CRM 306 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Community Service, Social Contract, Social Stigma
Document Summary
Overall (2015-16) 120,568 adult offenders under correctional supervision custody (~20%) or community supervision (~80%) Looking at incarceration (sentenced custody, remand, other temporary detention) People in detention who are awaiting an appearance in court (pretrial detention hearing or trial) , who have not been convicted of a crime. People who have been convicted of a crime and are serving time in custody (i. e. in a prison or jail). 2015/16 almost 15,000 adults in remand vs. 10,091in sentenced custody. Admissions to corrections by type of sentence 2015-16. Penality": the network of laws, processes, discourses, representations and institutions which make up the penal realm . Durkheim: moral and social dimension -social solidarity, consensus approach. Marxists: instrument of the state, regulate disadvantaged (social and economic) classes. Foucault: disciplinary power widens networks of social regulation and justifies (reinforces) criminal justice enterprise. Elias: the civilizing" process -- changing sensibilities and cultural mentalities.
