CRIM 241 Lecture 1: Crim 241 - CHAPTER 1.docx
21 Oct 2014
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Chapter 1 perspectives on crime and punishment. Increasing centralization and professionalization of punishment and corrections, with formal agents of control assuming responsibility for identifying, responding to, and sanctioning offenders: expansion of surveillance and control over offenders, both in community and in correctional institutions. In this chapter, examine the perspectives on crime, offending, and punishment: correctional change, we can say correctional change takes place when 1 or more of the following occurs. Severity of punishment of convicted offenders is modified. New structural arrangements, such as the penitentiary are established in order to sanction offenders. Single sleeping rooms for convicts, segregating women and young offenders from men, building facilities for bathing, employing honest and well trained prison administrators. Sanctions should be applied to ensure pain resulting from the punishment outweighed any pleasure derived from committing the offence. Punishment should be no greater than necessary to deter the potential offender. Was a more precise measure of punishment than corporal punishment.
