SOC371H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Welfarism, Mandatory Sentencing, Retributive Justice
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Explain why there has been a punitive turn and give 2 examples of how punitiveness is expressed. Discipline is about managing the mind not physically punishing the body. Discipline involves the body, knowledge, and power. Knowing the individual is crucial for transforming the soul. Constant surveillance aids in knowledge production and normalization: panopticon is the best model for this. Rehabilitation was part of post-war prosperity, rising welfare state, economic security, and social solidarity: they system was doing well, thus they had money to spend on social programs, around the 1950"s and 1960"s. Rehabilitation and penal welfarism are the same thing. State is responsible for the control and punishment. State had monopoly over punishment criminal subjects are seen as in need rather than guilty. Retributive justice was counter-productive, offenders could be reformed: eye for eye is not going to be productive. Crime is seen as a social problem manifested through individual action, need to address social conditions: eg.
