CRM/LAW C7 Lecture 25: Week 5 Lecture 1 - Crime Control in the 21st Century
8 Sep 2016
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Department
Course
Professor
Recent trends
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Where we might end up in the near future
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25% of the world's prisoner
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5% of the world's population
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We're #1!
Extent of mass incarceration
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Its racial, gender, and social class dimensions
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Its causes
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Reintroduction of prisoners into society -- they have lost skills
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Its consequences for society
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Crime Control in the 21st Century
READING - Platt: Social Insecutiry
The us has the largest, most expensive, and most punitive justice system in the world, yet also has
the most insecurity about crime in the West
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Irony
How did we arrive at this conjuncture of pervasive intitutional security and social insecurity?
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Question
As a result of the crisis of increase in crime in 70s
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CJ expenditures have skyrocketed.
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Main beneficiaries have been police departments
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Police Industrial Complex
Sophisticated, advanced, organized, centralized system where police departments behaved
more like militaries and companies
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Backed by government, introduced technology and managerial techniques of command and
control
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Policing the Crisis
Punishment is something that the government and private companies are doing
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Line between public and private functions has become blurred.
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"punishment for sale"
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Everywhere in the south
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A fact of the CJS at this point.
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Private prisons
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Privatization
Imprisonment has been marked by unprecedented growth
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Lots were moved to local jails
Where did these people go?
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Overcrowding in CA prisons
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Imprisonment redux
System has been applied in a way that disproportionately affects Aas
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African americans bear the brunt of law-and-order crackdown
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Apartheid Justice
Discourse of punishment and responsibility increasingly has replaced earlier emphasis on
prevention and rehabilitation.
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More and more juveniles being treated as adults
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Boot camps
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Criminalizing Youth
Week 5: Lecture 1 - Crime Control in the 21st Century
Tuesday, August 30, 2016
3:33 PM
Crim C7 Page 1
Document Summary
Week 5: lecture 1 - crime control in the 21st century. Where we might end up in the near future. Reintroduction of prisoners into society -- they have lost skills. The us has the largest, most expensive, and most punitive justice system in the world, yet also has the most insecurity about crime in the west. As a result of the crisis of increase in crime in 70s. Backed by government, introduced technology and managerial techniques of command and control. Sophisticated, advanced, organized, centralized system where police departments behaved more like militaries and companies. Punishment is something that the government and private companies are doing. Line between public and private functions has become blurred. African americans bear the brunt of law-and-order crackdown. System has been applied in a way that disproportionately affects aas. Discourse of punishment and responsibility increasingly has replaced earlier emphasis on prevention and rehabilitation. More and more juveniles being treated as adults.
