CRCJ 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Stanford Prison Experiment, Populism, Pierre Trudeau

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Criminology and Criminal Justice
• Course: CRCJ 1000
• Professor: Jeffrey Monaghan

Document Summary

The decline in the death penalty with exception of the states is a indication of rights discourse. The state itself should not have the power to kill its citizen. Formally ended in 1976 by pierre trudeau government through an act of parliament. Strong public support taking it off the books seemed uncivilized. The mulroney government tried to reinstate the death penalty. Back benches for harper government to legalize death penalty. Lessen the restrictions to release criminals back to their country where the death penalty is in effect. Penology: practice of punishment are grounded in politics and society not grounded to morality. Key components: offence, censure(public acknnolwdgment of wrong doing) and sanction what they say about society societal values and morals. Newburn critique: is trying to demonstrate that these theories do not exist by themselves, they often overlap and function in different ways. The rise of retributivism easily (tough on crime) Pays little attention to the context of the offence itself.