CRM 2306 Lecture Notes - Subsistence Economy, Mercantilism

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Criminology
• Course: CRM 2306
• Professor: Justin Piche

Document Summary

The birth of the modern prison and the role of state punishment. Overview: bridge-in exercise, locating punishment within economic restructuring (rusche, 1980[1933]) Emergence of capitalism: locating punishment within scientific discourses (foucault, 1977[1975]) Away from the body, towards the soul: bridge-out exercise. First to try and place crime and punishment in a social context. Tried to look at why certain punishment practices emerge in certain context. How do we make sense of prisons, where do they come from. When we change punishment practices it is partially explained by the labour patterns and economic structure in given societies. When people are presented with these tough sanctions the idea is that it deters people even in these hard times within society (theory) To understand shifts in penality we must look beyond the causes of crime" and situate punishment practices within the social contexts in which they emerge.