SOC371H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Supermax Prison, Mass Incarceration, Total Institution
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Lecture notes: hyper incarceration and the punitive turn. Outline the main arguments of the society of captives and total institutions. Discuss rise of mass incarceration in the usa and explanations for it. Discuss the development of supermax prisons king. Compare the usa with canada meyer and o"malley, moore and hannah-moffat. Identify and explain, using moore and hannah-moffat and meyer and o"malley, why. In your answer, identify and explain the main arguments of the two and provide at least 2 examples of how these may be applicable to current penal practices. Concerns over risk and risk prevention go hand in hand with the punitive turn. This is a managerial task that is about regulating deviance not responding to individual deviants. Risk based thinking can form targeted governance. Risk is not about normalization but about sorting and grouping individuals based on like characteristics.
