ACR102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Don Dale Youth Detention Centre, Immigration Detention, Cesare Beccaria
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Classical school: cesare beccaria, jeremy bentham, the (cid:858)pa(cid:374)opti(cid:272)o(cid:374)(cid:859) (cid:894)(cid:271)e(cid:374)tha(cid:373)(cid:895), (cid:449)here priso(cid:374)ers are sur(cid:448)eilled (cid:449)ithout k(cid:374)o(cid:449)i(cid:374)g (cid:858)pe(cid:374)ite(cid:374)tiaries(cid:859) -places of offender to be patient. I(cid:373)priso(cid:374)(cid:373)e(cid:374)t (cid:449)as pre(cid:272)eded (cid:271)(cid:455) (cid:858)(cid:449)orkhouses(cid:859) (cid:449)here priso(cid:374)s (cid:449)ere used to (cid:272)o(cid:374)trol the socially threatening eg. poor and homeless: principle of less eligibility- prison conditions need to be harder than those experienced by the poorest people in honest society. Positivist school: auguste comte (founder of sociology), cesare lombroso (founder, italian school of criminology, prisons as place of punishment or for punishment, reformers thought that harsh conditions broke people, positivists think with right conditions they can be rehabilitated. Counselling, education, reintegration, repentance, can make them better people when released into society. Recidivism rates generally between 30-45%, will reoffend within 12 months of their release. Proverbial revolving door: they get out but their prospects are lowered, need support there. Reliance on prison has increased in last decades.
