Sociology 2256A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Bloody Code, Medicalization, Profit Motive
20 Mar 2016
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Lex talionis: eye for an eye (code of hammurabi) Crimes were against the king and god: make an amende honourable to god through admission of guilt and remorse during punishment. Increase in populaion and crime: brought on the bloody code. Hulks: decommissioned war ships to hold prisoners. Bridewells: correcional insituions/workhouse in the 16th century. Support for corporal punishment declined (led to over crowding) Free will, hedonism and the social contract beccaria: punishment was only jusiied to protect the social contract and to deter future transgressions in behaviour punishment to be proporional to the crime. Panopicon (bentham) 1787: constant surveillance without inmate knowing they were being watched. Religious instrucion so they can relect on past acions return to society a reformed man. Isolaion by night, prisoners labour and eat together by day: silence 24/7. Men fell into crime because they didn"t learn the personal/social discipline that religion gave and hadn"t learned how to curb their basic insincts.
