CIN240H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Walter Wanger, Michel Foucault, Louis De Rochemont
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Depression of the 1930s saw a different public attitude towards prisons (way more people locked up) The prison community is published in 1939, turning prisonization (taking on the culture of the penitentiary) into a thing. No goods sold between prisons, no transportation. Ideas of reformation, rehabilitation in prison films. One warden didn"t like one of these wb films, sued and lost. Huge social impact the prison was appealing to popular audiences because it is a part of society at large, the prison functioned as an allegory of the depression. Reading michel foucault, discipline and punish the birth of the prison less than a century separates them, but over this time, there were great scandals of justice and reform throughout europe and america. New moral/political justification of the right to punish new age for penal justice focuses on two interrelated transformations : the disappearance of torture and punishment as a public spectacle.
