SOC209H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Populism, Butter Knife
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Lecture 3: thinking critically about law and crime. Why do we punish people? to send a message to everyone else to enforce authority over other people ensure social control without which there would be chaotic anarchy (no consequences) retribution: they deserve it, they did something bad. Incapacitation o state power, symbolic representation symbolic: denouncement of act communicated to offenders and society through use of punishment imprisonment, deprivation of liberty. Getting the problem elements (i. e. criminals) out of society . Rehabilitation o ex. drug addiction: solve the addiction solve the crime. Does it work? assumes people can change (ex. correctional programs) Work : rate at which you reoffend, is it cost effective/cheaper than prison does it work for reducing crime depends, works/helps in general as its better than not doing it doesn"t work: cases of sex offenders (sex offender programs) They have to decide not to do it.
