ATS1282 Lecture Notes - Economic Rationalism, Substance Abuse, Victimisation
21 Oct 2013
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Securely designed institutions that allow for control over all aspects within: includes control of movement, activity, possessions, controlled by the state, deprivation of liberty. Ultimate penalty: abolition of death penalty means prison is the most severe punishment in australia. Removal of chronic, dangerous and repeat offenders from society in an effort to control crime. The prison is used today as a kind of reservation, a quarantine zone in which purportedly dangerous individuals are segregates in the name of public safety. Prisoner limits/segregation: age limits (juvenile detention), gender (women"s prison). Functions: custodial: to detain people who are awaiting trial, coercive: to enforce other sentences that have not been compiled with (fines, etc, punitive: as a punishment in itself. Seemingly the sole aim of many prisons is incapacitation: by removing offenders from society they are incapable of committing further crimes, also should stop them from committing crimes from each other.
