SOC301H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Solitary Confinement, Prison Reform, Industrial Revolution
Document Summary
Jobs, low skilled, casual: more opportunities to steal. Focault vs beattie: both trying to show how its recent invention, not necessary institution, but a new idea, both answering question: how has prison become central to punishment, enlightenment ideals. Shift away from images of savagery, beating and inhumane things: not about one person. Individuals not champions: beattie - more material reasons for shifts i. e. crime being everywhere, foucault - bad historian and criticized for the way he picks his ideas etcc, help explain why penitentary continued after failures (beattie leaves unanswered) Idea of reforming (see through the models) dies out, people start loosing hope. Focault argues its still a place to observe and recognize, get to know the delinquents which can further lead to identifying and solving the problem: daily practice - not total disciplinary machine. Idea that crime is a disease that needs reform. Something needed to be done to generate revenue and make prison self-sufficient: reform will lose steam.
