CRCJ 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Castration, Panopticism, Populism
14 Mar 2017
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Penology: the study of penalty- examines the structures and systems of punishment and asks what these have to tell us about the nature of particular social systems. Punishments as a set of socio-cultural practices. >what does the nature of punishment tell us about social change? (elias) > culturally no longer socially acceptable e. g. death penalty. Canada hanged at least 710 people since capital punishment was enacted in 1859 to the final hangings of arthur lucas and ronald turpin in 1962. Abolished capital punishment althogether on july 14th, 1976 by a vote of. Looked at again by house of commons in 1987, voting 148-127 in a favour of not reinstating the death penalty. Retrobutivists hold that punishment should not be a means to and end, but an end in itself. Consequentialists look for a means to an end. Retributivism is backward-looking rather than directly considering the future good.
