Sociology 2256A/B Lecture 4: Week 4
30 Jan 2019
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Rule of law and due process: idea that the law is created equally for everyone and imposed on everyone equally, nobody is above the law. Principle of less eligibility: historic principle about how prisons ought to look where condition are concerned, the standard of living in prison must be worse than the lowest strata of the working class. Things that the csc assumes or intended to happen when you incarcerate someone. Things that happen when you go to jail that was not intended to happen. Di cult to adapt to the outside if been in prison for so long. Prisons relieve us of the responsibility of seriously engaging with the problems of society, especially racism, and increasingly global capitalism . Most reforms: how to produce a better prison system. Levels of imprisonment not largely dictated by levels of crime. Imprisonment impacted more by cultural and market characteristics, including history and geography.
