SACR 2620 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Moral Panic, Jeremy Bentham, Cesare Beccaria
17 Dec 2018
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Chapter 3: control philosophy and criminal justice policy. Indicator that has failed; individuals who have previously been in the criminal justice system but have repeated the same crime. Crime control philosophies: justice model, deterrence, selective incapacitation, rehabilitation approach, aboriginal justice, restorative justice. Included ending early release programs and limited treatment for offenders (with the discretion of the judges: latitude among judges. Takes away all discretion from a judge: supports alternative sanctions to incarceration, especially for minor offences, sentences are based on the least ristrictorive sentencing. Deterrence (focus is to prevent offenders from reoffending and to discourage others from engaging in crime. Jeremy bentham: calculate amount of punishment required to punish and deter, argued for carceral punishment (imprisonment) he thought this approach would be more humane. Deterrence: criminal sanction: deterrence is the threat of punishment or material deprivation, objective and perceptual phenomenon, direct relationship between severity, certainty, and swiftness of punishment.
