CRM 1300 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Michel Foucault, Profit Motive, Business Logic
6 Feb 2016
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As michel foucault has detailed in his examination of the birth of the modern prison, Punishment has been transformed from spectacular public ritual, involing acute application of physical pain, into a relatively hidden process of discipline and chronic suffering (1700s) This fits in with industrialized society for ppl to become as docile and productive as possible. By its own stated purposes the prison is a failure. Main reason is it is utilitarian if you see people lose liberty for their actions, it is thought that in your rational calculus, you will be less likely to engage in criminal behaviour. If people think about prison, they mainly think about being caught the severity of sentence has nothing to do with rational calculus, it"s more about being caught and punished and having public shame rather than going to prison. However, prison fails to meet the deterrent objective to any significant degree. Rehabilitation failed to meet objective of rehabilitating criminal offenders.
