WDW101Y1 Lecture Notes - Restorative Justice, Dangerous Offender, Deterrence Theory
1 Jun 2013
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Punishment: see syllabus - intentional infliction of suffering Socially approved punishments & socially approved systems of punishment. Systems of state punishments emerge out of systems out of systems of non state punishment. When identifiable states emerge out of society (government), there are preexisting systems of punishment that get taken over by the state & adapted. It"s normal in the fabric of social life that there are non state punishments -- they are socially approved even though they are not done by the state (i. e parents punishing children) Sometimes non state agencies carry out state punishments -- but we don"t allow individuals operating outside of the state to deliver punishment -- the state will connect with non state agents to administer punishment. The purposes and justifications of punishment turn out to be the same things - we justify punishment on the basis that it serves a purpose.
