ADMJ 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 32: Erving Goffman, Mattress, Substance Abuse
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Three main functions of detention (pugh 1968: custodial detaining those awaiting trial or sentencing, coercive encourage cooperation with proceedings, punitive as punishment. Prisons were initially for debtors and those awaiting proceedings. Later used as punishment: along with change from punishment of the body to punishment of the mind, further development from retribution to reform/rehabilitation. Overall place of discipline, surveillance and containment. Nsw 1890s: those serving less than 14 days only given bread and water, those serving less than 6 months made to sleep on a plank bed with no mattress. Un minimum rules for the treatment of prisoners (1958) Commonwealth government"s obligation to report on compliance. Australia"s systems influenced by different political traditions. Incapacitation depriving the offender of the capacity to commit crimes usually through detention in prison. Deterrence punishment that is so repugnant that neither the punished offender nor others will commit the crime in the future.
