SOC 3740 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Rattan, Criminology
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Peter moskos is an american criminologist: has experience as a baltimore beat cop and a professor of criminal justice, this experience has shown him just how immorally counterproductive, ruinously expensive, and profoundly stupid his country"s prison system is. Even if he tells his fellow americans this, few listen, most just want to see criminals punished. In response to this, moskos started suggesting that flogging is a better punishment: he aimed to shake up people, and alter their thinking. Locking up a drug dealer just creates a job opening: if prison is ineffective as a deterrent, it certainly does punish, but not in a way good for either prisoners or society. Many cons, especially those in prolonged solitary, emerge psychologically damaged. Some even come out more well-schooled by fellow inmates in advanced criminal techniques.
