PSY371H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Mass Media, If And Only If, Unbridled
Document Summary
The changing penal landscape, risk and the punitive turn how punishment has changed from coporal punishment, evolution in the way punishment operates birth of the prison, discipline on and scaffold. New penalty, risk based thinking in how we manage inmate, critical of new penology. Inside and outside the prison system, same as other social institutions, psychiatry. Explain how strategies and way we control individuals can expand past the confines in jail. Knowing the individual is crucial, behaviours, how they think in order to change them. We watch inmates and document everything they do, the file is them fundamentally as a person. Aids in the production of knowledge, the prison is a archetype on how society operates, structure in which it operates. Target is the soul not the body, make person more socially palatable. Structure them and organize them, efficiently and control and management.
