CRCJ 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Rational Agent, Paul Bernardo, Dangerous Offender
13 Apr 2016
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Variations in punishment aren"t necessarily connected to rates of employment, but to politicians understanding being in an economic crises. Punishment is more severe when the political elite, is under the impression we live in economic insecure times: in the uk penal transportation was first used, by sending them to the us. American colonies decided to become a country. The uk could no longer send criminals to the us after this, which then created a huge problem of overcrowding, so they colonized. Australia and started sending them there: john howard (1726-1790) Studied the state of the prison in england at the time they couldn"t dispose of their criminal bodies. Credit for the notion of assigning prisoners to a single cell: it"s only recent that prison became more about rehabilitation than about punishment, there were two concepts of prison. Pennsylvania model connected to the meaning of penitentiary. You"ll be alone, isolated in your cell.
