CRM 2306 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Sentenced, Sentience, Social Justice
4 Oct 2017
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September 20th exam prep 230 to 4 tueday 27th 413 ftx. Implies that the prison has a function, which ends up being restraining the offender of the law: prison as an apparatus (as seen by foucault) a tool, another function; process of normalizing individuals sent to prison. In this new prison, we have people who have broken the law but who have also become objects (we study them, collect information from them) Idea to retrain people so that they become repentant/normalized citizens: ultimate goal of new rehabilitationism = normalization (re-moralized, offender of law + object of science (study every part of their lives) docile, retrained (pro social), repentant citizens. Symbolic functions of prison: two main symbolic functions in prison. Illustrate consequences of resistance if you fail to obey norms, liberty will be taken away (look (cid:449)hat happe(cid:374)s to people that do(cid:374)"t do (cid:449)hats (cid:396)ight: conceal the fact that the social is the carceral.
