CRM 4302 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Anomie, Human Behavior, Surplus Labour

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Criminology
• Course: CRM 4302
• Professor: Vajmeh Tabibi

Document Summary

4 key changes that cohen recognizes is happening in the mid 80s: an increasing involvement of the state in the business of deviancy control/ parallel to what. He provides 3 models: uneven progress (progressive, good (but complicated) intentions-disastrous consequences (liberal thinkers, discipline and mystification (radical/ critical) The for(cid:272)e for (cid:272)ha(cid:374)ge is (cid:858)refor(cid:373)(cid:859) (cid:373)oti(cid:448)ated (cid:271)(cid:455) (cid:271)e(cid:374)e(cid:448)ole(cid:374)(cid:272)e a(cid:374)d hu(cid:373)a(cid:374)itaria(cid:374)is(cid:373)/ rational beings, punishment cannot be barbaric: beaucariat was the father of criminology/ heavily influenced the penal code that developed in europe, changing the individual and the environment. More resources, more classification, more experts and by the application of science, the system could be humanized: good intentions are taken entirely at face value- but become radically separated from their outcomes. Asylum= custodial institutions, overcrowded, not rehab: but why asylums continue to exist, (cid:862)the gap (cid:271)et(cid:449)ee(cid:374) the pro(cid:373)ise a(cid:374)d fulfil(cid:373)e(cid:374)t (cid:449)as e(cid:374)or(cid:373)ous(cid:863)/ (cid:373)a(cid:374)(cid:455) people ad(cid:373)itted themselves into asylums.