CRCJ 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Immanuel Kant, Eastern State Penitentiary, Consequentialism
27 Feb 2018
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14th-15th centuries = rise in the use of death penalty: connected to the power of the sovereign, to show they"re in command. Increased severity in punishment is not nessicarily a response to crime. Rusche and kircheimer, punishment and social structure (1939: relation b/t punishment and availability of labour, punishment tends to be gentler when there is no economic crisis among the elite. In the uk, they would send criminals to the colonies in the new world: america won independence = uk could no longer send criminals. John howard (1726 1790), the state of the prison (1777) Alexis de tocqueville (1805 1859), on the penitentiary system in united states and its application to france (1833) Michel foucault (1926 1984), discipline and punish (1975: many actors (teachers, parents, etc) make us normal . Pennsylvania model (eastern state penitentiary: prison was profoundly religious = provided conditions for the criminal to meet w/ god, realize their remorse.
