foucault says it is. He draws on how the prisoners were punished by the wardens (very cruel and harsh), discipline is hard to achieve in the prison, things didn"t work well in the prison. The prison is not working how it"s supposed to work, it"s not curing criminality or reducing recidivism. What"s the theory behind building a prison. A continuation of the history of the kingston penitentiary. How are they a problem that needs to be managed: what are you struggling with, what don"t you agree with why, ask: Why should the reader care about your argument? (so what?) Religion, solitary confinement, morality: correction and reform. It"s not really doing what it"s supposed to be doing. Related to morality (you deviated from the straight and narrow path, you can be corrected: psychologists, doctors, chaplains. New category of knowledge being produced by the institution.
