CRM 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Guard Tower, Solitary Confinement, Prison Officer

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Criminology
• Course: CRM 100
• Professor: Dan Horner

Document Summary

Prisons holding people accountable and also safe. They change to reflect deeper social changes in our society. Prisons as a snapshot of social problems: Protecting society, punishing those who are antisocial/deviant, or helping to fix their problems. Disproportionate presence of people of colour, indigenous people, people with mental health problems and addictions, poor. Changed during the enlightenment (rethinking of human nature) People could be reformed and become productive people. People engaged in criminal behaviour because their lives were chaotic. Give them a peaceful and quiet place would help them. Lock-up: a place to separate offenders from general population. Auburn model communal work and meals. Guard tower in centre, could keep eyes on whole institution because of circular shape. I(cid:374)(cid:373)ates did(cid:374)"t k(cid:374)o(cid:449) (cid:449)he(cid:374) they (cid:449)ere (cid:271)ei(cid:374)g (cid:449)at(cid:272)hed, al(cid:449)ays felt like they (cid:449)ere u(cid:374)der (cid:272)o(cid:374)sta(cid:374)t sur(cid:448)eilla(cid:374)(cid:272)e. Panopticon is metaphor for how surveillance works today (always feeling like being watched)