CRIM 3656 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Circular Reasoning, Risk Management, Eye For An Eye
9 Feb 2016
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Today"s class: finish up from last week (decline of rehabilitative ideal and rise of community based format, legal philosophy and the rationales of punishment i. ii. Backward looking (desert based) rationales pf punishment. Forward looking (consequentialist) rationales of punishment: mid-term. Forging the nexus continued the 20th century and the rise of the treatment era. Change in character of justice (foucault): aim to know the offender in order to reform them. Aim to produce normal, conforming individuals vs. dispense punishment. 1957 annual report of the commissioner of penitentiaries. Program opportunities model (versus medical model): choice and responsibility of offender. 3 key justifications: more humane, less costly than prisons, more effective. Mixture of: program opportunities model, rehabilitation, public safety and control of offenders, risk management. Mid 2000s to present: individual (vs social) orientation (webster and doob, 2015, focus on simple punishment" (not community sanctions, not reintegration, not rehabilitation)
